Margot had her last game for the fall league yesterday. They played incredibly well against a strong team and ended tied 3-3. It was a great season. They moved up a flight, and started the season with some losses. But they didn’t give up, they
Hazel has been working really hard at school this year. Soccer practice 4 days a week after school, volunteering, an AP class as a freshman, student newspaper, homework, etc. There have been some late evenings and skipping some family stuff to work. She’s been putting
Kim picked pomegranates this morning. Most of these are the size of a softball, and the tree still has lots.
Margot recently decided she wanted to crochet a chicken. She didn’t have a kit or instructions. She just looked at some pictures of chickens online for “inspo” and then made this up in her head then crocheted it. I’m amazed at how she just figures
Pulp and LCD Soundsystem Hazel loves Pulp. She was a little surprised to find out they are in their 60’s and that most of the crowd is my age or older, lol. We had a really great time at the concert. Kim and Margot decided
Video from my recent Grand Canyon trip with my 11 year daughter. Her second time down the canyon, and she has done other big river trips. But I was nervous because she was the only kid on the trip, other trips she has at least
Who needs to stand in line for the latest trader Joe’s bag drop when you have an artist at home making custom tote bags?
Margot has been drawing friendly monsters, and I’m really impressed. She drew this for Kim for mother’s Day.
Hazels school has a fun tradition where at the end of 8th grade, students build and race cardboard boats. Only allowed materials are cardboard and duct tape. There was a wide, wide range of effort on show, including some that literally looked like they were
Margot loved making this turtle, from a kit she got from her grandparents at Christmas. She named the turtle Aitutaki, after the turtle we saw there on our trip a few weeks ago.
Hazel had her first game with the school soccer team. She played super well, especially considering it’s been 4+ months since she played a game.
Hazel is home sick today. She texted me this: I’m stuck at homeSuper-duper sickNo places to roamI wish this was a trickI’m so boredThis house is so quietOutside birds soaredWhat rhymes with quietI’ll be better by tonightI wish we had more guacamoleBy friday I’ll be
We took the girls for the long promised and long overdue ear piercing, and then for some nice indian food after.
Hazel had a poetry assignment for school. They had to create a book with a certain number of different styles of poems, including haikus, cinquain, diamante, ballads, ode, and elegy.
We did Tuesday tacos, and Margot was playing with my phone while we waited. She said she was trying to look mysterious.
If anyone eats gluten free or cooks for someone that does, highly recommend two things: 1) Get yourself the pictured cookbook. The recipes aren’t simple, they involve a lot of mixing your own flour blends, but they have all been fantastic. 2) Get yourself a
Hazel made the fluffiest lightest best cake I’ve had in the nearly 20 years I’ve been eating gluten free. Was delicious and you absolutely could have served it without mentioning the gf part and no one would have ever suspected. Really good, and carrot cake
Congratulations to my sister Katy on her marriage. and thank you for inviting me to officiate. Was a really nice way to kick off 2025. She is an elementary school teacher, and invited her students to make cards that she then framed and used to
It was very wet and rainy, but we had a nice time at the Houston zoo with Dad/Duckie. (My father, girls grandfather)
A nice visit to the Houston space center with my father. I think I was more into than the girls, and it was stupid crowded, but cool to see the rockets and other space stuff.
Kim’s birthday is this month, and since her mom has been out of the country I knew she’d be craving Asian dishes. It’s always a little intimidating cooking dishes that someone grew up with, especially when it’s not what you cook regularly. But I was
Our ornaments aren’t color coordinated or anything. We get most of them from my mom, who tries to get them to match interests, and we get many of them on our trips. Our first Christmases we had a tiny tree, and only a few ornaments
