As of today:

• Jacob is bouncing around enjoying his newly repaired core muscles and driving everyone crazy.
• Tom is flat on his back trying not to move any core muscles as of 5 am this morning. Looks like a badly strained SI joint. (Thank you, Sherm, for helping me get him off the floor)
• I made a great deal of tamales this afternoon which all seemed to disappear to my neighbors. We ate pizza for dinner. ? (Thank you, Melissa, who only took 3 tamales.)
• Emma is making big plans for her future. They go something like this, "When I grow up I'm going to have blue car and green house with a statue of a bear in front, and a baby with brown hair... and a husband." Me, "What does your husband look like?" "I haven't decided that yet."
• We are all very concerned about our friend Ben P. who is in ICU with "the worst case of mono they have ever seen or studied."
• Ethan has earned his Bear.
• I just cut off about half of Emma's hair. It filled about 3 1/2 garbage bags.
• We just finished the Thirty Years War. It was exhausting.
• Emma hates subtraction.
• Lily is potty trained. We haven't been without diapers in nine and a half years.
• We are tired of all this rain.
• But we did see a rainbow today. Proof of sun.