As much as I like being away riding bikes, it’s awfully nice to come home again. Not that the homecomings are always joyous, but rather the opposite: the girls (and Shannon) have a very no-nonsense attitude. “Oh, you’re home! Good. Help me with my homework.”
Tonight, for instance, I got home around 7 from a work event and within a minute of hanging up my jacket, I was working with Vivi on a tiny model of a bison. When we finished that, Julia taught me how to make a cool origami cube. I loved just hanging out with them, and by their bedtime, we had made some neat stuff for my desk:
