Thursday, December 15, 2022 SNOW DAY!!!!! We didn’t end up getting much snow, so we probably should have gone to school. Oh well. We didn’t. I didn’t accomplish a single thing except dancing in the kitchen to Christmas songs before making pancakes for lunch. Seems like a complete win of a day.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 *********Survivor spoilers! Stop now if you haven’t seen the finale!!********************* Tonight was the finale of Survivor season 43, and I cried. It’s been a kinda tame season – no one to hate, no one to really love. For some reason, the challenges have seemed really, really good, but for the most
Here comes Santa Claus Read More »
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 I pulled out of the garage this morning and the grown-up snow people were still sleeping. These snow people are quite demanding. When it snows, you have to go out and clean them off, because they just grab up all the snow and keep it. Now, they keep just lying down
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Monday, December 12, 2022 It’s not the 12th day of Christmas, but it is the 12th day of December – and my true love gave to me an estate planning class through community ed. It was so much fun. I bet you are not believing me and think that was sarcasm, but it wasn’t at
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Read More »
Sunday, December 11. 2022 Two parties on two consecutive nights is terrific! I slept in reallllly late (9:30) (9:30!!) (We went to bed at 1:??, so that was a solid sleep). I spent half an hour on my phone, wasting time, then suddenly remembered we were having another party and I needed to bake a
Feliz Navidad…Feliz Navidad… Read More »
Saturday, December 10, 2022 Today was my favorite part of the December – our Christmas party with the guys (originally Benjin’s friends, now our friends) and their families. This year was extra special because TWO babies came!! It was the first time we got to meet Mac – who at seven months was completely charming
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Friday, December 9, 2022 We laid in supplies tonight for holiday gatherings this weekend. I made a menu list, then an ingredient list, then a shopping list. I made Keith think of the same lists, and checked mine for complete-ness. We got everything on the list. And got home to think of a bunch of
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Thursday, December 8, 2022 We went to the Ordway’s production of Beauty and the Beast and it was spectacular. When it started, I had a passing thought wondering how many times we have seen it since the original Broadway production came to Minneapolis in the mid 1990s. I wondered if I would not love it
Tale as old as time Read More »
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Glass just dripping off the rod…. Nope. That is not how the song goes. But it could. Tonight was the last night of glass class and we added color for the first time. After our initial gather of glass, we rolled our hot glass in frit (sort of like glitter, made
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022 I rarely have a plan for the POTD, but this morning I thought I would take a picture of some of the artwork my 10th graders have done in the past couple days. Their assignment was to make a “tapestry” showing the reality of different aspects of life in the Renaissance.