Mini Board | Issue 94 Vol. 12

I’ve seen dozens of people at checkout with bikes, but the empty toy section doesn’t feel like a success.

Madeline Vega

Madeline Vega

CIRCUMSTANCE

The lawn sign did melt my heart. In case you didn’t click the link for hashtagprops.com in a previous issue or seen posts from other families of graduates, lawn signs are keeping the economy going right now. I don’t know where my school district got the money for so many lawn signs, but I happily stuck it in a planter out front when Betty’s team of teachers (four women in masks who couldn’t give her hugs) dropped it off.

Zoom graduation from Pre-K didn’t feel like an occasion for much pomp to me. I crafted a cap at literally the last minute and her brothers were present because her dad planned for the whole family to be sitting in the background. Like I said, though, it’s a Pre-K ceremony on Zoom. I had to tell her brothers several times that she had already sat through three step-up and graduation ceremonies for them, so it was their turn to be good audience members.

Bubble alert! Betty picked the red train bubble wand as her prize from the teachers after I picked this theme. —MV

With whatever this is right outside our door, science every day for Boom might be easy

Madeline Vega

Jari Jones, Calvin Klein

COUNTDOWN

When so many people are running around without masks properly covering their faces, it doesn’t seem like much is really changing between phases. While some families hit the beaches, others wonder if the state will make it to Phase 4 to open schools.

There should be a laughing emoji here. I took this picture knowing I could put a clipping path on it, but Issuu loses the clipping path...

ICE CREAMANIA

On a recent ice cream run, Madeline returned with a box of the re-imagined WWE Super Stars ice cream bars. This instantly transported me back to 1987 when the WWE originally launched their ice cream bars.

While the new bars are basically tasty ice cream sandwiches with cookie layers on either side of vanilla ice cream, they don’t hold a candle to the original. The first version was on stick and had a layer of cookie layered on vanilla ice cream with a delicious chocolate backing. My mouth waters just thinking about it.

Of course both bars have the same calling card of WWE super stars pressed into the cookie. It’s one of the only places where you can have The Man (Becky Lynch) and the Macho Man. So even though I prefer the original, this Good Humor remake will make me say (in my best Macho Man), “Oh Yeahhhhhh!” —LV

While he’s obsessed with Transformers, Boom was inspired to make a micro Brickheadz version of the Iron Giant after finding a unique gray piece. Then he made two more larger versions before seeing the movie.

Madeline Vega

PATCHWORK

I’m so excited to sew these onto the bag I run around with for grocery shopping, but I’ve been caught up in producing this issue. Totally going to do it before I make this week’s run, though. Check out all the options at pandemicpatches.com