today was labeeby's birthday, so we made an extra effort to group-zoom call her.
another corona test for felix, so we hope he's out of quarantine early, but probably he doesn't get the test result early enough.
agnes and i make origami box together. she loved making it, and then she got the bug and started making new ones. she cut her own teeny-tiny square pieces (which weren't quite squares) and colored them individually, and it was a bit heartbreaking that it didn't quite fit together.
the strangest part of the day was the moment when we opened aunt frieda's (probably cursed, let's be honest) jewelry box of not very valuable things and doled them out to the people who were interested. it turns out that felix wanted most a pin and agnes wanted a magnifying glass. we know because mary's idea was to hold a silent auction. we thought for sure it was going the other way around. but the biggest surprise was a stupid old fountain-pen which sparked an unexpected battle between everyone. everyone went nuts about it. we tried making a writing test, but that hurt everyone's feelings.
we soothed some hurt-feelings by watching singin in the rain, a perennial favorite, and the kids went right to sleep while i stayed up late talking to bruno and manuela.
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