Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Today was red, white and blue dress code for Catholic Schools Week. Chase wore his red, white and blue hockey jersey with his name and number (95) on the back. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he told her had good news. He said Joey from his class had won the school spelling bee -- a sixth grader won for the whole school. Chase says Joey is his best friend. Joey is the grandson of the previous principal of ICS, who was principal for 50 years. Then Chase said he had bad news. He thinks he left his water bottle in his math teacher's room. He was very happy to not have any homework again. He brought his math assignment home for Nanaw to look at, which is exactly what Mama and Nanaw want him to do. He had his snack and played on the computer and on his phone. Nanaw had to have him home by 4 p.m. because he had hockey practice. Mama was going to take him; she and Daddy take turns taking him to his practices. Both of them go to all his games with him. Tomorrow is the book fair at school, and Mama set up an E-Wallet for him with $35 in it to spend on books. Nanaw told him to buy Gordon Korman books, especially the new one, Slugfest, that they started reading but didn't finish.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Today, for Catholic Schools Week, everybody was supposed to wear pink. Mama bought a pink shirt for Chase to wear, and he looked really good in it. Nanaw was very excited to get an email from Chase in the afternoon telling her they didn't have math today because they had a trivia contest so he wasn't going to bring his math book home. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school in the afternoon, he was happy to tell her he didn't have any homework. He told her about the trivia game the school played. He said there were seventeen teams, and he correctly answered several sports questions, and Nanaw was very proud of him. Nanaw worked in the computer lab on her computer while Chase played Roblox and watched YouTube videos on his computer. Nanaw was working on her old/new book The Way Home but kept having trouble with the computer closing out her Word file. She would lose some of her writing so she's going to have to use the computer in the dining room. She wanted to use the computer by Chase's so she could spend lots of time with him. She'll just have to find other things to do on the computer so she can still be in there with him. When Chase and Nanaw got to Chase's house in the evening, they realized they'd left Chase's phone at Nanaw's house. So Nanaw went back home and got it and brought it to Chase. Chase sent her a text saying "Thanks." Two communications from the boy in the same day!

Monday, January 29, 2024

Nanaw was excited to see what Chase was wearing to school on Monday. It's Catholic Schools Week, with dress suggestions for each day, plus all kinds of special events. On Monday, the students are wearing pajamas. Chase wore Nanaw's favorite: black watch tartan plaid. This pair of pajamas also had a red stripe in them. Chase had fun with the whole thing. He also had to take coins (pennies and silver) to school for one of the fundraising projects. Nanaw asked Chase if he'd chosen his book for the third quarter book report. He said he was going to do the third book in the Island series: Escape. The county library only has an online version and it's checked out. The Columbia library has it so Nanaw was going to check it out. But she changed her mind, and bought it from Amazon; it only cost $7.00. When Nanaw went to Schnuck's to buy her newspaper, she also bought a box of cheese bread sticks so Chase can have one with his lasagna dinner this afternoon before baseball practice. The tree guys came today to cut down one tree and trim another one in Nanaw's backyard. When Nanaw picked from school, he told her he had two pieces of bad news; he would tell her one on the walk to the car and the other one in the car. On the walk, he said, he tore his pajama pants when he fell roller skating in PE. In the car, he showed her the cut on his leg that he said really hurt, and he didn't think he could go to baseball practice. After school, Chase and Nanaw studied again for Chase's history test tomorrow. When Daddy came to pick Chase up for baseball and hockey practice, he looked at Chase's injury and said he could stay home from practice.

