2021

 

2021.  What the heck will you be? I'm not going to even try to make any guesses this time.  I asked Paul if he had any goals this year.  He said, "Survive."  And he meant it.

The boys got to "stay up so late" on New Years Eve (in reality, they were in bed by 7:15).  To them it was a wild and crazy night where they got to eat a ton of pancakes for dinner, play board games after dinner (?? instead of just getting ready for bed???) and THEN watch a movie after that???  By the middle of Frozen, Hadrian kept dramatically sighing about how he was so tired and might just fall asleep sitting up, it was so late.    .... It was 6:30pm.    

See the trick was, we had dinner an hour and a half before we usually do.  They didn't get wise to it because the sun goes down so early.  Everyone won New Years Eve.

Then Paul and I got takeout from India Palace (India Palace is the only acceptable place to get Indian food in our family.  We are very loyal.  All you Bombay House fools can stuff it.) and pre-gamed for a family Zoom Game night of Among Us.

Among Us is a very fun game.  Especially when you're playing with my family. And I'll just leave it at that.  

Just a side note, but Hadrian is very amazing at building things in Minecraft.  Or just in general.  He discovers really fascinating and unexpected shapes for magnatile structures, for example.  Hard to describe.  Or he'll spend half an hour doing something in Minecraft and then show it to me - he'll have built a giant, very detailed shipwreck, for example.  Or today, a "rainbow castle" with six floors.  But the thing that's really impressive is he'll fly his little minecraft builder waaaaay way way up in the sky and look down to reveal huge, elaborate patterns radiating out from his buildings.  I honestly am not sure how he does it so quickly since he has to place each block at "ground level" and can't see the pattern from the sky as he builds.  I should take some screenshots to save.