Free Comic Book Day

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013

Free Comic Day may have been a few weeks ago (that would be the first Saturday each May), but Daddy was on a "business trip" in Atlanta today, trying to get some computer services taken care of.  The end result was an unexpected trip to a comic book store we saw alongside the road.  When we walked in, they had a whole lot of comics leftover from Free Comic Book Day.

Now, for the record, Daddy was a huge comic book nerd "back in the day."  But not anymore, evidently.  How is it that I didn't know about Free Comic Book Day?

Believe me, it's on the calendar now!  Of course, now all I need is a comic book place to go to:  Atlanta is a bit of a drive for something like that.  Seriously though, we were thinking about subscribing to a Disney comic or something - it would be fun for Madison.  And Daddy too, of course!  Today, Daddy picked up these comics and more, and brought them back home for Madison:

Of course, just walking into that comic book store brought memories flooding back in.  Daddy was pretty addicted to this sort of stuff a while back, to the point where I still have a fairly large collection in the basement.

Today was a big day for Madison after school - the last one for piano classes (until next year, at least).  Mommy went ahead and registered Madison for another year, just because she's enjoying it and doing so well with it.  The challenge is to keep her going throughout the summer, which falls with Daddy naturally.  Today's class was more of a celebration - one with a bit of a western theme to it.  There were lasso lessons, and a great cattle drive as well.  There were also music lessons as well, of course, including the Camel Walk.

This is a different song than that one by Southern Culture on the Skids.  It's a simple one where the kids walk to a certain rhythm, and periodically shake their feet about.  This is done in order to get the camel poo off of them, which of course was a hit with the kids.  Shake that camel poo off!

Anyway, it was a bittersweet class, as are all these classes that are wrapping up.  We'll keep piano going throughout the next few months, along with the Summer Reading Program.  Also in the mix are other camps that Mommy is eyeing.  One is at the Quinlan Art Center, where we just were a few days ago.  A swim class might be good too, although we'll hopefully be at our neighborhood pool a lot this summer.

Daddy got home just in time to say goodnight tonight.  We read from her Barbie book before bedtime, and everyone was a little tired.  It was a long day at work, and things promise to be just as long as we move closer and closer to Summer Xtreme.  It's just a few weeks away now, and things are getting intense.  For more "research," we watched more Disney Channel comedies tonight, pretty much exclusively "Pair of Kings" again.

We went to bed a little later tonight - next week we'll get to sleep in all week long.  Sweet sleep!  Nothing better than heading up to bed, and doing a little light reading before falling asleep.  Maybe even a comic book or two...