Sigh...

Just feeling tired and worn out.

I should concentrate on what to be thankful for.

Jet's singing in the backyard while playing volleyball with John.  It's nigh on operatic.  He's taken a keen interest in playing on the keyboard we have downstairs as they got new keyboards at school for his music classes along with a climbing wall in PE, so he's been doing more of those things.

It's pretty cool.

Jet gets the week off and we're going to do some exploring around Denver and around town and try not to just stay at home and play video games and the like.

I found out that the paper I don't like that much in my books is a 20 lb paper, but that the Rhodia pads have a 21.3 lb paper.  Meep.  I doubt that I can find that at Office Max.  I probably should look for some 24 lb cotton bond or something like that for the books I want to do. 

That and spinning and knitting are the things that I should probably just focus on for a bit.  Lots of Christmas presents to get done, too.  *laughter*

Sigh...

Just feeling tired and worn out.

I should concentrate on what to be thankful for.

Jet's singing in the backyard while playing volleyball with John.  It's nigh on operatic.  He's taken a keen interest in playing on the keyboard we have downstairs as they got new keyboards at school for his music classes along with a climbing wall in PE, so he's been doing more of those things.

It's pretty cool.

Jet gets the week off and we're going to do some exploring around Denver and around town and try not to just stay at home and play video games and the like.

I found out that the paper I don't like that much in my books is a 20 lb paper, but that the Rhodia pads have a 21.3 lb paper.  Meep.  I doubt that I can find that at Office Max.  I probably should look for some 24 lb cotton bond or something like that for the books I want to do. 

That and spinning and knitting are the things that I should probably just focus on for a bit.  Lots of Christmas presents to get done, too.  *laughter*

The Denver Art Museum

We ended up spending most of the day at the Denver Art Museum. It had just reopened at the beginning of the year in a new facility. And I asked John to get us the year's membership rather than just the day's entry fees. There are two special shows going on, and I really wanted to just wander around freely sometime. It would be a good day excursion

The museum had a number of "backpack tours" for kids. Each kid could check out a backpack and take it to a particular gallery and the backpack would contain items that pertained to the art in the gallery. The Oceana one had a beautiful cloth book with pockets that contained puzzles, card games, and, at the end, a little cardboard crocodile box with the treasures from the story in the book in it. The one from the Maya period pieces had sections on the rain forest sounds itself, on jaguars, snakes, and birds. The snake section included a real rattle snake rattle, skull, and shed skin to actually touch, along with 'find me's for the various snake sculptures in the gallery.

There were even Game Boy tours, that had puzzles that included finding certain works of art and actually looking at them very closely to find certain patterns.

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The Denver Art Museum

We ended up spending most of the day at the Denver Art Museum. It had just reopened at the beginning of the year in a new facility. And I asked John to get us the year's membership rather than just the day's entry fees. There are two special shows going on, and I really wanted to just wander around freely sometime. It would be a good day excursion

The museum had a number of "backpack tours" for kids. Each kid could check out a backpack and take it to a particular gallery and the backpack would contain items that pertained to the art in the gallery. The Oceana one had a beautiful cloth book with pockets that contained puzzles, card games, and, at the end, a little cardboard crocodile box with the treasures from the story in the book in it. The one from the Maya period pieces had sections on the rain forest sounds itself, on jaguars, snakes, and birds. The snake section included a real rattle snake rattle, skull, and shed skin to actually touch, along with 'find me's for the various snake sculptures in the gallery.

There were even Game Boy tours, that had puzzles that included finding certain works of art and actually looking at them very closely to find certain patterns.

( Cut for length. )