Lovely things to share

My adult ed evening class is over! I REALLY enjoy teaching it, but at the same time it's so much extra lesson planning and time away from home, it's hard. So tonight I'm going nowhere, we're all going to sit around and carve our pumpkin.

I picked a thesis advisor for next year. And the first part of a topic. I want to look at a philosophical theme like "fate" or "soul" and see how it's applied in Greek pagan texts, rabbinic texts, Christian texts, and Philo (first Jewish philosopher to meld Greek phil with Judaism). I don't know what the topic will be yet, but it will be FUN!

And last but not least, my family is beyond adorable. When Xander kept asking for that one last bedtime story, my husband said no, stories were over, it was time for bed. But Xander looked SO disappointed that Jonathan said he would tell him a story instead. The story consisted of a little boy who didn't want to go to bed, so he stayed up late late late until he finally fell asleep when the cat came to snuggle with him. But he was so tired and grumpy the next day he couldn't enjoy seeing the school bus or the train or any other fun things that his mommy and daddy took him to. He had to go to bed early the next night because he was so tired and grumpy! Finally he saw the wisdom of bedtime and decided that sleep was his friend after all. You should have SEEN Xander in all this... he was nodding along vehemently in sympathy with this mysterious little boy in the story, and then listened so intently to the last part, that when Jonathan finished, he lay right down with his bear and didn't put up any fuss. I wanted to cheer for both of them.