Thursday. May 8, 2025

Yesterday Nanaw forgot to write about Chase forgetting to take the cookies that Mama made for two of Chase's teachers to school with him. Nanaw and Chase went back to the house to get them but that caused Chase to be late to school and to get a tardy. So Mama suggested that Nanaw should have taken Chase to school, then gone back to her house for the cookies, then taken the cookies to Chase and school. That was a good idea and that's what Nanaw will do from now on. Mama baked cookies for the bake sale, and Chase remembered to take them with him to school. Chase bought a cake pop at the bake sale. Chase didn't have any homework so he went outside to play after school. Tonight is the spring band concert and art show at Chase's school. Nanaw has to be at Chase's house at 6 p.m. so they can be up to school by 6:15 p.m. The principal sent out an e mail today telling parents that he has taken another position and will no longer be the principal for Chase's school. This is very sad because he's a great principal, and every really likes him. Mama had a successful Give St Louis fund raising campaign. She raised over $10,000 for the school. Which will be matched by Parents and Friends, for a total over $20,000. Good going, Mama! The concert and art show were absolutely amazing, as are the music and art teachers.Mama and her friends took lots of pictures of Chase and his crew.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Today was cleaning lady day so Nanaw went over to Chase’s house. Mama said it was okay to give treats to Sly and Tyler. Tyler climbed into Nanaw’ lap and laid there to get petted. Chase was in a better mood today than yesterday. He and his friend Joey both gave their English essay presentations in class today. Chase thinks his went well. At Nanaw’s, they studied for Chase’s Wednesday tests. He knew most if the religion answers but they’ll study it again tomorrow. Nanaw told him to go over everything again tonight after baseball. He did really well with the science questions. Nanaw looked on Facts to see what his science grade is and was delighted to see it was 99. But Chase said it probably wasn’t that high because the teacher entered a wrong grade for something. He feels good about the math test and math is hard to study for a test. Tomorrow morning before school, they'll go over the study guides again. Nanaw is proud of Chase for doing so well on his studying.

 

Monday, May 5, 2025

Today way Daddy's birthday and cousin Joey's birthday, and Nanaw sent a Happy Birthday text to Joey. Nanaw went to the bank to deposit the State Farm preliminary check for her storm damage, to Schnuck's for a newspaper and grapes, and to the Columbia library to return a book on CD that she decided not to listen to. She has lots more to get through. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he was in a really bad mood, something that doesn't happen very much. He wouldn't tell her what was wrong, and Nanaw decided to just wait it out. At Nanaw's house, Nanaw pushed him to study for his three tests on Wednesday. Unfortunately, he didn't have any of the material for the religion test so they couldn't do anything with that. But they had Nanaw's science book and math book so they could study those. They went through the practice tests on chapter one in the science book, and Chase did fairly well. There were only a few questions he didn't know the answers to. He worked on the math study guide and got a lot of the problems done. Nanaw looked through it, and it seemed to her that he knew how to do the problems. He said he would finish the study packet in class tomorrow. About half way through the study session. Chase told Nanaw why he was in a bad mood, and it had to do with one of his friends not doing what Chase wanted him to do. Then Chase was no longer in a bad mood -- he was his fun, friendly self again. That's the way he always is with bad moods; they don't last long, and that's a really good thing.

 

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Nanaw has some kind of problem in her eye, maybe pinkeye or maybe just some kind of injury. She asked the doctor for a prescription but hasn't heard back. Chase's baseball tournament was rained out to he and Daddy went to church. Then Daddy moved the vehicles out of the garage and Chase played hockey in the garage. Tomorrow is Daddy's birthday, and he took the day off so he's going to take Chase to school on Monday, and Nanaw gets to sleep late. Nanaw came over to visit and made sure to stay away from Chase so he doesn't get pinkeye if that's what Nanaw has. Chase and Nanaw played in Mama's office with the guys, then moved to Chase's room to watch TV while he played softball with the guys on his bed. The Cardinals won their double header but the Blues lost game 7 of their playoff with Winnipeg -- so sad. Chase and Nanaw talked about a cartoon series that Chase liked on Netflix a couple of years ago -- Captain Underpants -- so he might watch another season this summer. He said he had fun at the baseball scrimmage last night and bur was sorry to miss Hunter's ax-throwing birthday party. For Daddy's birthday dinner, they had KFC -- Daddy's favorite. Mama baked Daddy's favorite kind of cake -- yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Nanaw made sure to tell Chase she couldn't kiss him good-bye when she left. So they blew kisses to each other. Nanaw forgot to take Chase's picture so she found another one to use.

