Barbara Thompson

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 I was home today, supposedly working on getting stuff ready for Maren’s garage sale and moving things. Instead I was thumpy, felt crummy, and slept a lot. We also have tulips blooming. 🙂

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 I was back at the same job today. I got hit in the head with a cheese stick when I went out into the hall to look for the kid who had taken the attendance to the office. He apologized for hitting me. He was aiming for a girl in the

Monday, May 5, 2025 Happy 35th anniversary, Donna and Michael! I worked for a middle school special ed teacher today. I helped out in three sections of 6th grade math (yay math) then had two sections of strategies. Strategies is a 21st century name for study hall. I think when we started calling it that,

Sunday, May 4, 2025 We are NOT done moving things (see below), but Donna and Benjamin returned to their real lives, where they do not work as hard as they have here. Along with Keith, they accomplished so much in a week! We don’t know where we live..some stuff here, a little bit of stuff

Saturday, May 3, 2025 Benjamin and I have been hit with inspiration. We love the promenade portion of our deck. It is a 30-foot long, 4-foot wide walkway from the chairs part of the deck to the grill part of the deck. We think it is awesome. We have decided that we should make a

Friday, May 2, 2025 Benjamin said today that Donna and the Daddy are neck and neck for being the hardest worker on this move. Yesterday Donna finished the three coats of paint needed in our new bedroom and today she set off on covering the ugly blue-grey and the uglier brown with a beautiful shade

Thursday, May 1, 2025 I picked up my backpack yesterday and I thought I would add it to the pile I was taking next door. Why would I need my school bag after all? Um, because I had to work today!! That thought reallllly surprised me. I had completely forgotten about such things as work.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Sometimes you don’t see it coming. Sometimes the white cabinets are quietly living behind the pile of stuff you don’t know what to do with and then they roar into disagreement. We thought they would go into the unfinished shop-type room to continue storing things. Benjamin, Jeffrey, and Daniel all went

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Today would have been my gramma Hazel’s 127th birthday. Donna went to Home Depot to get paint and thought to celebrate gramma’s birthday with pansies. She is so thoughtful. They look great on the deck. I spent the morning in bed with AFib. I haven’t done that in about six years.

Monday, April 28, 2025 We had our final walkthrough this morning. Donna gave me lucky ducks and lucky rocks. We went next door at 10am, we got notification of transfer of funds, and we started our monopoly on Oxford Circle. Teehee Donna brought salt and bread and wine, just like in It’s a Wonderful Life