December 26th, 2024

Patience has already spilled hot chocolate on her new grapefruit-colored sweatshirt before ten

Into the gray post-rain-mist of a later morning to gather a very late breakfast… all three kids wait at home together working on projects

Early afternoon…

Oxbear learning how to Rubik’s Cube

Puck leaves for four hours in produce

Yali building up his LEGO empire of Harry Potter and company at his desk in the basement

Patience watching a gymnastics drama TV series

And Mama… Mama gets an afternoon free of dishes and laundry and fighting children… at the library…

When I return from four hours of reading and writing… the rest of us drive to Mark Twain Hobby Center (a place my brothers used to frequent as kids) for a tube of model glue for Puck

Pick up Little Caesar’s on the drive back

As the kids prepare for bedtime, before Oxbear leaves for the laundromat, he demonstrates the solving of the Rubik’s Cube, after studying it all day