The girls are noticing that the days are shortening.
Little G laughed tonight when we were tying on her shoes to head out after supper:
"we're going shopping at night?!"
Living in a place where the day lengths through the year follow a sinusoidal curve, we rarely notice (or get to enjoy) the 12-hour days of the equinoxes... all too fast the sun's setting at 4:20 and the whole long winter has long dark evenings, too cold for playing outside.
Little G laughed tonight when we were tying on her shoes to head out after supper:
"we're going shopping at night?!"
Living in a place where the day lengths through the year follow a sinusoidal curve, we rarely notice (or get to enjoy) the 12-hour days of the equinoxes... all too fast the sun's setting at 4:20 and the whole long winter has long dark evenings, too cold for playing outside.
In the summer,
the girls are long in bed by the time the dark has completely blanketed us after 10pm.
the girls are long in bed by the time the dark has completely blanketed us after 10pm.
Then sometimes we get that lovely night, where Jeff and I clean up after our (always late) supper and do dishes, while it's warm enough that the girls want to play outside again.
They found their headlamps, world's most awesome present (from their backpacking aunt and uncle), and after a warning not to blind each other, set out in the back yard, always more fun in the mystery of the dark.
Now, the chill's set in, and they're happy to come in at dusk after a day out, and get cozy.
(I suppose we can soon get the headlamps out before dinner....)
(*sigh*)
They found their headlamps, world's most awesome present (from their backpacking aunt and uncle), and after a warning not to blind each other, set out in the back yard, always more fun in the mystery of the dark.
Now, the chill's set in, and they're happy to come in at dusk after a day out, and get cozy.
(I suppose we can soon get the headlamps out before dinner....)
(*sigh*)
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