Saturday, August 29, 2020

Miser Family update: making faces edition

 Life continues to be rich and full of acorns in the Miser Family Household.   On a whim, I brought home a bunch of the acorns that are lining the sidewalks of our college campus, and drew faces on them:

They're not wearing masks, but my husband points out that's okay because they're only heads, so they already have anti-bodies.  (Oog).   This leads us to this week's Family Fun Foto theme:  

Make a Face. Not your own.



We start  in the top row with my acorns, rearranged a bit.  Next up, my sister-in-law says that since the only person in our family who has seen her condo in Las Vegas is L1, she thought the rest of us may be curious: "I took this selfie on our balcony on New Year’s Eve.  (That is an actual photograph, well about 1000 of them spliced together, by a photographer friend of ours. He gave us the image and we had it printed on acrylic.)".    And my husband drew a face made from 16 Hebrew letters.   I helpfully pointed out, "In English, it's left to right, but his guy is write to aleph."

In the middle row, we present a crab face eating my grandchild, two awesome faces that K-daughter and A-child made from wooden blocks, and happy food:  "D baked cupcakes from scratch and made the icing!".   And we end with Y's reason for being happy:  "Just spent 30minutes digging my fingers through all the crud that was stuck in my vacuum cleaner. But at least it was satisfying to see if working good as new afterwards."  If you can't quite see it, her clean feet are pointing at the two pieces of the (de-gunked) vacuum cleaner with smiley cord, on a very very clean floor.

In row three, 

  • L1 gives us a dog smile.  (She posted this and asked, "Is anyone surprised").  
  • N-son is working construction with his brother-in-law this week, and he drew a happy blue face (paradox, anyone?) on one of the scraps of wood on site.  
  • And whooooo do you think knitted an owl face?  (I asked I-daughter if she did that just for us, and she said, "No, I started the owl ages ago... But this week's theme is conveniently timed 😀")  
  • L2 made the kind of face she makes when she's in a nail salon, although I have to add that unless it's the kind of nail salon that also has hammers and cordless power tools, I'd make a "help me!" face. 
  • And finally, the granddaughter of my next-door neighbor is so entranced by the acorn people on my own porch, that she's started collecting and shyly delivering more acorns to me.  I made three people for the next door porch, in thanks.  (These ones have hair, of a sort).

While my husband and I are in the (cross-fingers) last throes of battling bedbugs, I-daughter is wisely avoiding the inside of our home.  In place of church and waffles on Sunday morning, we've started a lovely tradition of going for Sunday afternoon walks, which I find so pleasant that I almost want to thank these little pests for instigating our new rambles.  This past week, we did a four-+ mile loop into a series of woods and marshes that are just a mile from my old home, and yet that I just discovered THIS summer, after 28 years living in my little city.


We didn't get to go on family vacation with my sisters and dad this August, but I-daughter says going on a walk through the woods makes her feel like we're fulfilling part of the family vacation tradition.  In fact, it's even more like vacation tradition because I am wearing my brown dress, which somehow I always seem to be wearing when we take the family photo, and which my sisters ride me for because it makes my brown sons hard to see when they stand in front of me.
See?  You can't even see N-son or J-son in this photo when I'm wearing this dress!

But summer vacation ended, and school has started.

We're all excited!  I had my first three days of classes.  From now until Thanksgiving, four days a week, I'll be teaching at 6:30 a.m. my time, 6:30 p.m. my students' time (my math class is a cadre of students in Shanghai).   The language difference, the tech issues, the time differences . . . they all make this a semester I'm sure to remember for many years to come.  I'm trying to deal with each little challenge as an adventure.  And, I guess, I'm fortunate to have lots and lots of adventures.  

And that's the news from our family, which continues to face our adventures with a smile.  With lots of smiles.  Even blue smiles.  May you and yours be similarly prosperous.  

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