6 or 8 inches or so. It was a wet snow, perfect for packing into snowmen, snowballs and pretty good for sledding. Sam’s friends watch her zoom down the hill at Meade Park on our old sled, “Cheetah.” I take some credit for today’s snowfall, since just last weekend I packed Cheetah away for the season.

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with his octagonal head. Sam agrees that geometry is fun.

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I’ll never forgot what 5-year old Sammy said the first time she saw Charlottesville’s Pavilion on the east side of the Downtown Mall: “THAT’s not the Pavilion!” (She was thinking of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, built in the 18th-19th centuries.)

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And I make my asthmatic kid scooter to the grocery store. What can I say? We have cabin fever.

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They make illness–and asthma attacks–much more bearable.

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aka Elizabeth Blackwell took care of her parents today. Now that she’s mostly recovered, it’s our turn with the bug.

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The neighborhood kitties love salmon skin.

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Or should I say, “Achoo Achoo?” Today Sam had a startling relapse 🙁 and a surprise mid-day nap (Heaven help me, will she sleep at all tonight?) And AC now seems to have succumbed to whatever bug she had. This evening Sam, feeling a lot better, read to AC from his favorite children’s book, Choo Choo, by Virginia Lee …

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