BenSpark Family Adventures

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01185 Allison now has a positive result for COIVD. I am still fine and so is Andy. Eva is still in her room. Because Allison has a positive result I am sleeping on the couch. So, now we have two in the house with COVID and Andy and I are doing our own things today. Andy baked brownies for everyone and I made a chicken soup. I also went and picked up things at the store. It has been tough not to be at Krav all week long and now I know it is going to be tough going next Tuesday. Getting back into the program after a week off is always a challenge. Oh, and sleeping on the couch is not that bad. It is close to hot and cold snacks. I watched some things that I had saved on the DVR and ended dup sleeping fairly late. It wasn’t the greatest sleep but it is better than sleeping on my futon in the office and having my feet hanging off the end of the futon.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01184 This fat little bird was sitting outside our kitchen window this morning. We are still on COVID lockdown here. Eva is doing fine but still in her room. It is weird having her in the room but not even able to come out. However, when she is home she often spends time in her room working on her projects and crafts and things. It is just so strange though. We had dinner from Jersey Mike’s today. Jersey Mike’s was running a promotion for the Special Olympics and Allison’s parents got us dinner because Eva got a positive COVID result.

  I was given a free digital copy of the new comic book, Season of the Bruja that was written by Aaron Durán and illustrated by Sara Soler so that I could read and review it. Opinions are my own. Here is the description of the book that was sent to me: “ Althalia Cabrera might seem like any other witchy Portland hipster whiling away her days behind the counter of a freaky occult museum, but there’s more to her whole deal than a trendy pursuit of the craft. Althalia is a bruja by blood-the youngest in a long line of powerful magic users from a long-ago culture indigenous to Mexico. In her twenty years, Althalia has studied with her loving abuela by her side, supporting and mentoring her use of the family magic, and protecting her from the darkest parts of their practice’s history. But just as Althalia’s inner light and power begins to shine, the darkness of the past finds its way into her world and strikes a tragic blow, testing Althalia in ways she might not be prepared enough to s...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01183 Today Eva tested positive for COVID. This is the first time that anyone in this household has gotten a positive result. Andy is the one who was sick this weekend and because of that we did not get together with the rest of the family to celebrate my sister’s birthday. It is lucky that we did not get together anyway. So, we had Eva and Andy home today. She’s been in her room quarantined from everyone and so for nighttime prayers we went and used FaceTime so we could all be doing prayers together. Because of her positive result we cannot go to the Father Daughter Dance this coming Saturday. It would have been the first time we could have gone in 2 years and it was also the very last one for Eva’s grade school career. We do have Father/Daughter dances at Feehan but I was really looking forward to this one. I know that Eva was, too. She even went dress shopping with her friends and she doesn’t do that sort of thing. She was so excited.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01182 On Saturday when my parents and sister and brother-in-law came over for a quick outside visit they dropped off some cupcakes. We had them tonight. Eva was exasperated that I stuck my finger into the top of the cupcake to smoosh down the frosting and then pour on some sprinkles. I didn’t want them running all over the place so that is the way I did it. Just one of those strange quirks of mine, I guess.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01181 I’m back in the office this Sunday. I was supposed to be in the office last night but because Andy was sick I stayed home. I didn’t have much going on today so when I got in to work I had not yet taken my daily photo. I took a walk around the building and found the desk that has more toys and I’ve had on mine. This guy has a giant Unicron figure on it and it made me think of one of the characters in the audio book series that I’ve been listening to. The character is a dwarf that wears a horn helmet but his helmet has one broken horn. Just made me think of him is all. I have this figure, too but it is boxed up in the attic.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01180 Tonight Allison went to the Feehan Gala at Gillette Stadium. She went with a group of the teachers from SMSH because their former principal was being honored tonight. I was supposed to be working tonight but Andy was sick so I stayed home with him. Allison had a great time at the event and we plan to attend together in the future. We were also supposed to have family over to celebrate my sister’s birthday but those plans were cancelled so instead we gave Auntie Tara cards in the back yard and visited from the porch for a bit. Andy was wiped out and he went to bed at 8pm without any issue. Eva and I watched the first X-Men movie. I can say that it did not hold up that well. It was okay but I am looking forward to what is to be done with those characters when they enter the MCU. I started playing a game today that I hadn’t played since it came out back in 1998. It is called Baldur’s Gate and it is a Dungeons and Dragons game that I hope to share with Eva. I t...