Thursday, May 11, 2023

Togas and a Police Escort

Some interesting goings-on in our family lately:


Daniel and several of his friends from church play D&D together once a month,
but the leader of their group recently moved out of state.
No problem--they've just started meeting over Zoom.
It works pretty well, except the size of their group was bogging things down a bit, 
so they've decided to split into two smaller groups.


Joy attended her high school's annual Latin Club banquet today.
Most of the students showed up in traditional white togas,
but Joy marches to the beat of a different "tympanum."
She's the one on the far right wearing a greige toga
over a tunic studded with Minecraft diamond pickaxes.


In other news, I arrived home from an errand yesterday afternoon
to find a police car parked on our driveway.
Apparently, Todd decided to go for a walk all alone on a very busy street,
and someone called the police to make sure he got home OK.
The officer was very polite and understanding,
and after he left I made sure to talk with Todd about places he isn't allowed to go alone yet.

While it certainly got my heart pumping to arrive home and see a policeman at my house,
I also felt grateful that we live in a town where neighbors look out for each other
and the police have nothing more pressing to do on a Wednesday afternoon
than making sure a third grader gets home safely.

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