December 27th, 2024
The morning is for lead test kit and organic all-purpose cleaner orders, stocking photo albums, paying personal property tax, helping Rose with embroidery sample and homemade blueberry smoothies, checking out two 19th century houses that B and Sun are touring this weekend, making ramen for Puck, etc., etc.
Oxbear returns from coffee with G.L. to continue fiddling with the Rubik’s Cube before returning to the post-rain morning for things like eggs and milk and a photo order from Walgreen’s
Yali and Patience have also cleaned their room – amazed – no prompting whatsoever before Yali crashes into Roblox online with cousin Ja for a couple of hours in full army gear
Oxbear and Yali out in St. Peters late in the afternoon… creating the next pinewood derby car for Scouts
Between many rounds of home work, a walk with Patience through a quiet, damp neighborhood, and a Bollywood film about gold smugglers
Puck returns with chips and dips after work to continue piecing together the tedious “Book Nook”
Yali stays overnight at “Nana’s and Papa’s” while Oxbear visits late into the night with brothers-and-wives in town from Nashville and Chicago