Covid-19 Update :(

Wow - what a time in the history of our world. Nobody could have predicted the effect of the CoronaVirus spread. I'm sitting in bed on my Chromebook, no idea of the day of the week or time without taking a peek at my phone to check. Our family has been on self-quarrantine "lock down" since Mitchell's birthday on Friday. Poor guy. We were going to have a 14th birthday party at Rockin' Jump (a trampoline place), but due to the approaching spread of Covid-19, I decided to scratch that; wouldn't want kids jumping around amongst the germs at that place. EGUSD canceled a week of school before every other school district in the nation. We were at the SBC basketball tournament when we heard the news!

What we've done thus far:
Cleared out my walk in closet
Filling my minivan for a trip to goodwill
Picked tons of lemons from our tree and distributed to friends and old neighbors
Cooked: shepherd's pie, corned beef, sushi, tofu soup,
Screamed at the TV over 45's racist talk (Chinese Virus) and stupidity

3 Billy Goats Gruff

Still going back in time...here's when they used to PLAY! This was probably when we were waiting for Lindsey, who we were picking up at Pinkerton Middle Schoool. That makes our Troll (Emily) 5th grade, Billy Goat Gruff 1 (Molly) a 3rd grader, BGG 2 (Mitchell) a 1st grader, and BGG 3 (Mom) around 43 years old. Oh... to be energetic again! 

Now testing out how to upload a new video via my iPhone! In the old days, I think I posted from my digital camera ! This was a recent trip to Oahu with Jich ❤️ At Hanauma Bay

2020 Update???

I can't believe that this Blogger website still exists, but I'm so very happy that it does! I was FaceTiming Lindsey - now a 2nd year student at UCSB - on her birthday, and she mentioned how much she wishes that I had blogged all of the silly, crazy stuff that she and her siblings did when they were little. Well, I referred her to this website, and it's still here! Before the day of Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, and Twitter, this was the best way to post random thoughts and antics. I cherish the videos - I have some on mini-DV converted to discs, but we don't really watch DVDs anymore! Technology - love it and hate it.

Testing out to see if I can still post a video...

Well, the video work, but this clip is OLD! It's little Mitchell on a field trip to Laguna Creek High School (which he will attend in 6 months!). He was probably in 2nd grade in this clip

Visiting the Cal campus made the kids jump for joy! Fingers crossed that one of them will be chosen to cross that gate one of these days. :)

Emily

Emily is my loudest child. :)

The Ellen Show!

Ok, so that was tough typing from my iPhone. Plus, it only gave me a few photo options - all older than a year for some reason - and I want to post current stuff. I'm now typing from my laptop to see if the process is any quicker. My typing is a whole lot faster; I think my girls can text faster than they can type *sigh* Sign of the times...

This is Lindsey and me in downtown Pasadena (CUTE little shops there!) before he headed out to the Ellen Show. It was the coolest experiene ever! I was so excited that I was losing my mind, tearing up when I found out we were assigned seats in the front row, tearing up when she walked out, and tearing up when she looked at me and nodded her head in acknowledgement ("She LOOKED at me!" I told Lindsey, as I clutched her arm in excitement). No free stuff or anything, but I'm dying to try again next season.