That bottom laptop there’s been with us for a while – Chromebooks are cheap, but this one survived years of backpack abuse.

He’s about ready to be done with high school. The cats are sympathetic.

We went into Raleigh during his 217th month to a video game tournament. Once we left, he found the comfiest chair in a fancy consignment store Sarah wanted to check out.

Sarah and the tickets she won at Carolina Beach.

Sarah and her theatre group during her school’s improv performance.

Sarah, Auntie, and Ted at the park.

Springtime pollen on my car.

Turtles we saw at the local state park.

Front yard after the first mow of the season.

Sarah drew the logo from the board game Avocato after we played a round.

Normally 172 month-old Sarah is pretty busy. But when she’s hanging around the house there’s a fair chance she has a cat and a screen.  Either of the cats will do. There are always friends to text or FaceTime. Our phone carrier says thousands of text a month!

Sarah got some new sneakers during her 172nd month.

She took a selfie with me at the park when Auntie Christine visited last month. The weather was great!.

Sarah’s month was super busy – she wrapped up this season’s cookie booths.  She also did sleepovers and a birthday party with friends and also found the time to do a Theatre Program improv show at her school. She also went to a 1990s themed dance at school! All the things.

Sarah also got to spend a weekend at Carolina Beach with us. We had a VRBO and got to watch the ocean and eat all the food. It was a busy one hundred seventy-second month!

Here’s the face of 18 years’ worth of months old Aftervictory posts. Ted’s looking good here at Clemmons State Forest. We took a walk out there while Auntie Christine was visiting us.

Like most birthdays, Auntie flew down to visit and we had all hung out for the weekend. Ted got cool video game related gear, clothes, and his favorite mint frosting chocolate cake!

Ted also had a birthday party with his pals from DnD/school. There was lots of eating junk food, video games, and some badminton. [L-R Apollow, Owen, Ted, Atticus, Jacob, Abdul]

Earlier in the month Ted and I went to Frankie’s Fun Park and gamed it up for an afternoon! We played some games and turned in tickets for candy, as one does. It was spring break week and too much of it was spent on homework, but we had to get out and have a little fun.

In other 216 month old news:

• Ted was sick last month for almost a week, no fun at all.
• He spent a long weekend with us at Carolina Beach.
• Has been very into making music lately on the computer and is super good at it! Like it all sounds like professional video game music! He’s shown me how to make songs with it and is fun experimenting with loops and tracks. This’ll definitely be something he can use when he’s at his new school next year building video games.

We don’t really have a traditional snow shovel, so we did the best we could with the tools (broom, mulch shovel) we had.

Someone in the neighborhood used a drone to get some footage of the streets heading towards Raleigh.