AND THE BEAT GOES ON ....

I hate Daylight Savings Time.  I have yet to talk with anyone who likes it.  So ... WHY are we continuing to do this??  It's time for me to let the people who are in charge KNOW I want it to stay one time or another.  Don't care which.

It does give me an extra hour this week to try to keep building my relationship with our Tween.  He's mostly moody teenager with just enough little kid left in him.  I'm reading lots on how best to live with this change in him.  As well as learning more about sibling rivalry.

I usually retrieve them both from school and ask open ended questions.  Now I start with Deacon as if his brother is being negative, he doesn't always just copy him.  We continue to support our local food pantry although now I say " we need to gather a donation to drop off .... which day would you like to do that?"

I treated the whole family to a weekend at Cannon Beach for Braeden's birthday (teacher parent online conferences so no school Thursday and Friday). Unfortunately, the family cold finally caught me so I didn't invite them to come to my room to spend the night.

We let him open gifts when THEY were finished eating ... 

that's Dad's burger on the table (I was impressed that he asked his little brother

 to choose which gift to open AND let him help!)

Here's the happy boy we don't see so often any more ....

Here's his normal look .... NOT quite a snarl ....

And my new favorite look ... reading for fun!