14 NOV 25

While Oxbear and Patience finish packing to road trip south in Patience's continued quest to achieve the highest level in Irish dance...

...Yali is feeling some dark thoughts about how I've banned him from the chocolate pie in the fridge... “Mom PLEASE can't I have some of that chocolate cake?” // “You mean pie... why do you guys keep calling it cake?” // **in great annoyance at himself** “For darn's sake it's PIE! We don't live out in the COUNTRY!”...

By ten o'clock Patience and I have reviewed her packing list three total times and she is fully confident that she has forgotten nothing...

Wave them off towards Arkansas with a stop first by the library for DVDs...

It must be some half hour later that Oxbear calls... “She forgot to bring her dress... we're coming back for it...”

Yali sends out the rhinestone monster of a gown to the minivan and they are gone again to grab a cheap lunch on the road...

An hour later I get a text... “She forgot her caboodle...” with all her hair doodling supplies...

By one o'clock they are finally and fully on the road and traveling towards another feis weekend with all necessary equipment now in their possession...

The boys are busy too... Yali has a rock-climbing playdate with buddies in Chesterfield Valley...

...and Puck has plans to meet friends for Korean BBQ...

By evening it's just Yali and me and the zoo... Yali is also very busy with fake blood and lab tech costumes practicing gargling death sounds from the other room...

While Mama taps into a family line of old English knights and forgets the clock...