2/12/08 happiness is...

dinner with my family and being at home after a crazy busy day at work.

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spending time with carter

the last couple of days we haven’t had a lot of time between when we all get home from school and work and fixing/eating dinner and getting a four year old ready for bed, but we’ve managed to eat dinner together and play some games. Carter’s current favorite is some made up game with Pokemon cards, sorta like battle. we’re still working on not being a sore loser and also being a gracious winner, but he’s making progress! :-)

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2/10/08 happiness is...

gorgeous weather, watching carter ride his bike and him learning to count by tens

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2/9/08 happiness is...

meerkats, nice weather, otters, underwater slides, porcupines, and an eel

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2/9/08 and 2/10/08 spending time with my son

saturday we went to the zoo and sunday we had a bike vs. dad race at the school down the road.

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2/8/08 spending time with my son

tonight Carter wanted to lie out on the driveway and watch for shooting stars. it was a beautiful, cool night with thousands of stars to see. he went us got us some blankets and pillows and now wants to sleep outside!

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2/8/08 happiness is...

lying out under the stars on a clear crisp night

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2/7/08 happiness is...

sharing a nearly 1000 year old manuscript with students and seeing their amazement and wonder

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2/6/08 happiness is...

a pot of freshly ground and brewed coffee waiting for me at the office (thanks, Stephen – you’re AWESOME!)

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2/5/08 happiness is...

playing catch with my son
watching a cold front blow in
listening to a masterful writer reading a delightful excerpt from one of his books

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2/5/08 spending time with my son

yesterday we went out for an adventure, Carter riding his bike and me walking Hilde. we rode down to explore a new house that’s going up down the road that’s the same floor plan as ours. the day before that we had a rousing backyard game of teeball with the whole family. tonight we played catch on the stairs with a ball that Carter hand selected because it was soft and not too noisy!

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2/2/08-2/408 happiness is...

4. sharing memories
3. hospitality extended
2. unfettered laughter

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2/1/08 spending time with my son

last night we played jacks (which i don’t think i’ve ever done before and it wasn’t all that successful, but who cares!) and we played several rounds of old maid. it was cute to see Carter’s pokerface when i knew he’d drawn the old maid card. maybe he’ll grow up to be a professional card shark ;-) he also wanted to help make dessert. he can be such a good helper (at times!). at bed time we read from a book of poems about animals, some that were cute and some that were convoluted (those were the ones by well known poets!). about one that Emily Dickenson had written about a snake, he wanted to know if that was a true story or not. interesting question when posed to a poem. he wanted to keep the book in bed with him as he often does with the books we read at bedtime. he was delighted to discover a couple poems we had missed (as we were skipping around in the book), one about ducks and one about “beasts and birds” that he’s already reserved a spot for in tonight’s reading time.

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2/1/08 happiness is...

my son getting up without a fuss
the rising sun glowing ever so slightly over the hill
Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium

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