It was a quiet Christmas this year, relatively speaking: just the four of us, with an occasional cameo by Hana. The kids insisted on putting all the candles on Don’s cake- unfortunately some of them collapsed into the center before he could blow them out. Kade stayed awake through the entire nutcracker (good), but refused to put on the dress jacket his mother bought him (bad). In general it was not a Christmas with a surfeit of filial piety.
Over New Year’s we went out to Santa Cruz. The weather mostly cooperated, allowing us to hike down to the San Lorenzo River and to go to the beach.