Five Brown Kids

We are in the middle of the carona virus pandemic of 2020. Four weeks ago who could have imagined? We Browns were all sailing along so happily. At a lunch a few weeks back I told a friend that since I had started working full time I was legitimately 50% less stressed, maybe even 80% less stressed than ever in my parenting life. The weight of entertaining/driving/feeding/cleaning up after kids all day was gone. Kids were all busy and happy with school and swim and basketball and dance and soccer. Tyrone was helping with after school and dinner. I had interesting things to do all day. It was dreamy...

Taye came home for spring break. Everyone else had work and school so he had a week planned of chilling after he turned in this writing assignment.

This is a work update four months in! I am so happy to be working.  Two things I love about it. Number 1 - I'm not home all day watching kids.  I loved taking care of my kids and house - I hope that was obvious!  I gave it 150% effort for a very long time (almost two decades) and I was just kind of worn out and bored.  I didn't want to spend the day at the park watching kids play or try to think up things for a bored 6 year old.   I didn't want to be home trying to clean up after everyone and drive them all around.  I was just tired of it.  And now I get up and help kids get out the door to school or camp and then I leave.  And when I get home Tyrone has cooked and picked kids up and wrestled Blythe and all other good things.  I only need to attend basketball games or help with homework and tuck kids into bed.  Which I'm happy to do after I've been gone all day.

The high school season is over. We all had so much fun watching Jaxon play this year. He made varsity as a sophomore! He started the whole season. He played all the time. He scored tons of points. Sitting in the stands twice a week and cheering him on with Tyrone and Scotia and Blythe and Willie and Pauline was the highlight of my winter! At their last conference game with four seconds left to go Jaxon scored a 3 pointer to take them into overtime. They lost in overtime. Season over. Jaxon was awarded All Conference Honorable Mention and Academic All Conference.  AAU season has already started. No need for a break. 

Friends and Family,  This kid who I love like my own needs our help.  Actually, he needs our money.