Ho, Ho, Ho.

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Our lovely hostess.

It has been a busy few days here at the Villa Sternberg. Let's see, where do I start? Ah. It all starts on Tuesday, when, after Yamaarashi-chan's mother came and took her out to celebrate her older sister's legal adulthood, with all that it entails, Omaha, Kouryou-chan and I all went out to a pagan yule log festival that was actually a lot of fun. A lot of people we knew were there, including shemayazi, who was wondrous in gifting us with hand-made shawls and hats and who gave Kouryou-chan a fabulous gift of dress-up clothes.

We all lit the yule log and the ceremony went about as planned. Even little girls, and there were three of them, were well-behaved. We had a lot of fun.

Wednesday, I had to take Yamaarashi-chan to the physician because she was showing a particularly nasty cough. She did not enjoy the nasal swabs at all, but the test did come back that she did not have pertussis, just a sinus infection. Her physician said that she had seen twelve or thirteen cases come out of Yamaarashi-chan's school, which makes me wonder if there are that many parents out there keeping their kids off the Diptheria-Pertussus-Typhoid vaccine. After that, Omaha and I completed more shopping.