Life With Boys

From Barbara Beck: Winter Solstice, Christmas, and a New Year 2019! So much for which to be grateful. Wishing the whole family a joyous family-filled healthy holiday… however it comes together. News from here is that Billy and Ina are expecting their second child in May. Tests report she’s a girl so how about that!?!… Continue reading

Me: Tyler what are you making for lunch? Tyler: A Nutella sandwich – you know like peanut butter and jelly Me: What kind of jelly? Tyler: Eww – why would I add jelly? Me: No idea … Continue reading

Found one of the boy’s to do lists for the break .. Continue reading

Morgan to Tyler: How many pieces of paper do you have shoved in your chrome book? (Apparently Tyler’s chrome book is just an expensive folder) Tyler to Morgan: One Morgan to Tyler: that is way more than one piece of paper Tyler: well it is one packet, so it is one Morgan: a staple does… Continue reading

Busy night — wrestling meet at 5, concert at 7, homework at 9. Thanks to Ben Meyer and Rocky Vercher for helping Morgan juggle his crazy schedule! Continue reading

Analyze this one : dreamed last night that I had one minute to draw 100 animals saying thank you No, I do not know how animals say thank you – do they bow? Shake hands? Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence from the weekend Danielle traveled to Nevada for her dad’s wedding and a family reunion. A few days before the trip, Barbara Beck wrote: “Sounds like you’ll be going to lunch with Sharon and others on wedding day. Don’t think I’ll make it by then, but hope to find the AirBnb place… Continue reading

Hello – I hope you are still there. My son Morgan has broken his left pinky finger and we will be sent to a pediatric orthopedic specialist. His previous doctor has retired, so I was trying to get the insurance/referral pieces moving again. Barbara’s response when she heard the news: “Broken finger!?! Having deja vu.… Continue reading

If Matt wrote Shakespeare – “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou oh Romeo?” “Hey, I am over here” He says it would be a much shorter play that way. Continue reading

So Morgan has to read any book of his choice for his English class … I took him to the bookstore, you would have thought I had told him “this is the only book you are going to read from for the rest of your life” by the way he drug out the process. I… Continue reading