Been a while

It is hard to maintain a regular blog. Regular anything, really. You get new things you have to do, and other stuff gets pushed aside. Push anything aside for long enough, and it is hard to bring it back.

Halloween was great. Jack was a zombie football player, and most of his friends were also zombie athletes. I don't know why or who started it, might have been Jack. But they all looked fantastic and were in character for all pictures.

Kate was a monkey. She walked, acted, and looked very monkey like throughout th holiday. Many of her friends were princesses or Devils or Angels or I don't know. But she was a monkey and she owned it.

Probably the most recurring thing over the past month are the evening dog walks, with Jack, Kate, and Riley. I do most of the walking, but Kate and Jack each take a turn. And they bring Kate's scooter, and take turns on that, too. They have a whole system worked out where he does a half block, followed by her, etc. sometimes the system breaks down and I look up and they are half a block behind me, arguing about whose turn it is. But eventually it gets worked out.

The schedule was kind of insane in October. Baseball, an after school basketball thing, gymnastics and swimming for Kate, and 2-3 times a week swimming for Jack. It was probably too much. So right now, sitting on the couch on a Saturday evening, fire going, kids watching TV and perusing holiday catalogs, and writing my blog, is kind of nice. Hasn't been enough of it lately. Will try to have it more often. All of it.