Happy Holidays!

This is a picture of Will today. He looks sick, and if you said that he had the flu you wouldn't be wrong, you would just be a few days late. In grand McFarland holiday tradition, Will and Madeline and I all came down with the flu in a few hours of each other. But thankfully we're over it now in time for Christmas.

But here Will is showing that he's sad to be leaving all of the kids in his class, who signed this card for him. He has been regaling us with tales of the heretofore unexplained recess activities of Will and His Boys. Evidently Will is the chief, but he has a bodyguard, a money man, and an attacker who help him out. We'll delve more deeply into this, and in the meantime I'm going to teach the kid how to play foursquare or jacks or something.

Perhaps Will isn't looking too good because he just finished eating the liverwurst sandwich Rob made him for lunch. There is a brand here which makes processed meat products and caters to young customers by packaging them in teddy bear shapes. I am troubled by a culture that wants its children to eat mortadella and liverwurst at such a young age. Nevertheless, I don't intervene because I remember that I used to eat liverwurst sandwiches when my father made them for me. But I don't partake now, because as Sarah puts it: "I don't eat filters."

Today Rob went grocery shopping for Christmas, took the kids to the playground, and went to see a play tonight (Mother Courage and Her Children). I packed and did laundry. Our children were the saddest kids I've ever seen at the beginning of Christmas break. The boys couldn't be in the same room together without someone crying (which is no problem when you have half a dozen rooms to split them up into, but when you have three children and only three rooms, it gets trickier).

This is Sebastian playing in the elevator. Rob notes that though we have no trampoline here, we do have an elevator, which the kids will sorely miss once we go back to our flat rambler.

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