Christmas cat

We spent Christmas Eve with Richard and his annoying cat, who bit M and is unrepentant.

Here are some gifts that we got this year that we really like.

Fancy jacket for H from Grandma

Puffer coat Pusheen for M from H

Weird reading list

Halmoni recently sent us an old summer reading list that M put together before her senior year in high school, and it was pretty weird (lots of Greek tragedies). M thinks the boys have pretty weird reading habits themselves. Here is a list of the books she ordered for them in Amazon in 2025 (doesn't even include all the strange books they forced her to buy at the college bookstores they visited). Can you guess which boy ordered which book?

Python All-in-One for Dummies

The Art of Japanese Joinery

The Language Game

Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

The Brothers Karamazov

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Lifespan - Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To

Pragmatism

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Essential Dewey, Vol. 1

AP Music Theory

The Fellowship of the Ring

Children of Time

Babel

Accents of English 1

Continued Fractions

Catch-22

Im Westen Nichts Neues

Anna Karenina

The New Oxford Annotated Bible

The Basque Language

Happy Thanksgiving!

Finnegan's birthday

Since we know Finnegan's birthday is November 15, we threw him a little shark-themed birthday party. H has always claimed that Finnegan wasn't going to be born until November 15, so we set his birthday to 0.

California Part 3

We visited two colleges near San Francisco, then dropped D off at the airport to go back to work. Then we headed to Socal, where we visited two more colleges, went to Ventura Pier, and braved Magic Mountain Fright Fest before heading back home.

California Part 2

We had a free day, so we headed to the Computer History Museum and the U.S.S. Hornet for some educational fun.

California Part 1

We decided to go to California for fall break to visit colleges and chill. We brought Snoopy and Finnegan. Snoopy wanted to see the ocean, so we headed to Santa Cruz for the sunset.