Jake gets 15 points for snack house guesses. Opa gets 4 points. Now I have to go figure out how to update my points balances.
Last week our friends from church, the Millers, came over to visit after church. Matthias and their boys had a good time roughhousing all over the basement. Kyle has been invested in ukulele lately, so he and I talked shop while Bryan and Tara pretended to be interested in ukulele. My uke skills have only had to stay ahead of one six year old I’m teaching, so having Kyle be excited to discuss chord patterns actually increased my current knowledge by about 15%. We’re going to put together a duet of Pachelbel’s Canon sometime. Probably.
Basketball season has ended, hurrah. We should have a week or two before track season fills the void.
Living Room La Comedia is alive and well. Some years I do better than others getting all of the scheduled shows in before Bryan gifts me a new season for Christmas. We had two left over from last year and fit them in on January 31 and February 1. We also got in the first show of this season on February 5, so we’re kind of La Comediad out right at this moment. Last Sunday was our very first family show. We watched Peter Pan with the kids and they loved the experience.
Friday we dropped the girls off at the Miroglios’ and then Bryan and the boys and I headed up to Michigan to visit my former roommate, Danielle, and her family. I don’t know what all the girls ended up doing, but they had a good time. The boys enjoyed discovering different toys at a different house. Bryan got to play some poker and we all watched India beat the USA in cricket. Watched might be too generous… Bryan and Wilson watched. Danielle and I were in and out between cricket and the kitchen. Mostly the kitchen, but I saw enough cricket to know some things about cricket now.
On the way home last night we took a 9 minute detour to drive by Zion and the Detroit house. I remember little about the neighborhood, which is unsurprising given how much we did not wander around the neighborhood. I did point out the parking lot across the street where we used to ride bikes and roller blade on occasion. I did not remember to emphasize the stoop next to the church steps that is apparently excellent for jumping. Sorry, Jacob and Jillian. The house we grew up in is the only house left on the block. Everything else is parking lots for the church and the charter school.
The boys were much more interested in seeing the ambassador bridge on the way home. They liked knowing that they were so close to Canada and asked several times if we could just go into Canada and then immediately turn around and come back. They settled for knowing that half the bridge belongs to Canada and claiming that they could see Canada (kind of true, but also it was dark). We have Flat August with us for this week, so I took a blurry windshield picture of the bridge to send back to August’s second grade class with Flat August, International Observer.
Today should be a quiet day and it will be nice to have an afternoon to reset before the busyness of the week begins again.
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