Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family household. We're in the last throes of classes now, and so I get to try to teach new material while my students ask frantic questions about what sections will be on the final exam. We're both racing toward the end in our own ways.
As days get darker and as trees get barer, our family has been deliberately bringing light and tree-things into the house. Here are our advent-calendar activities for the week, for example:
And although we can't dance like those actors (wow again for them!), we've got a bit of athletic prowess of our own:
In good health news, I-daughter (who had a bad scare with her eyes last year) just went for her optometry check-up and has a perfect bill of health. She says that getting her eyes dilated does make knitting harder, though.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly prosperous.
As days get darker and as trees get barer, our family has been deliberately bringing light and tree-things into the house. Here are our advent-calendar activities for the week, for example:
- Sunday, put up lights. A-child got in the way of helping, or got in the mood of helping, or got in the way, or helped, depending on how you look at it, but the lights went up, so we declare success.
- Monday, decorate the cast-iron tree.
- Tuesday, put out Christmas statues. We have an eclectic collection -- two manger scenes, a bunch of nutcrackers, and a couple of Santas (including one Santa who is probably sitting on a comfy chair, but he always looks to me like he's sitting on the toilet).
- Wednesday, bring in pine boughs. Okay, actually, we brought in the pine boughs on Saturday with A-child "helping" by carrying the flashlight and mostly keeping the light out of people's eyes.
- Thursday --- ooh, this was awesome. More on this below!
- Friday, make Springerle. This went super fast this year, maybe because I-daughter brought wooden ornaments for A-child to decorate while K-daughter and I whipped out the cookies.
- Saturday, mail Springerle to far-flung relatives.
The one non-decorating thing we did was on Thursday -- we saw an amazing performance of "42nd Street". The tap dancing! The costumes! More tap dancing! The blue dresses! "We're in the Money" and "Lullaby of Broadway"! And the super-sexy final dance. Wow! All five of us who went to see it just buzzed all the way home. N-son wants to buy tap shoes and take lessons. Truly, live theater is such an amazing treasure for us all.
And although we can't dance like those actors (wow again for them!), we've got a bit of athletic prowess of our own: - A-child is climbing the walls, literally. In addition to doing gymnastics, she's started going to a climbing gym.
- And N-son has joined a basketball league at the Y.
- And I'm still running with my various buddies.
- And my husband, who was complaining like crazy about his swollen knee (which is going to need to be re-drained once the insurance gets sorted out, plus have a "pillow" inserted under the kneecap), told me that he's "taking it easy" because he cut off the training ride after only 15 miles one day. (But he did ride the full 30-ish miles the next day).
J-son had a bit of a bumpy road this week with something hat happened at school. For a while it looked really bad, but I think things are settling out. This kid, he sure does have a lot of experience with starting over and trying again to get his life on track! (I guess that's all I can really say about that, though.)
In good health news, I-daughter (who had a bad scare with her eyes last year) just went for her optometry check-up and has a perfect bill of health. She says that getting her eyes dilated does make knitting harder, though.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly prosperous.
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