Tomorrow is Lydia’s birthday and Lily made her a special shepherd’s pie dinner with amazing strawberry cream pastries for desert. I’ve been focussed on hosting customer at our X4 event for Qualtrics, and was sad to miss this evening with Lydia.
Also, Mary wrote the cutest pen-pal note to her friend Lilly.
Today Lydia had a medieval festival at school and Lily attended some of it and got pictures. Lydia’s cake was served, and she also played the harp. My role was to transport the harp to and from school, and when I picked it up, her teacher, Mrs. Mason effused (3 or 4 times) about how remarkable Lydia’s harp playing was. She even had Lydia play specifically for the principal so the principal could hear her play. It warmed my heart to hear such praise and we are very proud of Lydia!
Today we woke up and all went to mass, except Lydia who stayed home and made her cake for her medieval festival tomorrow.
We enjoyed mass, and although Lily doesn’t agree with all the Catholic doctrine, she felt at home there, and loved the diversity.
At home, I helped Ammon finish the tree-house for his little creatures, and then he, Clarissa and I played for about an hour.
Work has been very intense, including a recent tragic occurrence on my team. I spent a lot of time today working, however, I peeled away around 3:30 to have sushi with the family, and go to Blickenstaff’s together.
During the day, I caught Lily playing Barbies with Clarissa. I think it is one of Clarissa’s favorite things.
After work today, Lydia showed me an incredible coat of arms she made for our family. Everyone in it has a symbol. The jester hat is Basil, the chef hat is Mary, the tiara is Clarissa, the helmet is Ammon and the pink and green hat is Lydia. I am the blue dragon and lily is the green dragon. I love it!
I was also admiring how beautiful our children are over dinner. I love them!
Here is a video of Lily reading to Ammon and Clarissa that I took after I got home from pickleball with my coworkers.
After that, Lily massaged Lydia’s feet while we all had a discussion about orbits, gravity and space-time. I got really excited (one of my favorite topics), and we watched a Spacetime episode on PBS.
After putting the kids to bed, Lily and I played Wingspan and she beat me three times in a row!