18 JAN 26

It is unnecessarily cold that morning... shades raised to iced windows...

Kids charge up after the church service with cups of hot cocoa before running across the frozen parking lot to Sunday School...

Oxbear is called away that afternoon to friends in town from Texas... so while he's in south city eating steaks...

...I've got my three at home for a remarkably rare afternoon of no fights amongst siblings while they all busy themselves in a quiet few hours of individualized creativity including Yali asking me to stitch severed jean jacket sleeves to the torso of his severed “leather” jacket and Puck ultimately texting for Freddy's...

The screaming and laughing and running around doesn't even start till seven o'clock that evening...