12.03.13 (Tuesday) - Recent schoolwork. P's on bottom (including her Xmas list, T's picture of our family in the middle, and F's schoolwork on top)







12.01.13 (Sunday night) - Dog walk.

11.30.13 (Saturday afternoon) - Two girls reading about a Wimpy Kid.







11.29.13 (Friday morning) - The zoo with grandparents and cousins.





11.21.13 (Thursday afternoon) - Before the Land of Nod trunk show.







11.19.13 (Tuesday afternoon) - Winkler Botanical Preserve.



11.18.13 (Monday afternoon) - Borrowed Christmas gifts.







11.16.13 (Saturday afternoon) - Ice skating for P's 7th Birthday Party.



11.15.13 (Friday afternoon, Hirrshorn Museum) - Besties.

"She continued to have problems with her balance, she was no longer confident about it, and also she became a little stooped. Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared in the corners of your mouth."

. . . .

"The landscape was beautiful but passive. The emptiness of things rose like the sound of a choir making the sky bluer and more vast."

. . . .

"Like that, they were gone. All of it had come back so swiftly. The past seemed there at his feet, the neglected past. He felt oddly refreshed."

. . . .

"Wells had married again sure of even less. He had seen a woman's legs and talked to her in the neighboring yard. They had run off together and his wife had formed her life around his. Perhaps it was a question of that, arranging a life. Perhaps they would travel. . . They would plan trips together and stay in small hotels."

- All That Is, James Salter

11.13.13 (Wednesday) - Recent schoolwork. P's on bottom. T's in the middle (his line). F's on top (including her work from cartooning class).







11.06.13 (Wednesday afternoon) - Around.







11.05.13 (Tuesday afternoon) - Cox Farms on closing day (because the best thing to do with exhausted kids is to take them to a pumpkin farm??)



11.05.13 (Tuesday morning) - They woke up at 5:30 everyone. Yes, a.m. Avery's last day in town, then off to the Philippines (so sad).







11.04.13 (Monday night) - F's 8th birthday party. A sleepover. T fell asleep in his Fox sleeping bag, surrounded by 8 giggling girls.





11.02.13 (Saturday morning) - P's last soccer game. She scored a goal (and the team won).