08 FEB 26

It's not yet seven in the morning... thundering squirrel feet in the attic... again... great...

A blur through church and Bible classes then sends us back again with a stop by the grocery store for ingredients for 7-layer dip which isn't actually for the Super Bowl because I'm not sure who's playing in it anyway and the Olympics are on...

...and home where Yali gets busy practicing pull-ups on Puck's pull-up bar to impress his big bro when he returns...

...while Patience takes an 18-inch chop to her hair to send over to Locks of Love though her initial response of horror at the new look takes awhile to get over... until she loves it...

Then we haul out to the Big House for a few hours with other gathered family where Yali tediously outlines all the webbing on his Spiderman suit with black hot glue as T watches the process...

There's figure skating on in the other room on Mom's new big-screen-on-a-roll-away-cart...

And Francis goes out back to count the rings on the tree stump from Mom's tree pruning this week...

Home late afternoon to the dog guilty... jumping off the couch... trying to hide the evidence that she ate a tray of wrapped cream horns left on the table...

And Patience gets busy leaving little “I MISS PUCK” signs around the house... whatever helps you get through the missing...