Well, we survived
Thanksgiving and are coming up fast on Christmas!
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| Happy Holidays from our family to yours! |
The past month and a half
have been pretty busy. We've had a few opportunities to get together with
friends from both near and far, and have had a great time! Birthday parties,
boozy Christmas parties, and let's-just-chill-and-chat get-togethers.
This year, we didn't make a traditional visit to Santa. Instead, we tried a few new things. We bundled up and saw fireworks in Nekoosa. We did Breakfast with the Grinch at the Y Camp.
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| Iris didn't like The Grinch at first. |
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| Fireworks! |
Iris had a daycare holiday
program last week. She played the role of Martha is her class's recreation of
the book The Gingerbread Baby. So cute! I seem to have two little hams in the
family.
Felix had his program this
afternoon. He's been practicing his four lines of the class poem for weeks.
They sang many songs and I got to take him to work with me afterwards, where he
drew up some road plans for the toy cars I have.
Nick and I have started up
curling again, and our team actually won recently. It only took 4 or 5 weeks...
:P Brand new brushes do not a well-oiled team make, apparently. But onward and
upward!
I, for one, do not mind the fact that I haven't worn my snow boots once this year. I know it's inevitable that we'll get a few big snows before the season ends, but I'm savoring the traction my car has right now.
And, speaking of roads/traction/weather, one of my side job duties is to be on call every 4-10 weeks. "A traffic engineer on call? WHY?" you ask. It's our job to help maintain traffic in the event of an incident on state highways. Helping to find decent detour routes, getting inspectors out for bridge hits, notifying people about infrastructure damage and incidents with several fatalities. In short, a necessary PITA. Since my last post, I've been on call twice, and been involved a pedestrian crash in Merrill, a fatal wrong-way crash in Waupaca, another crash in Wood County, and an incident where a firefighter was hit attending a scene on the interstate. I only went on-scene for one of these, and it's not pleasant, yet there are others who do it every single day for their job. But here's my point in writing this: Please be careful when you drive. If you're the driver, that's your job, so do it well, with your full attention. It's just mindboggling that a person would miss the flashing lights on a firetruck at dusk, and yet it happened. I just want everyone reading this to have a safe 2016. *steps off soapbox*
Felix: 6 yrs & Iris: 3 yrs
