Brianna and I were just doing this money adding worksheet. I was saying something like, "There is 1 quarter," and she would tell me to write down 25. When I said, "There are 4 dimes," I expected her to tell me to write down 4 tens, but she immediately said, "40." I said, "Wow! That was fast! How did you know that." She said, "Well, you know last year we counted by tens," and proceeded to start counting by tens. I said, "But you told me what to write much faster than you can count by tens to 40." She said, "Hmm. I guess I just knew that." I said, "I think what you were doing was multiplying. Did you know that you can multiply?" She said no, so I said, "What's ten times 3?; what's ten times 6?;" etc. She nailed them all, and then said, "Well, I guess I've been multiplying my whole life!" I love it when learning feels that way!

So night before last, when Brianna and I were sitting in the hot tub, she said "You know, when I first got in, the heat was overwhelming, but now it feels just right." I thought, "Wow, I wish I could get past the point where life feels overwhelming that quickly." So that is why yesterday morning at 5:00, Paul and I probably woke the neighborhood with our shouts of "Thank you, Jesus!" when we learned that his office would be closed for the day. It closes whenever Dallas ISD or Garland ISD closes, and yesterday was a snow day, well--not a snow day, maybe an ice day, ---well, maybe a we-just-don't-think-it's-supposed-to-be-this-cold-here day. We were enormously grateful and had a lovely restful catch-up day.