Fave pic 
Taken from our driveway Memorial Day evening.
Highlights of the week We had my parents over for Memorial Day. The guys even got in a convertible ride before the rain came.
I’m the current president of our local library Friends group and curbside pickup starts Monday. That means I started tentatively planning and working on things this week. Exciting.
I received all of Gage’s end of year and summer stuff on Wednesday, but I’m keeping him in ‘school’. I spent 30 minutes the last three nights planning a schedule and lesson plans for each day. Sound mean? I couldn’t take one more day of hearing “Mom, what can I do now?” “Mom can I have screen time?” “Mom, mom, mom…” So he has mom school until the early afternoon. To entice him he has a list of everything we’re doing that day and a list of required chores. Once everything is crossed off he gets $1. I’m considering it a $5 a week allowance 🙂 I’m actually having a good time planning fun things to go along with the hard stuff. Today he tried oragami for the first time and is so proud of his little fox.
Reviews posted The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern Megabat by Anna Humphrey
Finished reading 
love this series! 
fascinating.
Currently reading 
In the mail 
Watching We finished season 2 of Bosch and loved it.
Plans for the weekend Our friend had a pass to Cruise through the Zoo that she couldn’t use so we’re taking Gage tomorrow. The zoo is still closed and we’ll have to stay in our car, but I’m more excited about it than I should be 🙂 It takes so little to entertain these days.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the state of what’s going on in this country right now. I plan to devote some meditation time this weekend to try and figure out how best to use my voice and my resources.
What’s up in your neck of the woods?
The librarian at Gage’s school is retiring (and moving to Hawaii, lucky duck) so Gage had quite a few assignments that were aimed at her retirement. For his art assignment he made these to book covers. She always rewarded the kids with parties – but they had to earn them. She went all out and the kids will definitely miss her in the fall.
read this for book club (we had a fun Zoom meeting on Wednesday) and I’ll have my review posted Monday. I really liked it. 
I posted my review of this cool chapbook 
This will mess with your mind.
from Mother’s Day last week. My mother and the boy who made me a mother. We have had limited visits with my parents, usually for a few hours once a week. They are retired and at home and we are at home except for a few necessities like Gage’s school work pick up and drop off, grocery store every 2-3 weeks, and occasionally the post office. Jason will go back to his office downtown twice a week starting June 1 and we might have to re-evaluate, but by then outside visiting will be easier to do so I think we can still make it work.
I found out that a friend from the library has written books! He generously sent me these two and I’m excited to take a look at them this week. And he has the 
Still in the early chapters but it’s interesting.
The soundtrack was great, story good, but the acting outside of two main characters was cringeworthy.
Our backyard last Sunday.
Obviously I didn’t take many picture this week if this is my favorite, lol. Spaghetti poked through hot dogs slices and then boiled. They look more fun than that they taste.
On Earth Day we spent some time in nature.
(this is a fave of mine that I’ll be writing about this week)
Razzi is usually up for picture posing, but I have to wait until Sammi falls asleep to get a good picture. She is such a cuddle bug.
A quote just to give you a taste of the seriousness of this book. “After you have defined yourself through your pen and paper and the handwriting you create with them, your wording adds the third dimension , one that may be the simplest to create.” page 39
This was a 500 piece puzzle that didn’t take long to finish once all three of us were working on it.
Yes, this was my first time watching this classic.
We heard the Easter Bunny was going to be doing a drive by and Gage went out a few minutes before I did. I went out just in time to get this photo and then stand around the cul-de-sac talking to neighbors. It was nice to see some familiar faces after so many weeks in the house.
Read this for my book group and it was a difficult read for me right now. I liked it, but my mind is craving fluff and fun right now.
We went by a friend’s house for his birthday and it was nice to see some fresh faces, even if it was through a glass door.
Oh man, I cried for 15 minutes around the 330 pages mark and I’m still sad about it. But I loved the book.
I really liked this one. 
I wrote a 
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It wasn’t as good as the first one.
A fun 500 piecer that Gage did most of.
