Monday

BOXING: We're still working our way back to 'normal' here at MPA post-holiday doings. One of the projects we had to get done was a birthday board for January. Inspired by all of the post-Christmas boxes about the house, we decided to go with a cats-in-boxes theme. 

We printed out a bunch of cats (art style inspired by the card game Cat Box), wrapped small empty boxes, and put name tags with birthdates on them. We also made a birthday banner and a 'table,' along with a cake atop it. Yesterday afternoon we installed it. Hope the kids at school like it!

FIGURATIVELY: While I was down in Vegas last week, darling daughter-in-law Rachel introduced me to a cool TED talk about how to read Chinese.  It won't make you become an expert, but it's an interesting foray into reading the foreign (to us) language.

Check it out here: