I hope you are all warm and well fed on this cold January day. While I am growing tired of the constant news coverage leading up to inauguration of our first African-American president, I am very glad to see that shrub-for-brains out of the white house. I hope Barack can make good on his promises and that the economy does turn around before too long.
We are snuggled up in Syracuse. Dave is building his most amazing snow fort ever --he'd declared it both his art form and his sporting event. I will send pictures along in another week after he collects with week's snow fall and piles it up on top of the second story. Isabel is now in 4th grade and a better speller than I ever was. She is also Contra dancing and playing cello. We finally found a new teacher for her. Her former teacher is now in London, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, and recommended a teacher from the Syracuse Symphony, who turns out to be a young and fun teacher, good at communicating with kids.
Calvin is learning to read and making new friends in Kindergarten, many right here in the neighborhood. Unfortunately Dave hurt his knee this year and can't ski. Fortunately kneeling in the snow has been good for it. He will have surgery sometime in the next month.
Sarah is a little more than half way through her third year of medical school. The fall was tough, but now in her family medicine rotation she has a more normal schedule until March when she will start her surgery rotation and find out what it is like to watch the moon set on her way to the hospital in the early morning.
We had a good Christmas visiting Sarah's brother in Bonita Springs, where the kids enjoyed co-captaining his boat on the Gulf of Mexico. As usual the best part of Florida were just spending time at the beach and relaxing. We did take one crazy air-boat ride in the Everglades, which nearly killed Sarah with fright, but which the kids, very predictably, enjoyed. It was much more of a motor-head thrill ride than we expected, and we recommend that the more environmentally minded of you find a nice guided canoe tour at one of the local state parks instead.
Weather permitting, we are planning to have an Igloo party on the 30th of January. If any of you happen to be in town are looking for something silly to do to help make it through the winter, please feel free to drop in!
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