Author: Mark

Tomorrow, my mom and dad will celebrate their 54th anniversary. That means, they were married in 1969. Thank goodness for Google as I can learn more about that day in history: So, it was a Thursday. Ok, mom and dad, why a Thursday and not a Saturday or Sunday? Oh wow, Mariah Carey was born…

Niko was off all week. He goes back to school tomorrow. Nina was also off all week. Nina goes back to work tomorrow. I was only off one day last week. So, what did Niko do during Spring Break? Well, he played lots of video games, watched a lot of YouTube, built lots of forts,…

Last Thursday morning, I had to get more cough medicine as we used up everything we had in stock. Nina was sick with the flu and a cold and a few days later, I was sick with something different. The commonality we both had was a cough. Last weekend, I was absolutely exhausted, and I…

Nina was sick a few days after Presidents Day with the flu and a cold. I hate seeing her not feeling well and did my best to cheer her up. Mostly, she was in the bedroom, and I was either downstairs working if it was a weekday or upstairs on the sofa with Niko if…

Wow, how about that for alliteration. Yeah, I know, unique! Okay, enough about the English language. Wait, I have one more thing to say on the English language, and that is Niko often asks us about homophones, words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Our explanation is always the English language is weird….