Mallory – Smells Like Popsicles

“Those” Questions

I still call home almost every morning before the kids leave for school. Partly to make sure Rick hasn’t overslept and not gotten them up, but mostly to wish them all a good day and remind them of what is going on after school that day.

Mallory, who is seven weeks deep in her French class, always answers the phone with a perfect “Bonjour! Comment ça va?”, and I always have to dig waaaaaaay back to high school French to remember “Tres bien, et tu?”. Sometimes I slip and say “bueno” and get scolded for responding in Spanish when we …

Carson, grandpa, Mallory, travel

Grandpa Time

We are up north with my dad for a week – boating, paddleboarding, fishing, and euchreing the days away. Carson has become obsessed with making lanyards, and Mallory has decided that baiting a fishing hook and taking off the fish she catches isn’t very gross (but please stay away from me with that stuff!).

The weather has been OUT.STANDING this week. The forecasts warned of rain the middle of the week but the closest we got was a couple rumbles of thunder yesterday afternoon but it never actually rained.

Carson’s hair is getting that late-summer-whiteness, and Mallory seems to still be growing …

Mallory, mcb

Mallory – February 2018

11. My baby turned 11 in November.
Mallory is halfway through 6th grade. We just got her first semester grades. Most of them were pretty good – with the exception of one class.
A in gym
A in spanish
A in choir
A in media
A in math (which she claims is her least favorite subject)
A- in English
B+ in Ancient Civilizations
C+ in science
Grades aside – it’s been sort of a rough year for her – her class this year is doing a personalized learning program and it’s required a lot of her, and us. The kids are totally responsible for keeping up on their assignments and …

Mallory

things you find on your phone

When you have a few minutes and you start going through the photo gallery on your phone and find gems like this…priceless.
This will go in the “Save for June of 2024” album.

Mallory

You had one job

Mallory, oh Mallory! You can’t just smile for a picture.
(granted these were just test shots but COME ON!)

family, grandpa, Mallory

And then the summer was over

Here I sit on my deck, under my infrared heater and cafe lights, with Jimmy Buffett softly playing in the background and the sound of the high school football game in the distance. Rick & Carson are at the game, Mallory is still at camp (two more sleeps!) and I am enjoying a brief “silent retreat” :-)
We had a crazy busy summer (and spring!) full of baseball and softball. I counted up the games – 123 games played by the kids on their combined six teams (two travel, two spring Little League, one summer Little League and one summer All-Star) …

Carson, Mallory

Mother’s Day 2017

I’m sitting on the couch, listening to the oven cook my bacon, the dogs are curled up next to my chair, the boys are trying to quietly play MLB Baseball on the XBox and Mallory is still sleeping, hopefully (she’s come down with a spring cold and needs some rest).
It’s Mother’s Day. We are eyebrow high in the season of softball and baseball games. Amazingly the kid’s travel team tournament schedules haven’t conflicted so it hasn’t gotten too crazy (yet!). We’ll see what happens this summer if Mallory makes the all-star team again – might have some issues then. But …

Carson, family, Mallory

A lull

Another blog post on this lonely blog of mine, another blog post of me starting with “man I wish I wrote here more often”.
After many months of being very busy, we are in a lull right now. The kids still have indoor baseball and softball practices for their travel teams but swim is ramping down and spring ball hasn’t started yet. We have occasional nights off from activities but tonight it’s just Mallory & me at home; the boys are at Carson’s baseball practice.
The only sounds in my house right now are hysterical laughter from Mallory (who is watching some …

coops, Mallory, Marlo

Dog Bed

It was really nice of the dogs to let Mallory sleep in her bed with them last night.

Carson, Football, Mallory

Michigans Woman Up Front

It’s no secret that the band is one of my favorite things about football game days. My kids share my love of the band and the excitement the band adds to the football gameday experience.
This year, the Michigan Marching Band has a female drum major. The kids & I ran into her when we were walking out of the stadium a few games ago and I got witness Mallory be a little shy for the first time in a long time (she’s normally very irreverent).
How stinking cute are they?

Go Blue.

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