Unlike Eliot, I find January and February to be the cruellest months. (I know: there's no bad weather-- I just need the right clothes.) Rebecca's passing the month enjoying the routines of her life, and making lists of lists. Here's one of how I wait for spring:
Reading (old British mysteries--Marsh, Christie, etc.). Just after Christmas, I found a stack of old used ones at the library book sale.
Learning (Intellitools, continued). Last week, two of the technology staff taught a couple of us how to combine scanned book pages and imported audio to create a computerized reading experience for children who may not have the fine motor or cognitive skills to read a book on their own. The MacIntosh is a more user-friendly for this than Windows is. Alas, I now need to translate what I've learned to our home pc.
Baking, cooking, and eating
Visiting (in-between toilet training)
Planning (trying to improve effectiveness of my To Do lists, making appointments)
Doing laundry
Enjoying gifts--a new tea kettle, and two of Luci Shaw's latest (Accompanied by Angels, and What the Light Was Like)
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And, last but not least, a little humor along the way.
