Collette

Officially on break for the holidays… Patience spends two and a half hours in the Spanish classroom that morning while I drive Yali back home to…

continue housework (gel blaster guns and hairbrushes mixed in the clean laundry)…

Puck wants more ramen (his fourth bowl since Saturday)…

Yali flips on a “Gravity Falls” marathon, hysterics laughter, with a bag of microwave popcorn

achy left leg from chasing Yali and Patience in tight ovals around the inside perimeter of the house last night… screaming joyfully in attempt to escape…

Patience returns from the old school to grab lunch (a self-made turkey and pickles sandwich) before she and Yali saddle into the car… driving south for her appointment… Yali sings the “Indiana Jones” theme song to himself in an empty waiting room

Park in the mid-afternoon… kids running around in a light wind and very-very mild sun (high already 65 that day), climbing trees, snacking

Home for painting 3D printed models for Yellow Bird teachers while having hot cocoa with candy canes, watching “The Muppets Christmas Carol” (not very wintry out, but it is the season)

Tacos for dinner again (Puck request)… Yali swashbuckling around the living room with his plastic Pirates of the Caribbean sword from Magic Kingdom between tacos while Patience watches montages of earthquakes/tsunamis sent by “Uncle Elmer”