Snow day

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." Or what Christmas looks like in all the lore and literature anyway, if rarely in my lived experience.

We all enjoyed an unplanned Tuesday at home, complete with a wintry trudge to the grocery store on foot for breakfast supplies (G), an annual physical (A), movie time, Christmas-card writing, a board game, and more playing in the snow. Unfortunately an anonymous spoilsport in the administration decided some time in the last 48 hours that sledding is no longer permitted on campus, but the girls contrived to have fun anyway.

At the doctor's Alice was deemed small but growing steadily and healthy in all respects. She bore up well under shots and hopped on each foot satisfactorily. We feel lucky only to have seen the pediatrician once each in May and December this year -- we like her a great deal, but it's a blessing to have healthy kids.

With the neighbors