Busy
As always, I have been meaning to post more often, and failing!
Things have been pretty busy around here. After 3.5 years, I’ve started working again. It’s part-time for a startup and I can’t say much yet ’cause we’re in stealth mode, but I will say I’ve really been enjoying working again. So nice to be using my brain that way. Jack is in school two days a week and I supplement with a babysitter one other day, but in January he’ll start a third day of school. Thankfully he still really likes it there.
Last winter, Jack was sick almost every week from about August to January and missed a lot of school. This year, he’s had a sort of perpetual on/off cold but no other illnesses and has hardly missed a day. Such a relief.
Our trip to the UK in October was a whirlwind of seeing family and friends. We slept in 7 differ
ent locations in 2.5 weeks. Jack did fairly well on the flights.. this time he played with Chris’s Android tablet which was a lifesaver. He loved seeing his cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles. I was happy we got to visit Yorkshire, one of my favorite places. It was fairly cold while we were there and we got hailed on during our visit to Thomas Land.
I just finished a scuba diving class. It was at a local dive shop.. they have an indoor pool with a deep end for the pool training. We had six classes (they were in the evening from about 6:30 – 10). I decided not to do the local ocean dive in Monterey.. brrr.. but will instead finish up my certification w
hen we go to Costa Rica. Chris was certified in the ’90s at the Great Barrier Reef but hasn’t had the chance to do a lot of diving since then.
We had our annual pumpkin carving party the week before Halloween and had some great entries as always. My sister and I visited my grandmother (she just turned 98) in Washington and got to see some snow there for the first time. My sister and her husband hosted their first Thanksgiving in their newly-remodeled house. I can’t believe it’s nearly Christmas. Jack’s really been enjoying all the Christmas traditions, like our advent candle.
The last few months have been busy but full of really good things.
