Thursday, December 21, 2023 It was the last day of school and I hung out with kindergarteners and first graders, which was pretty much fun. They were completely oblivious as to what winter break is, but the teachers talked about it constantly, so it must be something. We went to see the Broadway tour of […]
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 I kinda love that we are always going to things that we don’t know what they are. We find a theater and look at the series and say, “sure, why not?” We were driving to the Lyric Arts theater tonight and Keith asked, “What do we know about Kat Perkins other
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 We went to see The Lakeshore Player’s production of She Loves Me tonight. They are in White Bear Lake at a wonderful venue called the Hanifl Performing Arts Center. It is a new place for us and they put on a really good show. The cast was strong, the orchestra was
Monday, December 18, 2023 We don’t actually wrap. We have reusable boxes that we just wrap with curling ribbon to keep them closed. Each kid gets a different color ribbon every year, so they don’t know whose is whose until Christmas morning. There is very little to throw away after unwrapping, and it takes a
Sunday, December 17, 2023 We saw on the neighborhood news last night that today was Pei Wei’s (local Chinese food place – a fast version from PF Chang) last day. Alexander had recently come across a forgotten gift card and we were feeling lucky to have heard the news in time to use it. To
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Saturday, December 17th, 2023 Today was our annual Christmas party for the guys – Benjamin’s four friends from middle school (and before) and their families. One of the guys wasn’t able to come, but coincidentally his 18-month-old son has a favorite plaything that he calls the guys. It’s a stack of skulls that when they
Friday, December 15, 2023 I did all the laundry and cleaned up stuff and cooked and napped and watched TV and decorated and made a game. The party must be tomorrow.
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 Remember Keith’s concert last week with the outstanding singer? We went to see his dance show tonight. It was REALLY good and then really not so good. It needed an editor. There were 15 people in the cast and every single one of them was VERY talented. It was primarily a
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 If I wake up early, I am late for work. I have extra time, so I do extra things. Happens every time. This year, Thanksgiving was early, so we had a whole extra week before the big holidays. So, we started decorating today. 🙂
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023 We went to our friend Liam’s band concert tonight. It was really nice. We enjoyed playing “find Liam” among the 100ish players. He plays saxophone, so of course we were scanning the center of the band – the saxophone area. I found him first – back by the low brass! Of