It's been a while . . .

Things that have happened in the last few months . . .

One trip to Texas. 3000 miles, over 100 mosquito bites (spread over six kids, mostly garnered in Arkansas), overnights with amazing aunts, uncles, and cousins, and by the way, one fancy mortarboard.

Trips to the National Zoo, the National Archives, the Natural History Museum, and the most northernly (don't you love that word? It's on the sign at the entrance.) cypress swamp in the USA.

Czech classes twice a week. I'm not fluent yet. Probably not next week either.

I started yoga. I thought it was mostly flexibility, but it seems to be more involved with impossible feats of simultaneous strength and balance. I'm sure it's good for me. At least, pretty sure.

An exhibit titled "Czechoslavakia through the eyes of the Secret Police." The communist regime is described as "wicked." I don't think that I've really seen that word outside of the scriptures and some Victorian literature, but it's absolutely appropriate.

A trip to King's Dominion where we met up with another aunt, uncle, and cousins. A day of roller coasters, adventure, and best of all, zero whining, complaining, or asking for stuff. (A day like that should be cast in resin and kept forever.)

And 7:30 this morning was beautiful.