09 FEB 26

Yali's requesting The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack for math class that morning... feeling pretty okay over Greatest Common Factors even if it's still math and for this young Colombiano-Americano math is the worst...

Play therapy splits the day right down the middle between classes and forty-five minutes at the park as temps slide up into the 50s and Yali and Patience have a whole claim on the surrounding landscape of jungle gym apparatus...

Patience then gladly returns to figure skating re-runs while Yali begins gathering supplies and the power drill for new ideas...

...and I drive Puck's letter packet over to the post office under peach-brushed sunset...

...returning to discover that the dog has broken one of my new Fiestaware bowls while apparently hunting for beef... barely made it to its six-week birthday... reminder to self to stop buying anything nice until... well probably ever...

It's dark now and Yali is busy sanding wood and drilling holes and smashing nails into "whacking sticks" to fight monsters in his one-day-to-be-made thriller...

...while his sister is upstairs confirming with me whether or not the football game on the television is actually football...