06 DEC 25

The morning's hours are a quick tick of what happens on a Saturday when I don't have to bus kids anywhere...

• Dreams (actual dreams) of shopping for art supplies
• Yali and Patience playing “vicious puppies” before breakfast
• Finding one surprise IKEA Ivar pine chair left in the basement that the boys haven't destroyed
• Patience making mud pies (not actual mud) in the kitchen
• Oxbear discussing with me the fresh beef trade in Missouri
• Quick check on the live web cam from Juneau Harbor after a sleeve of quake activity up in Alaska throughout the day
• Yali and Patience enlisting themselves in a two-man snowball fight (Patience doesn't do so well... Yali maybe a little too well...)
• Puck begging Panda Express for lunch

Late afternoon Oxbear brings Yali and Patience up to church for Advent events including s'mores and a nativity petting zoo... “When are we gonna go?” Patience asks eagerly... “I wanna pet the goats! My hands are super ready!”

As a ghost of a pink sky fades into cold December evening...