Saturday, December 30, 2023 We went to Artistry Theater’s concert Some Enchanted Evening (but we went to the matinee, so afternoon) (We scheduled the matinee months ago because we assumed it would be winter and it would be nicer to drive to Bloomington in the daytime snow than in the nighttime snow. Because of our […]
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Friday, December 29, 2023 When we stopped in Madison last week, Keith’s sister asked if we knew that their niece Samantha (and wife and daughter) had moved to Minneapolis from Madison the day before. What? No! That was news. I instantly knew that of course she had applied for a job, and weighed the pros
Thursday, December 28, 2023 I stayed up until 3am reading my book, because I couldn’t put it down. It was a beach read – total escapism to summer (Elin Hildebrandt’s The Nantucket Hotel) and I was just in it. I cannot remember the last time I did that. What a fun. (Yes, what a fun.)
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023 Benjamin went to a Russian grocery store in Madison a few weeks ago. He was going along and saw it and wondered what it was. He went in – there were a few other shoppers and one clerk and he seemed to be the only one who didn’t speak Russian. As
Tuesday, December 26, 2023 We played new games after supper. Yay. We got a Christmas trivia game that was really fun. We played a bunch of times, and it was always so easy to answer everyone’s questions but your own. There was a charades component – Benjin got candy cane, Alexander got boot, and I
Monday, December 25, 2023 We did a lot of splendid giving and receiving today. Alexander outdid himself and made me a cool shadow box of the three homes we have had, as well as a fun Etsy tree decoration and a build-your-own cardboard Disneyland. Benjamin and Sean always come up with great gifts – I
Sunday, December 24, 2023 We had a nice drive home from Waukesha. Not too many cars on the road, no rain, Christmas music playing, and periodic naps for me. We stopped in Eau Claire and picked up a pizza from Rocky Rococo for dinner tomorrow night. What good planning! I asked Alexander a few weeks
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Saturday, December 23, 2023 We had to travel to Waukesha to have a White Christmas (White is my family name, if you didn’t know) and that is the best kind of white Christmas. My sister invited me a couple weeks ago to the holiday family dinner she was having. She said she knew we couldn’t
Friday, December 22, 2023 Last week, our niece Rebecca texted and said she would like to connect with us while she is visiting Madison from Seattle for the holidays. We said okay! We got up and drove to Madison. We had lunch with both of Keith’s sisters, one brother-in-law, two nephews, and Rebecca. We had
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