December 20

It's only been a couple years since I moved out of Florida and yet I've come to recognize 38 degrees and sunny as a beautiful day. It's funny how quickly your perspective changes on these things when it's not 80 degrees every day of December. In my book, it's a welcome trade off to deal with the chillness of Ohio winter in exchange for the oppressive heat of the Florida summer.

We decided to take a walk down to the library in celebration of the slightly unfreezing temperature in order to pick some books and return some due ones. Fred picked out a book about a gorilla escaping from the zoo...the train from Spain was late today as the ape pulled the brake and made an escape...actually it was a different title about 70% less annoying than that one. Amelia wanted to get a book by Eric Carle about animal motion because it looked yummy (It doesn't matter for what reason she loves books, just as long as she loves them). I obliged both requests and headed back home with our fine literature.