07 JAN 26

Adding mixed numbers is going so-so for the kids that morning...

Oxbear is in the kitchen packing jars of homemade pickled onions looking like pink and white marble under glass...

This activity is apparently more interesting than mixed numbers so the kids eventually meander in where Yali begins sticking thumbtacks into the cacti for eyeballs...

When Patience and I return from our weekly volunteer hour...

...Yali is chasing houseflies around with the fly swatter... “I'M GONNA GET THOSE FLIES!”...

And when books are wrapped for the day... we're back at the park where the woods wind back to the old Lutheran cemetery... we spend awhile examining moldering gravestones under a milky sky and a lightly warmed sun...

It's evening now... and the kids are immersed in some of the things they love... hornpipe steps and cardboard costumes and cheeseburgers...