42: THE ANSWER TO LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING!
I am now 42. This month is having a nice pace. At the beginning of the month the SpaceX crew returned on Dragon from the international space station. It was fun to watch them go up, and we were happy to see them arrive home safely.
I have been busy learning how to paint. I even got a new paint set with lots of fun colours, papers, canvases, an easel, and new paint brushes and paint palette for my birthday.
There have been many things to read about the back to school plan and we officially decided to do distanced learning with the kids at least until the next term. So they will be enrolled in virtual school.
The kids received their Knowledgehook math awards in the mail. They both worked really hard durning the school year to achieve the mathlete award.
Easton and I have played a lot of frisbee, water balloon wars, and other fun things in the backyard. Hadley has been busy learning about gatcha life and gatcha club editing. She loves it! It is so fun to see how she mixes her creativity designing characters, and editing their movements to songs that she finds. Almost daily she introduces us to a few new songs.
For my birthday we decided that it would be fun to bring travel to our family if we couldn't actually travel. The kids picked Mexico. So, for breakfast we had homemade Pan dulces. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/18117/pan-dulces/
This is a sweet bread. Quite tasty!
Then lunch was a black bean soup with black bean tortillas. I have had this recipe from a colleague that I used to work with almost 14 years ago. It is so delicious!
We decorated the house with fun Mexican streamers. Easton made a flip up Q&A; game with Mexican facts and Hadley made a gatcha online Mexican Trivia game with ABCD options for answers. They were both fun! We ordered a donkey rainbow piņata for the backyard and filled it with Limonada specialty Mexican candy. We took turns beating away at it with a baseball bat and holding it up on the end of a hockey stick for each other to take a turn. Hadley officially broke it open.
We played the game Mexican trains, had special Mexican snacks, some were quite spicy and of course cervezas. We even bought tequila. We watched The Book of Life and Roma, two Mexican movies. We found photobooth pops online and had fun with the signs and took fun pictures with Cheesy burritos for dinner. Later we enjoyed some churros and their cinnamon and sugary goodness. Easton made a cake, and Hadley decorated it with an ice-cream cone on top as she knows I like Dairy Queen ice-cream cake. However, home-made cake was best this year! I loved it! It was quite an eventful birthday celebration! I am happy!