months go by
We are alive! Not much to report. Cook has a new job, still in government, but doing a different kind of work. I have the same job. Duchess is out there building her young adult life. Skipper is here, wading through sophomore year, busy on the social and academic fronts. (She semi-accidentally ended up taking 4 AP classes, and was pretty bummed to discover that she actually has to do homework this year.) The weather is getting dark and rainy. We briefly dogsat Skipper's favorite dog. Cook found out this weekend that he was supposed to be at a Halloween party. Skipper helped him sort through the box of miscellaneous dress-up stuff while he looked up "last-minute costume ideas," and he tacked together a hasty costume (Swedish Construction Worker Who is Also a Pirate, I guess).
