Miser Family update: cozy version

 Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family.  This week, we're particularly rich in coziness.  Behold!

We've got  Y, "Cozied up in my lopipesa--a traditional sheepwool blanket from Iceland (purchased several years ago in Reykjavik)."  (Looks so comfy, Y!)  I'm snuggling up, eating soup, under a fuzzy blanket my mom sewed with/for me before I went to college, and Prewash is wanting in on the action.  L1's dogs have their own cozy xmas sweaters but of course.  My sister-in-law says, "Christmas shopping finished yesterday, got all the gifts wrapped today, now I rest with my dog Nixon under my weighted blanket.  L2, you could use one in Minneapolis!"  Meanwhile, with her unicorn pillow under her head, "A-child is cozycozcoze"!

And that's just the people cozy-ing indoors.  Some of us are appreciating warm clothes for cold weather:  I-daughter declares, "I am the coziest polar bear ‍".  B-child stays cozy outdoors in her penguin hat (and rosy cheeks!  Aw, man, I miss holding her so much!).  L2 bundles in her fur coat, while N-son shows he can hack it in just his t-shirt (although K-daughter points out, "Yall are both in camo pants and white sneakers that's so cute hahaha").  But when he's in arm's reach of his mom (and while Prewash photo-bombs yet another picture), he dresses warmly in a coat his buddy gave him and hat that came from L1, who has her own warm poofy black coat.  

The L1 driving photo leads nicely into this next one of our car this evening, two days after the snowstorm blew through:

This week we celebrated, as I'm sure you are ALL aware, the 51st anniversary of my husband's driver's license.  To celebrate this, we got our car its very own coat, as shown above.   I-daughter and I celebrated further, pedestrians that we are, by going for a walk around the neighborhood and scoffing at the poor drivers who had to dig out their cars: a snow emergency is no emergency for a walker.  And my husband, he celebrated by renting a car and driving to Chicago with N-son to see L2, because . . . well, apparently because when there's a lot of snow and there's a pandemic, what you really need to do is drive a car that has cruise control to another state.   That's why.  (Happy Driver's License Anniversary, darling!)

Not so much snow in Chicago, apparently. 

What else did we do this week? Well, we had to adapt our traditional Christmas bowling night because of the pandemic.  (As I write this, I'm acutely aware that the "Driver's License Dinner" and "Christmas Bowling" aren't exactly the norm in most families, but I can tell you that we here in Miser-land grieve the loss of these traditions this year, while doing our best to adapt somehow).  So, anyway, "Christmas bowling" became "Christmas Boggle".    And I-daughter would like it to be known that

1. she beat me in the majority (4 out of 7) of our rounds;
2. although when I did win a round, I trounced her but good, so the overall win went to me; and yet
3. she always had at least half as many points as me, so that I never doubled her score.

As such, she is super proud that she is competitive against her mom at Boggle.  (And her mom is delighted to have someone who doesn't run in terror when I bring out the Boggle board).  Also, I'd like to point out that N-son had some great, great finds in the Boggle board of his own:  he now owns "ego", and I-daughter and I bow down to his "loft" (how did we not see that?!?)

Even though I don't have a telescope, I'm looking forward to Monday night's view in the early evening sky.  Whoop! On Io! on Callisto! on Europa and Ganymede!  We're getting our Christmas star just in time for Christmas, and I'll take any good signs we can get. 

And that's the news from our family, which continues to be cozy in our adventures.  May you and yours snuggle, too.