December 3rd, 2024

Wake with a light head cold…

Yali on a morning rampage looking for snow gloves… once that’s happily solved, he hustles into the kitchen to prepare himself a PBJ for Yellow Bird…

**BANG CRASH WHACK CRASH!!**

“Yali… are you making a peanut butter sandwich?”

“YEAH! I’M DOING IT THE MAN WAY!”

Before the kids leave for the day… my doorknob is found liberally covered in a wad of shiny blue Aaron’s Thinking Putty picked up at Vat19… **giggles**

While Yali and Patience are busy learning photography and playing in the snow and eating brownies elsewhere… Mama scrubs and sweeps down the house before the plumber arrives to inspect the still-busted upstairs toilets

Puck hits the gym before a four-hour afternoon shift in produce down the road… the big guy negotiates with work to get off early for Patience’s studio holiday party in two weeks (thoughtful guy)

After another successful day at Yellow Bird, Yali and Patience return for math sheets as Oxbear prepares his latest 3D printed project, an abacus inside an Altoids tin for the kids

$375 of plumbing bills that evening due to an inappropriate use of paper towels by the offspring… and more plumbing work to come… erg

With the oven still out, Oxbear leaves to pick up chicken salad and croissants from Costco while I assist Yali and Patience in drawing a bath for Yali’s mosasaurus… hear him giving Patience instructions while I work at my desk beginning to feel increasing cold symptoms… “So, Patience, your one single job is to clean off the eye…”

A little hot apple cider vinegar for the throat in the evening…