Dave just took off with Isaac for some winter camping at Nanitch Lodge on Mt. Hood - brrrr. I'm happy to be home, thank you. They are both well prepared and will be doing some tubing and other snow activities with the scouts, so it should be fun for them.

It's been a busy couple of weeks - I have been working fairly hard on the community classes I was to teach, only to end up canceling them due to lack of interest. To my dismay, the class on cultivating wild mushrooms got more interest than my class on childhood nutrition. A sad state of affairs But the pressure is now off and I have been spending more time doing things I want to do. Also- I have been asked to teach a course for Enrichment - 30 people signed up for that one, so my ego has fully recovered.

Kids are great - Isaac was recently tested and found to be a 'highly capable' student - who knew? - and they want to put him in a program at the High School. Pretty cool. Taylor is an origami master - leaving tulips, cranes and frogs all over the house. Parker misuses the word 'distracting' all the time - This cupboard is distracting me...I am so distracted with my shirt... I'm pretty sure he has it confused with 'frustrated'. It's pretty funny. Morgan is Morgan - serving me tea all day and making me do her stuffed animals' hair. Life is good.

Happy Birthday, Tom. Hope it was a good day. Brooke - have you read George and Sam? In all your well-rested, spare time...it is supposed to be a great book - thought of you when I read the review. Also - for those The Devil in the White City fans, Erik Larson's new Thunderstruck is supposed to be good.

That's it...have a great weekend!
Adina