Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year at home with family.

It was grandma's first time home after going to the nursing home.

I was super anxious about how she would be, worrying she would be sad and not want to return. 
My anxiety kept me from being fully present and enjoying the holiday fully. 
And in a way I was right.  She was very anxious herself and didn't want to return that evening. 

It was all I could do to not breakdown from overwhelming compassion. 

And yet, the holiday was celebrated and we did the best we could to make it beautiful and delicious....even though the underlying pink elephant was Grandma's happiness.  

 

Last Meet of the Season

 

Circo Tempesta

                                                                                                                                               Yet another awesome performance by Kuba in Circo Tempesta.  

He played the strongman and he was fantastic!   

Pine Never Looked So Good Before

We are laying down new wood floors upstairs.

Pine flooring.

We got a deal on a pallet of pine and decided to go for it.

It's been the catalyst for an entire upstairs renovation project.

Peter and Anna have been super busy redoing electric, tearing down and building new walls, laying down floors, and we are getting closer and closer to a newly renovated upstairs.

This was facilitated by Peter urging us to build a room for Kuba.

He was right.

 

F O U R T E E N - Take 2

 

(the above video is from 2019!! - but I just happened to find it and decided to post it here) 

FOURTEEN

 

Kuba celebrated his fourteenth birthday today. 

He continues to be a feisty, passionate, enlivened being.

His fourteenth year was full of the strangeness of the pandemic still, yet he was able to do lots of theater with Very Merry. What is new and apparent is a surge in a desire to get straight A's in middle school. 

He is very motivated to do the work.  He's physically grown so much this year that he is nearly 6 feet tall and almost taller than Anders. He pushes us to be inspired, to laugh, to enjoy life and to practice being here now.  Happy Birthday to such a bright, beautiful light.