Let's Resume

I kind of miss these weekly posts.

We live in a cold place. With snow. We live 5 minutes from a ski resort and we are planning to make the most of it. This winter I've given up running on the treadmill and picked up a pair of skis. For now, I spend my time on the tow rope with Moses, but eventually we'll be on the slopes. The bus stop is in the Sundance parking lot, the bus driver is so cool he lets the kids keep their skis on the back of the bus all day and then most of the mountain kids ski for a couple hours after school everyday just wearing their backpacks. It's perfect, every other day the resort closes at 4:30, I can pick the boys up from the resort and make it home for dinner by 5. (This has successfully been tested once, I hope it's a trend.)

Mary turns 14 today. Mind blowing. How did she (we) get that old?!

She is beautiful, helpful, talented, dedicated, self motivated and kind. The best birthday present came when the Jr. High called yesterday to say she needed to serve a quarantine, due to exposure to covid-19 twelve days ago. She lucked out and gets to stay home from school for 3 days, I'm thankful she didn't have to miss school for two weeks. Our neighbor has had to stay home for three 2-week quarantines this fall... we feel really lucky with this short stint. For her birthday we are skiing, twice. This morning for a couple hours and then this afternoon when the bus drops off Abe and Maeser.

Moses had his first ski lesson too, we are insistent that this is a family effort and that everyone will get time on the mountain. So far so good and we are riding this wave of enthusiasm for a new sport.

Dan is back from Florida, a bit sore, with post-race weight gain (muscles swell as they repair after expenditure) of 7 pounds. Crazy that our bodies know how to process growth and repair instinctively.

Feeling thankful for the current circumstances, for the opportunity to be in the USA and to have so much time with mom and dad and grandma and grandpa.