Year's end

 I haven't blogged much lately. I've either been too busy, or not had a lot to say--but mostly, too busy.

The girls have been taking music lessons, and the first photo comes from the night of a piano recital. There were some fine refreshments.

Christmas was great. Kim and I spent so much time trying to get stuff done and, like every year, we were up very late wrapping gifts and cleaning. This year we actually got done before 3:00 a.m. (though not by much), which I'm not sure we've managed before. The girls had a lot of fun on Christmas day, and I really enjoyed family coming over. By the time Christmas morning arrived, all the hard work was done, and we mostly hung out all day long. It was very pleasant.

There was a tiny bit of snow Christmas night, but we didn't get anything worthwhile until the 28th. We got just about three inches at our house, enough for some front yard sledding and snowman building. Also, snow penguin building.