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Morning Lodge. Someone brought in baked goods to our office (which I certainly need none of). The new guy - CAD/BIM jockey, bought in mint-chocolate brownies and ginger snap cookies. Probably more sugar in those two batches than our family uses in a couple of months.
Jr had asked the high school coach about being a student manager (sent an e-mail) got one back saying "let's talk Monday." Then got a follow up one, which Jr didn't read until Monday, asking if Jr wanted to go with the team to the scrimmages in Duluth. Nobody better bad-mouth Ken Pauly around me. He has been so nice to my kid, even while cutting him in tryouts. So different from what I see from other high school coaches.
Yellow school bus. The gear was loaded into back of the bus, or into another small bus that followed if it was a long trip.
Condolences.
Me 3.
Me 3.
I know a lot of people who have told me they are sick of people asking how they are doing. Kind of strange no one has asked you. Glad your Mum is at peace finally. I know you have posted for some time about how tough things were.
Our culture is very weird about grieving. When we were kids it was 2 days of wake, then it was 2 sessions now one 4 hr block of time. There is less and less tradition around death (at least around here) and I think a lot of people have no idea what to do or say. I had a patient who was in rabbi school and she told me the Jewish tradition she grew up with was so sit Shiva for a week and then go to the Synagogue every AM for a whole yr in remembrance. She said that way you met people every day in all stages of grief. THat is a lot of synagogue but I bet people are more well versed in what to say or not.
Funny story. Little gII has a keen grasp of the abstract. He looks and analyzes things in a very unique way. It's impressive at times and it will be interesting to see how that carries as he gets older. He is a whiz with jig saw puzzles. He is completing puzzles way above his age level. Anyways.......his teacher had one one on ones with all the students at the beginning of the school year. She was testing them on the basics. Colors, shapes numbers and such. One item was a simple horizontal line. She asked each kid what it was. Most kids respond with "a line" or something similar. Little g? "A really skinny rectangle".
How old/what grade is he in now? Would Connect Four be something he'd like? It's using checker pieces to place into slots, an expanded tic-tac-toe game, essentially. I was going to mention Monopoly, but I'm not sure they make an edition using large pieces. Would Sorry! work for him? A lot of the board games I liked either had small pieces or were for what I expect to be an older age than what little g is. (Risk or Stratego, for instance). Is teaching him chess an option? I don't know his limitations, if the board would be too much or if it's grasping the pieces or just a simple lack of interest in it. I grew up with a huge chess board with commensurately large chess pieces. I always liked it, but I think my youngest brother ended up with it when my dad died.
THis is a hootGood evening Lodge.
For those of you keeping score from home..........little g had his conference today. In math and reading he is performing exceptionally well. At the beginning of the year he tested at a level him and his peers should be performing by at the end of the year. His issues all revolve around the physical stuff like writing and using a scissors and such. His writing though has improved greatly the past couple months. Socially he does just fine. He has many friends and is quite popular with the kids at school.
Little gII is similar. The big difference is he spends a little bit more time in sit and watch.
Hungry Hippos was a hit all the way through the teen yrs until it broke. You just repetitively whack the thing. We like Blokus- this is a strategy game a number of people can play. Can be more or less complicated depending on the age. Dominos, Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Trouble, Clue. Careers is great if you like math.
