International Day

Today was International Day at school, in which each class performs a folk dance associated with their chosen country, and brings food from that country to share with the rest of the school. They start with Kindergarten and work up to 5th grade. Kate's class did Mexico, Grace's class did aboriginal Australia, and Bridget's class did modern Egypt.

More Socks

I knit the first of these socks in Hawaii. It may seem incongruous that I was knitting wool socks while at the beach. Of course, I didn't really knit them at the beach. I knit them on the bus, and in dark conference rooms with air conditioning and no windows while listening to talks about Diffusion Tensor Imaging and so on. And it was congruous with the novel that I was reading, which was about Newfoundland, and though it did not prominently feature wool socks, the characters would have been happier if it did.

Kate and Moira's Birthday Party

Yes, this giant trampoline now lives in my yard.