Putnam's Back

This is Putnam.  A few years ago, he was somewhat of a mascot for KidPak, and kind of a running joke too.  He's been in the prop room for a while now, but recently Madison has latched on to him again.  He was going to be the central figure of the giant version of Yeti Spaghetti that we made up, but we opted for a plush Donkey instead, as Putnam was a little too top-heavy.  Anyway, Putnam is now with us, joining the crew of plush animals and puppets that listen at story time, or join us downstairs when watching a movie.  You can only see his head in the picture above, but he is a rather ridiculous plush thing, but at the same time sort of taken on this legendary status because of his involvement in KidPak over the years.  He's been in several skits, and almost a video.  I'm fairly certain he'll pop up in a future KPTV now, just because.

Anyway, it was a good day today.  Madison had her classes, and her grade point average is climbing somewhat.  Although down from last year, it's nearly all A's at this point, and it's just a matter of time before it actually becomes all A's.  She had some good test results lately, and that's always good.  She's still studying Anne Frank in ELA, which makes three out of four years that these kids are learning about the Holocaust.  What's interesting is that she's learning about the Holocaust - again - in her ELA class, instead of history.  This makes me wonder what's up with the department of education here, not that there's anything wrong with studying this.  It's just that there's been more studying of that topic than studying something like physics.  I'm not sure what the goal is here.  I know it's good for them to learn about such things, but it just seems like they keep coming back to it. 

Moving on, I was working a lot with the youth program again today, and I used the treadmill some to go for a walk in Jackson Hole.  It was raining outside, but the weather is warming up some, and you can tell that winter has had it, and spring is on the way soon.  The Groundhog was right.  

Tonight was the latest episode of WandaVision, one that was basically the backstory for Wanda Maximoff.  It's super sad, but also important.  Hopefully things will pick up for this last episode, but it's been an enjoyable watch.  We also watched the first five episodes of "Secrets of Sulphur Springs," which pretty much sucked us in right away.

It was a good day today.  Nana continues to have her troubles, but there are just as many good memories too.  We just have to work them all out, and focus on all the good here.  The bad can really start wearing on you.  

We said our prayers tonight, and read from this book about "Black Spires."  It's picking up in speed, sorry-wise, and it isn't too bad.  We're interested in seeing what happens next on this one.  With Madison's increasing grades, we may very well be visiting there soon enough.