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Chase and Nanaw slept till 8:30 on Saturday morning, after their sleepover. Mama bought a package of little chocolate Donettes for Chase for a special sleepover breakfast. He shared them with the guys, of course. After breakfast, Chase played knee hockey for a while, then went outside to practice pitching and hitting. Mama sent him a text to tell him the baseball tournament was cancelled today. But he was going to Hunter's birthday party tonight. Nanaw was supposed to have Chase back home by 10 a.m. so they hurried to get everything packed up. When they got to Chase's house, Mama told Nanaw about Hunter's birthday party. They were going to an ax throwing place at 7:30. When Chase heard that, he did a pretend throwing of an ax. They were going to have food, throw axes and leave at 10 p.m. Nanaw was a bit distressed about the ax throwing but Mama reassured her that everything would be okay. In the afternoon, Nanaw drove up to Manchester Road to find the St. Louis Bread Company restaurant where she's meeting Kate and Peggy for lunch on Wednesday at 11:30. Nanaw wasn't sure where the restaurant was so she wanted to do a reconnaissance drive, like she usually does when she doesn't know where some place is.

Friday, May 2, 2025

Daddy took Chase to school Friday morning because he was off from work to play in a golf tournament. Nanaw was going to sleep late but Uncle Doug called to invite her to have lunch with him and Aunt Rita so Nanaw had to get and get dressed and drive a long way out to the Yellowstone Café at Clayton and Woods Mill. Once again, all three of them had delicious walleye fish. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, they went to Chase's house to pick up his clothes for the sleepover and his bag of guys. Mama was going to Uncle Mike's for their adventure to the Battle Hawks game, followed by her sleepover at Uncle Mike's. Chase and Nanaw went to Sonic for his dinner of pretzel twists, cheddar cheese bites and a Sonic Blast with chocolate chip cookie dough. For Nanaw, they went to Taco Bell and got a Crunch Wrap Supreme with steak and a cheese quesadilla. They watched the mountain climbing movie Vertical Limit. Chase also watched the Blues hockey game -- they won 5 to 2. One more game with Winnipeg in Winnipeg. The poor Cardinals lost 9 to 2. Chase forgot to have his ice cream for a snack before bed. The first picture below is Chase at the Mary ceremony with his church buddy Henry in the upper right hand corner. Chase read a prayer to the group.

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Chase was  happy that he didn't have any tests today. He does have one tomorrow, in math. Tomorrow is also the day that the students bring flowers for Mary, either a single flower or a bouquet. Nanaw won't get to see Chase's flowers tomorrow because Daddy has the day off from work, and he's going to take Chase to school -- and Nanaw gets to sleep late. Tomorrow, Mama is going to a BattleHawks game with Uncle Mike, and Daddy is going to play golf. And most important of all, Chase is having a sleepover at Nanaw's house. Nanaw is planning a fire in the firepit. Also, Nanaw is going to try to get Chase to watch a mountain climbing movie entitled Vertical Limit. Chase read Everest, Gordon Korman's three part / trilogy series about climbing K2, so Nanaw thought he might enjoy a mountain climbing movie. For lunch at school, Chase said he had soft tacos. After school, he  came to Nanaw's house for about half an hour; he couldn't stay any longer because he had an appointment to get his hair cut at 4 p.m. He is the sweetest, most loving boy, and he makes Nanaw so happy.