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Holy smokes, have we been busy. The trip to Ireland in October, then a Texas Thanksgiving in November. We've been glad to be back home this month in our own beds.
We had company this week - friends from Houston who decided to brave the "frigid north" (to them, anyway). We had a blast with their adorable kids, hiking in sub-freezing temperatures at Radnor Lake, stomping on ice to see if it would break, and eating Korean food.
Abbey and I have both been catching up on our reading. She just finished "Nothing to Envy," a book about life in North Korea. I've been reading "Bloodlands," a book about eastern Europe and the horrific atrocities commited there in the 1930s and 1940s. Needless to say, our book discussions have been a little on the melancholy side. I wish I could read "The Rational Optimist" again after finishing "Bloodlands," if only to lift my spirits after reading such a sad book. Despite it's horrific nature, I recommend the book as a less-than-often-discussed history of the dangers of idealism, fanaticism, and a state without limits.