Reed College Place

We have 5 weeks left in Portland. My parents are half-way through a two-week visit. A birthday party weekend for Stefan, Peter stocked up at Office Depot, barely got a dinner together for my parents, but we managed to make it nice, Peter bbq-ed. Yesterday Eric and Elisa threw a great party for probably 70 people, kids sword-fighting and the third-grade class parents and teachers raiding the liquor cabinet.

Wow, it was fun. And tomorrow is school, a week and half left; and I’ve decided tomorrow is Take Your Mother to Work day at Hanna. After dinner, when really they should have already been in bed, I walked the kids down the street, roses, and people out eating dinner in their yards, the green, green grass of home. Stefan discovered that his bike leaves skid marks if he stops fast.

I took a beeswax encaustic class from Linda Womack at Collage today. It was so fun.