This winter, Carson is playing in two basketball leagues plus flag football. Busy schedule. Today, he had four basketball games in a row at two different locations. Due to a time conflict, he played in just three. St Ignatius.

Rio Americano High School.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been relearning some dormant sewing skills. I haven’t made formal wear in over 30 years, but now I’m at the beginning of making a prom dress. The prom hasn’t been scheduled yet, but I need to start now .. as in, what if this doesn’t turn out well and Sophia needs to shop for a dress at the last minute. After the pattern arrived, I traced the pieces needed according to her measurements, found some fabric in a drawer that would work, and sewed a “muslin” – a practice garment to check the fit.

The muslin fit great. Next, order fabric. So far, so good.

at Kral’s. Jeff makes the best prime rib roast. There was a theme this year for the del Castillos:

Waiting for the adults to give the GO signal .. everyone on their own device.

I escaped before the chaos of gift opening began – lol. Great evening, lots of visiting, excellent meal!

at St Ignatius. I went to the 9:30a performance.

3rd and 4th grades don’t have buddy classes, they form the choir for school year.

Buddy classes: 8th and 2nd. Every group sings two songs, one is a traditional carol.

for all the District 1 commissioners and committee members.

Councilmember Lisa Kaplan:

At Thais and Lenin’s.

Sunday afternoon. While Sophia (and Mom) hosted a Friendsgiving celebration at home and Dad and Avery were in San Jose for a volleyball tournament (which they won), I had the good fortune to take Carson to his basketball game.

Thais and I finally found a day we could both go back to the woodworking class to finish our cutting boards.

Final touch: wood butter.

Thais had a laser image “burned” onto hers.

A better picture of mine.

A rainy morning but .. off I went to St Ignatius to see the 4th grade presentations of the saint each student had researched and crafted. St Hubert: patron saint of hunters, archers, foresters, trappers and the city of Liege.

I picked up the boys from St Ignatius after school. Avery is definitely getting better at popping a wheelie.

Carson and Hudson were doing their homework together via FaceTime (I think). I couldn’t help but hover a bit, out of curiosity, as they worked on a grammar assignment. Hudson’s mom was on the other end advising him. LOL – she and I both got stuck on sentence 7: find the “noncount noun.”

So .. we left it up to the boys to decide. 4th grade grammar has higher learning expectations than I remember.