Goodbye, September

We love soccer, but we also love it when the season comes to an end and our week gets to sloooooooow down. Not too upset, either, that neither of my boys’ teams made it into the championship and that mean our season ended one week earlier than my nephew’s season.

Monster Mash dance party while we decorate the dining room.

Usually I try to wait till October 1st to decorate for Halloween, but when we found ourselves (mildly) sick with (what had to be) Covid right at the end of September, I said screw it and the army of spiders went up.

Typical Saturday intense-lego-playing mess.

When your aunt decides to start teaching music again and gets a real piano, that means her favorite pupil gets her awesome, very nice keyboard as a hand-me-down! It took some Fiddleleaf Fig rearranging, but we finally made it fit.

Her haircuts lately have been *chef’s kiss.*

2025 is the year the boys have finally gotten to play Minecraft on the computer for one hour each on the weekend and they count down the days in eager anticipation. We’ve also added some computer chess time occasionally when I need a quiet hour and P uses Nessy for additional reading/spelling practice.

I’ve begged, reprimanded, and nagged for her not to climb on the trashcans (they’re expensive and I’m worry she’ll break or dent the lids inward), but looking at this photo I’m realizing: they logistically make sense as chairs.

We’re still not past the “fighting endlessly over dumb stuff” phase, but more and more often I’m finding these two together in a new sort of comradery that makes my heart happy.