We're going to be out of town for the scout meeting at which V is supposed to present her collage, so she's submitting this video instead. Since you're here, you might as well watch it:

(link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNn5KM4udVw)

There has been a lot of activity for Victoria since the middle of the month. We went to Florida and hung out with the big kids, came back just in time for Christmas here, went to parties, museums, visited friends, and had an art class that turned into a huge game of hide-and-seek. So when she experienced a couple of consecutive minutes of ( Read more... )

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I just scanned Victoria's history journal pages and posted them on flickr, mostly because I think my mom would like to see them. You might, too. I can't remember what was so distracting mid-September but she really did lose focus there.

ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH DAY ( Read more... )

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Brian and I were talking about our anniversary at the dinner table. I said that we each had been married longer than we had not been married. There was silence, and then Victoria said to Brian, "But if you were married when you were 27, then how could you be 46 now and be married more years than you weren't married?" Brian revealed that he had ( Read more... )

Thursday we had tickets to the ballet. The clay teacher at the rec center--from whom we have yet to take a class--hunted us down again to make sure we got comped. The show was Alice in Wonderland and it was excellent. The next day we went to a lecture about the Arctic, specifically about disappearing ice and increased atmospheric CO2. We were ( Read more... )

I thought my parents might like to see a video log from Victoria, but I haven't sent them a link yet because even though she's been at it a week she's still not, uh, she's... She is loopy. I don't want to direct her but I don't want to subject them to stuff like this:

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We finished watching season one of Due South today. I can't disagree with Brian, the stories have been weak and predictable, but I think he underestimates the compensatory value of the uniform. At any rate, a love interest for Fraser emerges in the final three episodes and both V and I were disappointed. They just kiss and kiss and they keep on ( Read more... )