Life is Settling Down

All too quickly, Keoni is away again to MacDuffie for his school year and reports a dorm room this time that is, if not palatial, greatly improved over the digs from last year with an actual living room in the photos he messaged to us. The loss of his wallet played heavily through the week as the urgencies created consumed chunks of his world and his parents'.

Aidan doesn't have to show up for eighth (OMG 8th!!!) grade until the end of the month. Had a pleasurable afternoon with him that included a mini concert in the music room while he played The Swan, a clever card trick, Scattergory, drawing, and stuffing ourselves at the Energy Station...

This is Aidan's dessert. He couldn't finish and neither could I.

It was a pleasure today to hear him play The Swan again at church; this time with Seth accompanying on the piano.







For the Postlude he played C. Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor with Seth ably accompanying. Seth said they could get together for more of this. Nice.

This afternoon was very satisfying going to an actual movie that is only 15-20 minutes away and has a closed captioning device. Yea!!!! Marge and I saw Florence Foster Jenkins. Yes, Meryll Streep has done another wonderful character. Hugh Grant is way better than I've ever seen him. Funny, I saw this on the stage a few years ago and it was no where near as good as this movie. Streep makes the character believeable without particularly noticing it was Streep. I have really missed going to movies. I love watching what I can on my laptop with the earbuds, but have fallen completely out of the loop on what has been playing except for blockbusters.