Knock it off!

This morning, Everest came up with Daddy to visit Josh, as you can see here.  Everest is a plush abominable snowman we got at the Big Foot Museum last summer, and he's been a projectile hurled at Daddy ever since, when he's least expecting it.  But today, he was along for the ride up to north Habersham county, where Daddy was dropping off some video files earlier.

I made it back just in time to get Madison to taekwondo.

You can see everyone is back at it again.  There were a few testing for belts in a separate room, but here you can see one exercise where students were kicking the cushions in an attempt to knock off the small disc object off at the top.

The impact of the kick shook each cushion.  Students were told to do one kick on the count of three, and then another after that, and then one kick after that and so on.  Whoever knocked theirs off at the end the most was the winner.  You can see Madison kicking off hers here - she was one of the first!

In the end, even though there were older and bigger boys in there, do you know who won?

Yes, that's right - Madison did!  She knocked hers off the most, surprising everyone, including herself perhaps.  She did great!  There were other activities as well, including one involving balancing those plastic discs on the students' heads.  It was a fun afternoon, a nice relaxing one, as is the usual custom after a major testing.

Daddy, Mommy (from home), Bart and Chris were all on a Zoom meeting right after this, and Madison was in and out for a bit too.  You might not be able to see it, but Daddy is calling from Lester's Possum Park.

During the meeting, Madison was also helping out and even co-hosting the Zoom class for the younger students still training from home.  But Daddy's meeting was about Summer Xtreme, which is rapidly approaching. We made some good advancements, including nailing down the messages and overall theme for the upcoming Summer Xtreme.  Yes, it'll be "Summer Xtreme:  United."  It will have a space theme, so we can use our "Tribes in Space" material from a few years ago.  We're adding a lot of new material too, but the older material allows us to build on something and have a greater end product.  "Tribes in Space" was five years ago, so it's been a while.

We got home, and we ate more of the orange chicken that Mommy had made up for dinner.  It was so good, using juice from freshly squeezed oranges.  She's made hot buffalo chicken for Madison too, and it's also really good.

Madison is pretty much done with school now.  There's I believe one last meeting tomorrow, and today had a few.  She's meeting with teachers and students online, and there's not necessarily anything work-related involved.  She's just saying hello - and goodbye, in a way.  She did well for seventh grade, and the surprise is that we might get yearbooks next week.

She hasn't been as affected as eight graders, and certainly not as much as seniors this year.  But it still is weird that tomorrow is the last day of school.  It seems like any other day, and in fact this is May.  It feels just like every other day we've had.  It's cold, and it rained a bit.  And there are no movies or shows or ball games to go to.  We just stay home day after day, and do our best to make things interesting, and of course do our best to be as productive as we can.

I didn't get to finish pressure washing the driveway, but Mommy has been cooking up so much lately.  On the way home from taekwondo, we brought her some ice cream.  And we picked up three boxes of Madison's favorite pizza snack, which has been sold out the last few times we were there.  Yes, I got three boxes.  Because I've been there three times and there hasn't been any of that particular pizza, okay?

Anyway, tonight we stayed up late playing video games, while Mommy was doing ancestry research.  Madison and Daddy were doing the Super Nintendo version of Mario Kart, and an old game with Kirby too.  We've just recently opened up this feature on the Nintendo Switch, and I have no idea why we waited this long!  It's got all the old classics, and soon Madison will be well versed with all things Mario from that era.  I'd love to see some stuff from the N64.

We decided to return to Oz tomorrow night, as the Nintendo library sort of overwhelmed us.  It was fun though!  We went to bed pretty late tonight, just saying our prayers and getting to bed rather quickly, as we have to get up a little early tomorrow.