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Chase was the only server at church yesterday, and Daddy said he did a great job. Sometime, Nanaw will go to mass when Chase is serving so she can see him do it. In the afternoon, Chase had a hockey game but unfortunately, his team lost the game 3 to 1. Nanaw came over for dinner and to help Chase study for his religion and science tests on Monday and his history test on Tuesday. They studied for a while before dinner in the kitchen. Mama made delicious lasagna for dinner. It was so good that Nanaw had a second helping. Mama sent home leftover lasagna for Chase and Nanaw's dinner tomorrow. Mama said Hunter stayed for six hours on Saturday to play with Chase. One of the video games they played was Call of Duty, a game that Chase just got. After dinner, Chase and Nanaw studied some more. He did really well on the science material and on the history also. He did well on the religion material but he didn't want to study the essay part with Nanaw; he said he would do it on his own. On Monday, Chase has baseball and hockey practice so Daddy is going to come pick him up at 4:30; Mama told Nanaw to be sure and have Chase dressed for baseball practice and ready to go. The second picture below is Mama "Samming" and trying to get in the picture of Chase.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Nanaw came over to see Chase on Saturday morning and brought him a box of Whales and a box of Reese's Pieces she bought for him at Dollar Tree. Uncle Mike and Aunt Becky came over to Chase's house with their two new German Shepherd puppies, Mika and Millie, so Mama could see them. Mama loves dogs, and she was so happy to see the new members of the family, her new nieces. To tell them apart, Mika had a purple collar, and Millie had a blue collar. Chase was in the Gascar chair watching the two puppies very closely. Sam, Sylvester and Tyler were really good, although Sylvester did do a lot of barking if someone wasn't petting him, and Tyler's hair got all puffed up. But they didn't do anything bad. The puppies were on the couch between Mama and Uncle Mike, being petted by both of them. After a while, Chase and Nanaw went into the kitchen for Chase to do his last three math problems for the corrections he was going to turn in to get his grade higher. He got a 77 on the test. The other day he turned in corrections for one of his worksheets and raised his grade to 84 from 73. After the math was done, Chase and Nanaw went into Mama's office and studied the 46 note cards for the Revolutionary War test on Tuesday. Chase did well on the note cards. Tomorrow, Nanaw is coming over for a lasagna dinner, and she and Chase will study for his religion and science tests on Monday. In the afternoon, Chase's friend Hunter came over to play. They played Nerf shooting downstairs with Daddy, and they also played video games. Hunter stayed for dinner, and they had Chase's favorite, Pizza Hut. So Chase was one happy little fellow.

Friday, January 26, 2024

Friday morning before school, Chase and Nanaw went over the words for today's vocabulary test. Chase decided he would do more studying for the DLR test when he got to school. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, the first thing he said is "I've got everything!" Andrew's grandmother was standing nearby and laughed and said, "No need for the checklist!" This was very funny because Nanaw always takes a list of Chase's homework to make sure he has everything he needs. He didn't really have any homework but he did one of the math problems for the corrections to a math test that he's going to turn in Monday. Uncle Mike was there taking down Nanaw's outdoor Christmas lights and her Christmas tree. Chase is always happy to see his Uncle Mike. Chase played on the computer and with his phone and had a variety of snacks including milk, Gogurt, string cheese, blueberries, pretzel Goldfish and M&Ms -- but only small amounts. Nanaw had to have Chase home by 4:30 so he could go to baseball practice. Uncle Mike is bringing his German Shepherd puppies Mika and Millie down to Chase's house tomorrow morning so Mama can meet them. Nanaw is going over to see them also and to visit with Chase. They'll do two more of the math problems.

Thursday, January 25, 2024

On Thursday morning, Nanaw gave Chase an assignment regarding Creeper. Last night, Creeper got left behind. This has happened several times before because Chase carries Creeper in separately and props him up against pillows on the bed. Then Nanaw forgets to put him in the bag of guys when it's time for Chase to go home. So Nanaw gave Chase the assignment of making sure that Creeper gets home. The first picture below is Creeper. On the way to school, Chase and Nanaw had a real conversation. Nanaw asked Chase if he was excited about roller skating in PE today. He said yes, and then Nanaw asked if the other sixth-grade class would skate with his class -- did they ever combine PE classes? Chase said it would just be separate sixth-grade classes roller skating. But then he said in the eighth grade, they combine the boys from the two classes and the girls from the two classes. He said they do that so that the girls don't have to put up with competition from the boys because the boys are stronger. Then he said the girls are more flexible. He said girls make good hockey goalies because they're more flexible. He said he watched Poppy, one of his classmates, in her hockey game last night while he was at hockey practice. He said she plays defense and is a good player. The conversation ended when Chase had to get out of the car to go to school. Nanaw was so happy that they had a real conversation and hopes it happens again. Chase didn't bring his math home today, and Mama and Nanaw told him he must bring his math home. However, he did have the test he got a low score on, and the teacher said he could do corrections for a better grade. So he did two problems today, and he'll do the other four problems tomorrow and over the weekend and turn it in to the teacher on Monday. He did his science homework assignment and then studied for tomorrow's DLR test and the vocabulary test in AR.