a lot to say

Well, I seem to have come through a pretty low time here. Sometimes I go through these. Hopefully, we are all in the clear.

I have taken some pictures, but just couldn't seem to get myself in the right mindset to write anything... maybe I just should have posted the pictures. In the past... whatever. So here we go into the future.

We took the kids to Amherst this past Saturday. It was really wonderful, even better than I thought it was going to be. The short story is: we took them to Hawley's for lunch, tried to watch the beginning of the iditarod on my ipad at Mcdonalds, but it didn't seem to work right, went to the Yankee Candle Factory in Deerfield (that is where the pictures are from, more about that later), took them to Bueno y Sano for supper, then out to the faculty dance concert for the five college dance. I am so happy with my kids. They were amazing, and they seemed to really like the concert too. I am a bit surprised about that. But, especially Nora, took a real interest in each performance. Henry was interested as well, but Nora was really interested and even had picked out her favorite piece, not one that I would have picked lol, but I was surprised that she had already formed opinions about it.

I love dance. I don't dance. But, I love to watch it, at least at that level. Every time I walk away really filled and inspired. This is a really hard thing to explain to those of you that have seen only what is presented to the general public, but there is an underlying, what I would consider to be a purer, art form there that is amazing. Really love it, without embarrassment.

So, back to Yankee Candle. Those who haven't been, it is a big place that is set up almost as a mini Disney land of candles... haha. Well, that's what it is! The rooms are all fantastically decorated and it even snows in one of them. (That is what they are trying to catch in the first picture) Henry and Nora absolutely loved it. They were really amazed by the magic of it all. They even held hands spontaneously in some of the rooms, just caught up in the magic of it all. I really really enjoyed seeing them so blown over. Jenny was happy, I was happy. Just a beautiful day. And.... to top it all off, I saw Steve Gonsalves from Ghost hunters. He was shopping with some girl. Totally him for sure. I creeped out and snuck a picture of him... posted below. ;)

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