Random Thoughts 1/17/24

Posted on 01/17/2024 by chick
  • My daughter recently turned 13. It’s hard to believe that it was over 13 years ago that my little girl was ushered into this world by a snowstorm, and yet I cannot imagine life without her.
  • If there’s one thing I don’t like to do, it’s cleaning up after Christmas, but I have finally started on the task. I broke down all the shipping and wrapping boxes. I also got everything out of the bedroom that had been shoved in there to make room for my parents when they came to visit. Next task [sigh]: taking down the Christmas tree.
  • Having gotten a table set up so that my parents could have somewhere to eat during our Christmas celebration, it seemed a shame not to use it again, so we did a puzzle on it. We had lots of puzzles to choose from. The kids chose one with a picture of Neuschwanstein Castle in autumn, and it was a surprisingly difficult puzzle. Even the castle parts were hard, never mind the foliage, mountains, and sky. We all worked on it, though, and we were all together when the final piece was put in place by Marshall, who had earned the right through his diligent work on certain patternless parts of the image.
  • Livia recently brought home a stuffed “animal” in the shape of a mushroom, a Christmas gift from a school friend. She named the mushroom Amanita. Amanita didn’t like the way our household was run, I guess, because she started campaigning for the position of “Spiritual and Physical Leader of the Family.” Campaign posters showed up all over the house. Her campaign was successful, and she won in a landslide. Amanita is now our leader.
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