Better! Better! Better!

 Thank you for all of the comments, emails, IG messages, etc, about Minnie!!

I **think** she is on the mend for realz. She seems to feel more like herself, and her cough is getting much better. She still says she feels “ not good” and is “ho hick” when asked, but I think that’s just a thing she says now? She DOES seem to have something kind of off with her sense of taste, and she claims that a lot of her favorite foods taste like sauerkraut— sooooo, this is kind of weird.

I have a brutal cough, but I feel generally OK except that my head throbs when I cough, and I am always coughing. **yikes face**

At least 6 grad student instructors have COVID, which makes final exam week kind of tricky and inspired me to make what was supposed to be our last staff meeting a really detailed email and couple of how-to videos.

This is us all the time.

I made it a whole semester getting actually dressed to take the kids to school and then broke my streak yesterday in Hanukkah pj pants, a shirt of Harry’s, and Cooper’s shoes and coat. LOL.

Hanukkah night 3 was GAME NIGHT! Only Ben, Coop, and Jack were in Sheboygan at a hockey tourney for the weekend, so Jack and Coop opened this CLUE version at their hotel. Minnie got a memory game, and Harry and Dorothy got Ticket to Ride: Europe, since the OG Ticket to Ride gets a ton of play over here. (We played it after Minnie went to bed— SO FUN)

NEVER PLAY THIS GAME WITH ALL 72 CARDS MY GOD.

In other weekend news, Harry demolished Dorothy wishing on the Thanksgiving wishbone which has just been sitting there all disgusting on the window sill for weeks. But, they both wished for a new puppy, so nobody wins, actually.

Coop’s team got 3rd at the tourney, and Coop won the team MVP necklace, scored in every game, and even got a hat trick. But Ben was the real winner because he took home these lovely raffle basket prizes:

Also, Coop is THAT KID who wear shorts year-round

And the Polar Caps parents won the brat eating trophy, so that’s quite the accomplishment.

Night 4 was mittens and a Target gift. Card that the kid immediately wanted to spend (Harry: baseball cards; Jack Thinking Putty; Coop, a portable phone charger; Dorothy, a slinky and a stuffed triceratops; Minnie, a Pound Puppy and an Elmo phone that sings Wheels on the Bus). Ben took them because I always let them spend over their gift cards and just pay the difference ($29 is practically $20, right??), but Ben never does. #oppositesattract

Also, in a pinch 5T mittens work for me **shrug**

Last night was book night, I have no pictures, but here’s what they got:

Harry: a mansplain book about capitalism and democracy

Jack: annotated versions of America’s founding docs and significant political speeches

Coop: The Body by Stephen King

Dorothy: A new series written in text message since she’s into the epistolary novel, apparently

Minnie: An actually horrible book that teaches kids they can’t believe experts and can only rely on their own observations. GAH, SHOULD HAVE LOOKED BEYOND THE COVER.

Onward and upward, friends!