Barbara Thompson

Saturday, December 6, 2025 We went to Lyric Arts to see A Nice Family Christmas. I think I laughed out loud more at this play than at any other. It was Christmas Eve with a mom and her mom, two adult sons, daughter, daughter-in-law, and brother-in-law. Nothing in particular happened, but everything they said and

Friday, December 5, 2025 That is the name of the show we went to in Hudson tonight, but it is also how I was really feeling all day. I got up feeling pretty good about my week subbing for Maren. She put together a nice packet of stuff for us to do and I think

Thursday, December 4. 2025 I met a kid with an unusual name today and asked him if he knew what inspired his parents. He was happy to share that they named him after a character in a movie I had never heard of. I looked it up – it’s from 1986 and has a character

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 How am I saying that? Because it’s true! We went to Theatre Latté Da to see My Fair Lady tonight and it was just stellar. ‘Enry ‘Iggins had a little bit a lateral lisp on his “s”. What?! The irony of having Higgins have a speech impediment was not lost on

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 After Woodbury Junior High changed to Woodbury Middle School 15ish years ago, there was a potluck before school started gathering those interested from WJH. The group continued to meet every summer until pandemic – then we increased the backyard visits! There are now nearly monthly gatherings. Tonight, we celebrated 60th birthdays

Monday, December 1, 2025 I started a weeklong sub job for my friend and neighbor, Maren, today. She is in Costa Rica. Yay for a December trip with friends and not kids. She has left wonderful sub plans, with easy to access smartboard slides. That is heaven for a sub. She also left five cherry

Sunday, November 30, 2025 Our old driveway was only a couple feet from our neighbor’s driveway, so Keith had to move all the snow to our front yard. It was not exactly difficult, but it added an extra layer of thought to the process. He enjoyed just having to walk up and down the driveway

Saturday, November 29, 2025 Donna and Michael were going to leave this late morning-ish to stay ahead of the weather. They were going to sneak to Menomonie in between snows and spend time at Emma’s. There didn’t end up being a between snows, so they stayed. Yay. They helped us (more accurately led the way)

Friday, November 28, 2025 I woke up last this morning and everyone was already having pie for breakfast. What a treat – for them. I wanted a turkey sammich. I waited a little while and went for it. I had turkey, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on white bread. That is my sammich. So good. I

Thursday, November 27, 2025 Happy Thanksgiving. I could have started with that, but I didn’t want to forget that Alexander said, “I’d buy a pig named Oblong,” today. We played the game Wavelength where you are given two “opposite” ideas and a distance between the two that you have to get your team to guess