Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. As with Thanksgiving, I find that I have more to be thankful for than I had the year before. Michelle successfully delivered a pair of healthy boys without incident. Claire was able to enter first grade at Infant Jesus and is reading very well. Abby is getting verbal and always has funny things to say. She can't tell a joke well but I always end up laughing at they turn out nonetheless.** I'm still at a reasonably fun job that's close to home and has great co-workers (despite recent stock devaluation...). My brother got engaged. I learned a lot about tinkering with Unix, digital photography, web page authoring. While my time to read has gone down somewhat, I've still had plenty of opportunities for continuing theological studies. My ability to work in RCIA is coming back and to attend Opus Dei evenings of reflection. I moved back to a Macintosh platform and got a lightening fast broadband Internet connection that doesn't tie up a phone line.
I've created yet another photo album that covers this past week and hopefully will cover the events of this four day weekend. You can see the first 10 pictures for now. The photo doctoring factor gets higher with each roll. Not content to correct color casts, removed redeye, and crop, now I've experimented with techniques for blurring distracting backgrounds, minimizing runny noses, and (last week on the 11th) totally replacing heads if necessary.
I ordered our Christmas cards for the season. It'll be a tradition Renaissance style Christmas photo on the cover. Inside will be a modification of the picture mentioned in the album from the 11th. I've wrapped that photo in a red ribbon and holly-berry border to make it a smidge more 'Christmas'y.
I went to Claire's parent-teacher conference meeting this morning. Academically Claire is well prepared. Currently she just has a hard time comprehending what is being asked. It's like it doesn't soak in and you have to repeat the instruction. There needs to be focus when instruction is given and then time to think about what the instruction means; how to apply it. It's not that it happens all the time but often enough.
Tomorrow I'll take the girls to Thanksgiving Mass. After Mass there's a special breakfast get together in the rectory. In Nashua the big Thanksgiving event is the annual football game that goes on between Bishop Guertin High School and Nashua High. We'll have the Martinez's over for the usual Thanksgiving meal. Michelle rented a couple of movies (Shrek and The Grinch) to watch since we likely won't want to watch any ball games tomorrow. On Saturday we may attend Nashua's annual Holiday stroll, weather permitting.
I have to go for now. It's getting late. Hope you enjoy the pictures .
"Knock, knock"
"Who's there?"
"Boo"
"Boo who?"
"Orange you glad I didn't say banana?"