“HARRY POTTER” & THE DEATHLY STATUS QUO

At is in New York for the Model U.N. competition, but his article from last month seemed really pertinent. Some weird typos and things, but I love his take. This is the article he wrote while I was on the Greece trip, mining Nu's help for HP lore.

"Consider, instead, that the wizard world of Harry Potter isn’t a status quo worth returning to. The “magical and perfect” wizard world is based on class, racism and segregation. In a society where magic can magically fix and duplicate things, somehow there are still wizard families living in poverty. "

And because I posted it proud-mama style on FB, there were some sweet reminiscences about his playwriting at seven, and him asking me a question at the SALA D.C. conference in 2004, when he was five.

So far, the only bright spots in a day where both Jordan Peele's Us and and Bobby Mueller's magnum opus disappointed.

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Saturdates

A full "dayspend" with J that we made happen when she walked into my office two weeks ago and insisted that I pull out my calendar to schedule it. We went to the temple, and lunch, and ended up with cups of tea at home.

Then it was Nu's sleepover with neighbor E after we walked over to Sansu for Big A's Boss Day dinner where I ate too much sushi. It felt so nice to have two kids at dinner with us again. Although when I said that, A said that the adoption thing seems less possible for him with each passing week.

Nu helped me design a Bitmoji so I can at least have tiny ones that way:

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Friday Night with Bottle Shock

Apparently, people who swear make better pals...

I'm making good ones then:





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Spelling Bee Champion(s)

 

This is DB's picture of the three finalists, and the random seating R to L is also how we ended up in the rankings. As he put it: "Of the around 100 people at the spelling bee last night - it all came down to these three favorite people of mine! Congrats to Maya, Jill, and Pete on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes!"  (I'm the odd one out here, Jill and Pete are DB's much loved family, after all :)

We weren't really going at it Spellbound-style. The event was for Child Advocacy and we'd been in groups up until the final round, and I'd been lucky to have bestie K as well as my CASA director and coordinator on my team. But yes, this did help me cross one more thing of my mental list of things I meant to get to after I moved to America.

* Nu and Big A were going to come to cheer me on, but kids weren't allowed, so they stayed home.

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Blooming

My Christmas amaryllis!









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Gifts From Afar

So the flowers we sent my parents  were delivered, and they're just as lovely as they looked in the catalogue...





The cake? We're all still giggling at the writing on this:



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Golden Wedding Anniversary

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