13 FEB 26

It's almost nine o'clock in the morning... Patience and I still watching a travel documentary on North Korea while eating through a bowl of mixed vegetables and rice and beef scooped out with Swedish crispy bread...

Oxbear and Yali are leaving for Lava Island again meeting Joe's buddy for hours of running and jumping around fun...

Then Patience and I take a quick zoom out to Target for goods including a gift bag for Patience's first feis buddy at tomorrow's competition... she chooses a beading craft kit and a box of rainbow Nerds to welcome her into the feis-ing club...

Driving home sissy gets a little teary missing big bro... nothing feels right with him gone...

Then a couple hours of calls and messages and letters until somehow it's three-thirty and time to tear Patience away from men's figure skating for two and a half hours at the studio for a private dance lesson before assisting with the mock feis for the newbies...

Meanwhile the boys have transferred to the Science Center where Yali and his buddy absorb themselves in rounds of giant UNO in the game sector to rest their limps from playing too hard...