p.s.

Here is how our advent calendar looks now:

I decided to embroider the numbers. I love the way it looks but I think I might not get to 24 until the children are in middle school. But, you know, process over product, right?

And apropos of my last post re: the medical care on offer night and day at our house, I wanted to share Frances's latest doctoring development:

Frances asked why doctors carry pens in their coat pockets. I explained it is mostly to write prescriptions but also to record information in a patient's medical record. What's a medical record? Well, a few more questions later, Frances is asking me how to spell 'infection' and after bedtime I found these notes, clearly intended for our charts.

And finally, a couple of moments from our wild, windy afternoon at the playground. Here's to the elements, and the salutary effects of wind, sun, and water on a brisk December day.