January 14, 2014

• Plants and Pollen

  Our house has started the new year with a solid two weeks of coughing. I love Texas, but cedar is now at the top of my 'Plants I Hate' list. Poison ivy's decades-long reign is over, due to being stationary and thus avoidable. Cedar has me doing things like searching 'nasal irrigators' on Amazon. Like I need Amazon sending me 'Products You Might Like' emails about swishing out sinus passages for the rest of my life.

  Happily, the kids seem mostly unaffected. I'm hoping to convince Cotton my sneezes are a superpower.

  The first half of the school year has been exciting for Seph. Dance, choir concerts, the school play, and a big trip to Arkansas all combined to keep her very busy. When she isn't doing one of those things, she likes to go to the mall with her friends, or go anywhere they'll let her order a chai tea latte. I'm not entirely certain what's in one of those, but it makes her happy to have one, and happy is good.

  Rone and Cotton are both still going to wilderness school. After the floods this fall, the park they meet in changed a lot, so there was more to explore than expected. Cotton is going to Scottish country dance after a few months of ballet, and is hoping to get to go to a ball. Yes, there are balls!

  Rone, in a complete capitulation on my part, is doing a class on the Minecraft Homeschool server. Some wily parents realized that other parents will pay $10 a month to have vague assurances that a few hours of the many spent playing Minecraft involve a bit of learning about history. This is genius, and should make them very wealthy.

  The holidays were busy, but it was nice to have everyone home. School had a two week break, and Chance took several days off to spend with us (when football wasn't on). We had Christmas dinner with friends (friends that cook prime rib are the best kind of friends), followed by games for the grownups. Chance played Pictionary, despite it involving getting off the couch and drawing at a child-sized easel! He had to draw six things, he was so good at it! We also played Cards Against Humanity, which has us all laughing until we cried. The box advertises itself as a card game for horrible people, and apparently we're all horrible because we had a great time.

  I took the kids for a daytrip to Corpus Christi, which really is not far at all. The drive involves I35, so it's not ideal, but 3 hours is a completely reasonable daytrip range for us. There's an aquarium with lots of critters to touch, and the cutest tiny jellyfish!

  Wise Words from Cotton:
  Me: "Did you like your Twinkie?"
  Cotton:"Yeah, but I didn't eat it."

  

  

  

  

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