Skipper turned 15. She loves baseball and books and ABBA. She likes word games and gathering information, and she is ruthlessly direct and clear-sighted. When she turns her mind to an idea, she opens up the whole horizon with her questions. She likes good bagels and lemon-based drinks. We're very interested to see what she does with her sixteenth year.
Nothing much is happening here. Spring is in the air, we had a household COVID experience (Cook's first, somehow!), baseball season has begun in earnest.
Life goes on. Skipper continues to resolutely apply herself to the job of teenagering. She yearns for the removal of her braces, and rolls her eyes when her English teacher says her short story "lacks passion." Duchess continues to apply herself to the job of colleging, with all the joys and challenges attendant to young adulthood. She'll be home for part of the summer, and we look forward to her return, even temporarily. While the triangular family configuration is satisfying and delightful in its own right, it'll be nice to revert to the square.
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 ...
