A Great Week

I had a great week at school with my kids, but it still seemed like a long week. Not bad, just long. Last night Blair and I went to a Nathan Gunn concert on campus. Mr. Gunn is a very accomplished opera singer who performed for a very bad audience. I felt like that proverbial mother in the grocery store with the screaming child. People walked in and out. They clapped between all the parts of the Schubert song cycle. Someone's hearing aid was screeching, and the ladies in front of us knocked over their cane. The words were printed with the English translation, and the entire audience felt the need to follow along for the entire performance and loudly turn their pages when it was required. Forget just listening to the beautiful sound this man was producing. Forget watching his performance. Let's just follow along. Blair and I sitting among many of the Music Department faculty, and one could almost hear our collective groan when something happened.

This morning I went to my beloved Barnes and Noble and sat and read all morning and walked away with several purchases. I got two books for my kids at school (Little Critter), and The Wizard of Oz, Emma, Robinson Crusoe, and a new journal. I'm very excited about diving into one of these, I just haven't decided yet which one it will be.

When I left Barnes and Noble, I visited the buttercup field right down from our house. It isn't in full bloom yet, but it's still quite lovely.

Changes around here

Just in case you didn't notice, I made some big changes to the blog last night. I've been wanting to do it for a while, but just got around to it. The Banner at the top is courtesy of some of the fun toys over at Flickr. These are some of my favorite of this year's Christmas photos I've taken so far.

Blair and I started the day with breakfast together for the third day in a row. I like it, he likes it, the dogs like it...I see a new morning routine in the making. The boys and I have nothing to do today until 3:30, so I think we'll have a very relaxing day (with a little cleaning thrown in).

Even with yesterday's Shop updates I still have some work left to do on a couple of items. Maybe something will sell for once. We shall see.

I almost posted this without a picture!


Owl Moon is one of my favorite winter books. Go read yours today!