A Snippet of Life Here

Jenni really wanted to get back to Ohio for the holidays but it didn't happen. As a second best, i sent her back for Kate N's wedding, meaning she flew out Seattle b/c the tix out of YVR were 700+. i did the drive myself (and this will be the last time i do such a thing). left at 2am, returned at 8.30am. slept til 12.45, worked til 4, took the boys boarding at cypress, came home to work some more. it has been a rager!

Cypress was totally fun. kids each earned $10 for passing "level 3"--5 consecutive pendulum turns (heel side slip). the original challenge was for 5 linked turns--something they tried and then pointed out after falling 2 runs solid that they just don't know how to do this. true 'nuf. so we made it something they could do and it was golden. they loved it and are looking forward to saturday. even daniel, who beat his brother to the prize, pulling off 5 turns the first run down. it was an amazing parenting experience. the entire way back they were talking to me...really talking, asking questions (about smoking and roman gods and the guages on the dash--we had a 10 min discussion on how cars work). sometimes good to have them all to myself (no having to justify the amt of sugar i pumped into them to pull this off)