Maycember

Have you experienced “Maycember”? It’s the end of the school year edition of the December holiday madness… events, parties, and more! It’s been a month since May ended and we’re still recovering. So instead of prose, you get a bulleted list of our adventures!

This month we had:

• An exciting field trip to Magical Bridge playground for Tycho (and Kristan)
• Viking Run and a new 5K personal record for Tycho!
• Tycho’s school poetry festival and fun fair
• Bike to School Day – Nova did the whole group ride route plus a bonus section to her school, all by herself!
• Three birthday parties
• Pancake hike to Mt. Tamalpais to celebrate Mother’s Day
• Kristan and Tycho doing a field day at Nova’s school
• Tycho’s 250 millionth second
• An exciting field trip to the Farallon Islands Visitor Center for Nova (and Kristan)
• Bike to Wherever Day
• The Spring All-School Meeting (little did we know this would be our only date night for ten weeks)
• Nova’s school camping trip, of which we only went to one night because then it was…
• Bay to Breakers and a new B2B personal record for Kristan!
• Opening day match at Kezar Stadium for our hometown team SF City FC (Roll Fog!)
• Tycho’s last day of SF Tots soccer (he was suddenly, and very clearly, much older, faster and stronger than the other kids… it’s weird!)
• A visit from Aunt Brittany and Uncle Sean (who did a field day!) including a bowling adventure with Grandpa Bill and Grandma Nancy
• A overnight trip to Sacramento with a visit to the phenomenal California State Railroad Museum
• The end of Tycho’s Dungeons and Dragons campaign (the squid defeated the dragon!!)
• Solo parenting for three days by Kristan with another SF City game and Tycho’s school art show
• …while Max was off in Monterey for some father-son bonding
• …followed by a visit from Papa Stan
• And a third place finish from Kristan at the very hilly McLaren Park 5K, in which she spent the hills mentally singing one of Nova’s school songs, Birdie in the Tree

I don’t even know what all we did! Probably other stuff too, like swim class (Tycho got his silver ribbon! One more to go!) and a Giants game. Looking forward to next May when the kids are in the same school and theoretically we’ll have fewer events to go to! (Ha. Ha. Ha.)