10-12-19

Happy Saturday, Thea!

I’m so glad that we got the chance to hang out last night! It made me happy that you wanted to come along once you found out that I was going to be there. Even though you spent a lot of that time on your phone, we were still together in the same space, and I’m appreciative that I got that time with you. Sometimes, even when you’re doing your own thing, it’s just nice to have you next to me. <3

I’m really excited for volleyball to start! I know you’ve been worried about getting the details, so, I’ll be sure to get in touch with the school first thing on Monday, and make sure things are all sorted out, and that we have all of the information. You’ve tried a bunch of different things out, like swimming, soccer, and gymnastics, so, maybe this will be the one you love enough to keep with. I know that you’ll certainly be amazing at it!

The song of the day is from a movie soundtrack, which is why the cover art is so dang bland, lol. I’m not always a fan of cover songs, and I’ve never been a fan of The Beatles, but, this cover of one of their songs is really great, and I think you’ll really like it. ;)

I can’t wait for you to come home tomorrow, and I can’t even explain how much I miss you!

Love you so, so, so, so, so much,

-Dad

Backsleep

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

10-11-19

Hi Thea!

Happy day-off-of-school! I hope that you got to go and hang out with Mr. Bowen yesterday, and that it was a lot of fun! I hope that your school day was awesome, and that you got the last little bits of your homework packet finished. If you didn’t do your reading this week, we can work on catching up on what you missed, a little bit at a time. :)

So what do you have planned today? Something fun, I hope? Phoebe has a football game tonight, but, I don’t know that she’s going to be able to go, because she doesn’t have a ride. So, she may end up at home with y’all. I don’t know if you remember, but we went last year, and it was a lot of fun. I’ll skip it this year, if Phoebe can’t get a ride there, tho.

So, about the song of the day, today. It’s less the song that I thought you’d think is cool, and more the music video. See, when I was a kid, in the 80s, and all the way up to when I was getting out of high school, a huge part of the music industry was making music videos for songs. I’m sure you’ve heard of MTV? Well, back before the internet was a thing, they had MTV, which was a channel dedicated to just playing music videos, which are essentially little movies, that last the length of a song, that gave the bands and singers a chance to be creative, and showcase their visions for their songs. They still make them nowadays, but, they aren’t anywhere near as popular, or as big of a deal. At the peak of their popularity, artists would get really creative and talented directors to shoot their videos. There was a man named Spike Jonze, who worked with just about every popular music artist at the time, and made tons of videos. Almost ALL of them were really inventive and fun. Annnnyway, this particular song/video is by an Icelandic singer named Björk. She became really well known when she sang for a band called The Sugarcubes, with a very unique voice. So, this video/song seemed to me to be something you’d really like. It was long before they had fancy camera equipment and really good digital effects. I’m linking the video here, so you can watch it. I hope you like it. I miss you a whole, whole bunch, and can’t wait to see you Sunday!

Love,

-Dad

Slide

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

10-10-19

Happy Thursday, kiddo!

I’m so glad that Mr. Bowen rearranged your time with him, so that you still get to do that today! Hopefully you can tell me about how much fun it was, afterward. Your school has turned out to be exactly what we’d hoped, and I’m so, so glad that you love it there. I can’t wait for the robotics lab to open up, so you can see how you like it in there. It’d be really cool if we looked into some coding curriculum for you, as I think it’d be really fun for you, and you’re definitely smart enough to be awesome at it.

I hope that you were able to get the last two pages of your homework packet wrapped up, and ready to turn in. I know it wasn’t much fun to do homework on Saturday and Sunday before going back to mom’s, but, I didn’t want you to have to worry about reminding yourself to do it, or missing any of it. Hopefully you’ve been remembering to do your reading, and French lessons, too.

I hope you have something fun, and awesome planned for your Friday! It’s just a few short days until Sunday, and I can’t wait to see you.. it feels like it’s already been two weeks! Have an awesome last-day-of-the-school-week, today! I miss you a whole, whole lot.

Love you tons and tons and tons,

-Dad

Beach

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

10-09-19

Happy Wednesday, Thea!

