Today is the new year's first day of school! With Harrison sleeping soundly in the car, the only sound I hear is that of my fingers on the keyboard. Bliss! Better still, Thatcher and Hadley will now be going to school three days a week!!! I'm already hatching schemes for what I can do with an extra four hours on my hands. Somehow, though, I am confident Harrison has his own ideas about how we will occupy our Thursday mornings.
We rang in the new year in San Antonio, celebrating Xandra's wedding. We toured the Alamo, visited the zoo, dined on the River Walk, were serenaded by Mariachis, danced and danced and danced some more at the reception, and trekked out to Floresville for a post-wedding Menudo brunch at Xandra's parents' home. The kids are now officially half-Mexican. With mom and Cecil joining us for the trip, we shared two rooms at the El Tropicano. Thatcher slept in his own bed; Harrison didn't sleep at all; and Hadley slept...with a monster. After our first night in the hotel, Hadley, who was sharing a room with mom and Cecil, started growling at breakfast. It was a dead-on impersonation of Karl Childers from Sling Blade. When mom asked her what she was doing, she replied, "I heard that sound in my room last night. It was a monster." Maybe now Papa Cecil will believe he snores.
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