choosing the foolish to confound the wise

some of the people entrusted with the task of decorating the church for the holidays.

Danjo's First Race

Today Danjo ran his first 5K race, and he was...MAGNIFICENT!!

We walked to a few places on the course and cheered.

Young Adventurer shouted out "encouraging" words to his dad. The exact content of those words was sort of not as encouraging as it could have been, which is why Danjo is smiling here.

About halfway...

Spectators:

the whole family came out to cheer Danjo on...

Very Cutest ponytail

(that's how she does her hair for cross-country team practice)

Best "I SEE You" face

Craziest angle

Most photographic/Least cameraless

Pinkest hair, most teen-like.

BEST.FINISH.EVER.

The (very)unofficial time

(calculated based on time stamps on the start and finish photos):

29:01

:-)

The goals for the next race

(since all the goals for this race were met or exceeded)

will include checking the official clock as he crosses the finish line.

The "Kids are Cooking Dinner" "diet"

The kids have done the cooking twice in the last week. This past weekend Adventurer Two made some fettucini alfredo from scratch. It was good. The trouble is, when it's made from scratch you know what goes into it. It's a very simple dish--just pasta, heavy cream, a cube of butter, and a bunch of parmesan cheese. No problem there. Right? Like I said, it was good. I had leftovers for lunch on Monday, along with some leftover bratwurst (I looked for leftover veggies, but they had all been swiped by lunch-makers that morning). So I made the best of what was available...

Tonight Venom has cooked dinner. I am very thankful, because I was unexpectedly out driving the car to various places and it's hard to cook when I'm doing that. Anyway, Venom searched the cookbooks and got a little frustrated. Too difficult; no time; missing critical ingredients---the usual. She finally settled on chocolate chip waffles topped with either peanut butter or maple syrup. It was good. Very good.

Tomorrow I'm teaching Young Adventurer to make salad.

Christmas before Thanksgiving

I really just wanted to post this youtube video that the piano teacher sent (as encouragement to Young Adventurer, who has started working on his Christmas music--before Thanksgiving), because it's funny, and it's guys singing, and it's Christmasy, and it's not Thanksgiving. But then I was thinking that actually Christmas did come before Thanksgiving, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Anyway, here's that video:

Danjo the Magnificent transmitting from the game...

and his phone is so smart he can share photos with me. Sadly, my phone is not so capable of handling the data.

The rest of us are at home watching the Doctor speaking gibberish to the Rhino people and getting excited about finding the lost moon of Poosh.

Oh yeah...Go Suns!!