I hope you’re having a fantastic week! I also hope that you were able to get the hot plate last night, so you could cook your egg. I’m sorry Mom was asleep, and that the girls didn’t know where it was. Maybe you could ask Mom where she keeps it, and the girls how to work it, that way, if shes asleep at dinnertime again, you can still get some food going. :)

I know that you said you didn’t want me to, but I e-mailed Mr. Bowen, anyway, to see if you can make up the event you bought with your Cougar Paws. Someone might get in touch with you at school, or he might reply to my e-mail. Whichever one, if I hear something first, I’ll be sure to let you know. I just really didn’t want you to miss out on it.

So, after we finish watching Serial Experiments: Lain, I downloaded all of the episodes of Madoka Magica! So, if you want to, we can review both of those for our podcast, then, when it’s my turn to pick next, I have two, already selected. I thought it’d be really cool to read To Kill A Mockingbird together, then watch the movie, form 1962, to compare them. It’s really cool, and is old enough to be in black and white, like the old Twilight Zone episodes that we watch. I got you a copy of the ebook for the iPad, and we can read along together, and take turns. ;)

I miss you a whole bunch of billions, and can’t wait until Sunday to see you!

Love TONS,

-Dad

Struggle

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

10-08-19

Thea!

Happy Tuesday! I hope you had a good Monday, and that your week is turning out okay. Sorry you weren’t expecting the dental exam yesterday, they didn’t give us a date, so, none of the parents knew exactly when it was going to be, either. I’m glad it’s all wrapped up and finished, though.

Have you given any more thought to what we should review on the first episode of the podcast? I was thinking maybe we finish Lain, and review that? It’s only like six more 20 minute episodes, so, if we tried, we could wrap that up in a day. Maybe Wednesday, since you have early release at school? Whatever we decide, I’m sure we’ll figure it out. :) I’m hoping that you can make the artwork for the podcast’s titlecard, and help me come up with the name. That part should be pretty fun. :)

I haven’t received any messages from Mrs. McCarstle, so, I’m going to message her, to see if can find out about which day/time we’ll have your conference. That way we can start planning our week around it all. Well, I hope you have a fantastic day, I miss and love yoou very, very much, and can’t wait to talk to you next! Maybe you can message me after school at some point today, if you feel like it.

I love You!!!,

-Dad

Bath Beard

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

10-07-19

Happy Monday, Thea!

Super awesome that this will be a short week… early release today, then no school on Friday. Next week will be even shorter, with conferences! I’m really glad you had so much fun at your sleepover, but, really hope that you got to bed early last night, since I know you were so exhausted.

The should be a really easy week, with one fewer school day, and almost all of your homework for the entire week nearly completed, already. I know that doing it over the weekend wasn’t very fun, but, it’ll pay off now that you only have to do one page of math two different nights, plus your reading, and, if you can get on a laptop, your ExtraMath. Just do what you can, and no worries if you can’t get to it. <3 Don’t forget to turn in your teacher conference form today! If she gives it back to you this week, please hang onto it for me.

We should have talked more about what we were going to do our first podcast together on, before you left for Mom’s. If we’d planned it better, we could have watched or read whatever we were going to review, separately, while you were at Mom’s, then recorded the podcast right when you got back. No big deal, now we know for next time. :) Have you thought of any ideas? Maybe the best thing to start with, would be a movie, since we could just watch all of it in one sitting. Any ideas? Whoever’s idea we start with, it’ll be the next person’s turn to pick next, then we’ll just alternate each time.

I hope you have a fantastic day, and, I already miss you sooo much!

Love you one billion,

-Dad

Cupcake

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

09-29-19

Good morning, Thea!

I’m so happy that you’re all coming home today! I hope that you’ve had a really fantastic time, but, I cannot wait to see you, it’s felt like forever!

I hope that you have an awesome day today, and that you remember to use the checklist I suggested you take to pack with. Please try to remember all of your clothes, all of your school stuff, your iPad, devices, chargers, etc.

I made playlists for all of the songs that I added in your posts, and am adding the links below. There’s one with just your songs, and one with all of your’alls songs. ;)

Thea’s Posts Playlist

Separation

I hope that you liked the songs I sent you, and that having these posts to read each morning has been some comfort for you while you’re away from home. I miss you a ton, and can’t wait to see you later this evening!

Love you millions,

-Dad

Float

We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.