You know you’re a baseball mom when you buy 12 bottles of Shout Advanced Gel from Amazon Pantry to prepare for the season, but you also realize that you will be lucky if this is enough to get to the end of June!
Shout Advanced Gel
Kitchen Bar Stool?
Who finds it comfortable to sit on a kitchen bar stool to read?
Laura does. Every. Single. Day. I chase her away because I am working in the kitchen, and she always leaves her book sitting on the counter. I have to do this repeatedly and, yet, she always returns. We have many comfortable chairs in this house, but she always picks one of the kitchen bar stools. I am so confused.
Clematis
Andy and Laura built a trellis in between two of our deck stair supports for a Clematis plant. It is tiny right now and only has one flower, but that one flower is beautiful. I cannot wait for a few years down the road!
Big Feet
And, the time appears to have arrived. We bought these turf shoes the beginning of March for the upcoming baseball season.
John had *plenty* of space in them. He even commented that they felt big, so we thought that he would make it to fall ball before he needed new ones. That was wasted optimism. I actually had to help John squeeze his feet into these men’s size 7 shoes today and they are incredibly tight. I ended up ordering two new pairs. I wonder how long it will be before he sprouts up. As the doctor said, the feet get bigger first. If this keeps up, he will need new baseball shoes and regular tennis shoes by July. Lord, help me. Maybe if I stick him in a box, the growth will slow down a little? Please? Maybe?!?
The Station House
Let summer begin!
The School Year Comes to an End
It was another successful end to what can only be described as the craziest school year ever. Laura is officially a freshman.
John is officially a seventh grader.
We rode to the Big Tree for our annual end-of-the-year celebratory picnic.
While there, a reporter from the Columbia Missourian asked to interview Andy and the kids about an upcoming article on the recent “bike fever” that has swept Columbia during COVID.
Despite a little bit of rain on the ride back, it was a fun afternoon celebrating the end of another school year! Best of all, it was the first time that we have done this picnic ride with zero complaints from the kids. Cheers to the summer!
New!
The old dishwasher is in the garage waiting for the delivery people to arrive. I will not be sorry to see it hauled away.
Because we decided to buy a higher end model, Andy did the installation to save us another $189.
It is a Whirlpool and it has a removable, third rack for large spoons, etc.
It is time to dirty some dishes, so I can use this new dishwasher!
