Bristow Morning With the Girls: Hayden and Halle

Coming Home From School

Roller Blading with Granny

It's about 7:10, partly cloudy but warm outside, as I sit here, drinking coffee, as the girls sit on Evie's lap, laughing at videos she took the past year on her Ipad, mostly of the girls this past summer, but some at both Beth and Tommy's house.  Drew was up and out of the house by 5:00, the girls up at 7:00 and Jill has yet to get up, the sleeper in the family.

The view out Jill's sliding doors is mostly their deck,  pine trees, and sky which is nice. The deck leans off their second floor, so its about 15 feet above ground.  They have neighbors on either side but out the back, they have mostly trees, a narrow forest that runs down to a creek.

We arrived yesterday about 2:30, having left around 7:20, so it took us the usual seven hours, an easy drive, a few stops, sun most of the way.  We met the girls at school and they were excited as you can see.  The afternoon was spent catching up, playing outside, and  going for a long with them on their roller blades, looking at Xmas lights at dusk.  For dinner, Jill made fish tacos, with a great chipotle mayo sauce which gave them the right spice.  I gave Drew a bottle of Jack Daniels to celebrate his promotion to colonel, and we had a bit as we watched the football game.  The girls went to bed easily, read some with Evie and laughed the night a way.  

Today Halle's class has a Christmas party, which Evie will attend at Halle's request.  We will be walking them to school soon, about 8:30, with all the neighbor kids, often their Mom's and of course all the dogs, quite a procession each morning and afternoon. It's neat to not take a school bus and see everyone walking, families together.  So different from Chautauqua where kids at our end of the lake live so far apart they need to be bused.  Only in Jamestown do I see kids walking to school.  No agenda for today other than go to Hayden and Halle's school and pick them up at 3:30 and, of course, walk Coco.