another week in Story-land

I wish I had something terribly exciting to report. I don't. So I'm just typing. Because I don't want you to go away and not come back to The Story Tales.

If "mundanity" isn't a word, it should be. Mundanity: n. (picture of Mac and me) the art of living life in a mundane fashion with no drama or hijinks.

That's our life right now.

Mac goes to school. I do corn maze or other work. We come home. We do homework (which - not MUNDANITY - involves chapter books now! WOW!!). We go to football practice on Tuesday afternoons. We go to piano lessons on Thursday afternoons. We wait for the piano tuner to find time to tune our very out-of-tune piano (hopefully tomorrow!). We might start Cub Scouts after the organizational meeting on Thursday night so we think about buying the uniform (which is the only reason Mac is even considering joining). We go to flag football games on Saturday mornings. We figure out if we can possibly eat chicken nuggets and french fries one more time before my guilty conscience kicks in and I insist on something green. We give thanks that Chic-Fil-A is having a Pinewood Prep fundraiser night tomorrow night because it would be un-American or something not to eat more chicken nuggets and yummy waffle fries in support of Mac's school. We make A LOT of PB&J sandwiches because Pinewood lunch just isn't the same as Chapel! We count down days until Jimmy's first R&R in early October (NOT mundanity!). We play lots of Star Wars because Mac got a new Star Wars Lego kit. We count down days until Mac's November 20th birthday (it's about 59, more or less). We debate the merits of a Lego-themed birthday party and plan for the carrot cake birthday cake we'll have shaped like a Lego. We wonder if a platypus is a mammal (are marsupials mammals? This is why I could never homeschool!). We go to Gigi's farm and ride the four-wheeler and look for deer tracks. We come up with ideas for the children's hay bale maze at the corn maze. We debate whether we like the "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" book or movie better (book wins at our house). We read about knights and castles and talk about the castles we might see on our Christmas vacation in England. We hope for snow on our Christmas vacation in England. We learn interesting things from reading about knights, like mottes and moats and keeps and battering rams and coats of arms. We wonder whether the fishing worms are still alive in the fridge in the Zaxby's cup with a hole in the lid, but we're too afraid to check.

You get the picture. The beat goes on.

It's not so exciting, but it's life and it's ours and we are enjoying it. Mac loves football and he loves playing the black keys on the piano (those are the only ones he learned in his first piano lesson last Thursday and he's really taking that "practice 5 days a week" thing seriously so I hear A LOT of the black keys on an out-of-tune piano). He loves school and learning and his friends and his teachers.

Mundanity can be good.