Howdy Y'all

Madison wanted to try another costume on today, her Southern Belle costume she got at Christmas.  She was quite happy with this one, although it's not terribly practical for sitting around playing video games!

Daddy got a game a few months ago during the October season, because it was so cheap, and because he used to play it... years ago.  It's called "Darkstalkers," and is basically a Street Fighter-type game that uses classic movie monster themes, as created by Japanese artists at CAPCOM.  It's a fun old game, and Madison was enjoying it so much that she wanted to keep on going with it.  And she wants to play it more later on this week, which we may wind up doing.  Her favorite character is currently one that looks like Little Red Riding Hood, a character we knew as BB Hood, or Baby Bonnie Hood.

She's one of those cute little characters that has all this potential for violence, which is always fun when you pit her up against all these legit monsters and fully weaponized characters that stand twice as tall as she is.  Madison had a great time with this.

We were back to the pointy shoes tonight, dancing on pointe, and loving it.  Or, at least to begin with.  Madison's quote about the shoes, which she said everyone else in her class was saying:  "I can't wait to get these shoes on!  I can't wait to get these shoes off!"

Madison was doing a bit of homework tonight, practicing her speech, and studying for her "big" math test tomorrow.  Math is one of those subjects that requires very little effort for her.  Either you know it or you don't, and she seems to know everything rather well.

This morning while Madison was at school, Mommy and Daddy were at the chiropractor, which was a pretty standard visit, except the post-visit to the special "therapy beds" in a low-lit room.  Mommy got on this one table that massaged her back, while Daddy was on his back on the "spinomatic," this amazing roller massage table from what must be like decades ago.  It's such a vintage, solid piece of machinery, and it is so wonderfully retro.  You just admire the look of these things, and yes, they still work well of course.

Afterwards, we got our lithographs for "Coco," which we didn't get to see in theaters, but we'll see it soon enough.  We got home just in time to see Madison home from school, and got busy with all the studying, homework, and all the other work Madison had to do.  We stayed on task though, and got it done, and were on our way to ballet tonight.

On the way home, we used our free Chick-Fil-A card for dinner for Madison, and Daddy took advantage of a "Breakfast at Dinner Time" meal, and we had a bit of a Daddy-Daughter Date Night, although we'll be back again on Saturday for that sort of thing.

We got home, and continued our books tonight, the devotional and the other book we've been reading as well, and then it was time for more "research" for Daddy and Mommy:  watching "Jack the Giant Slayer."  It was a fun movie, certainly not a bad one.  It was fun, and we were processing the whole idea of beans, giant slayers, and so forth.  There might be something to that, but we'll see.

Anyway, it was a full day, a usual sort of Monday with all kinds of stuff going on with school and ballet and work.  But each day we have is a gift, and it was a nice one.