Free at last!

All the finals are done, the end-term projects, the tests, everything. We're on vacation.

It's been an interesting term; having a baby, helping Dad with his heart surgery/recovery, dealing with school, etc., etc..... Somehow we made it through, and even passed our classes at that. Imagine.

Freya's been smiling quite a bit lately. No laughs yet, but we're working on it. Odin comes home singing a new song almost every day. He's having a great time at school. Today he came home and was singing We Will Rock You by Queen pretty well, which is an interesting coincidence because I was practicing the solo at the end of that song a few weeks ago, so maybe we can play/sing it together now that I'll have time to practice.

Alyssa's been talking about how relieved she is that she can spend some quality time with Freya now that the term is over. Actually, we've both talked about that. It's really nice being able to pay attention to our kids for once, led. than knowing in the back of our heads that there's still homework to get to. We said we wanted to plan next term better so we wouldn't have to bring work home with us.

Speaking of next term, we've already picked our classes, kind-of. Alyssa is in more of the same really; lots of music classes. She's working on a piece to be performed live (by her and one other instrumentalist) in the FMO concert next term. Should be interesting. Unfortunately her Gamelan class ended up being canceled.

Next term I'll be in Ancient Greek 102, Victory Art of Greece and Rome, and Intensive first-year Italian. Right now that last one is up-in-the-air if I can resolve an issue with a blocked History course I need for my major.

It's just so nice being able to hang out at home and do things we want to do without worrying about what we have to do.

That's all for now. I'll write more soon, now that I have time to!