Happy 2024 from the ClarkenSteins! Hope you and yours are having a great start to the new year. We had a solid if somewhat quiet 2023, keeping busy with work and school and all our outside stuff with no huge changes.
Misha (now 12!) and Lev (now 7!) continue to be very busy; Misha is pretty focused; he’s still on the swim team and is playing both violin and piano while also learning how to code. Lev hasn’t settled on his things yet but is playing piano and this year tried out ballet, soccer, swimming, karate, and science camps; seems like he’s going to focus on soccer, but we’ll see after basketball camp!
This year we traveled less, but we made a trip to Door County and another to Kentucky to see Mammoth Cave and go glamping. Natalia is enjoying spending lots of time with the kids while she figures out her next career steps. Dave is still administering at UWM, staring at spreadsheets and going to spreadsheet-intensive meetings. Increasingly, the spreadsheets have interactive visuals!
We hope the world is treat you and yours with kindness; we feel so much gratitude to have relative peace and a solid ground cover of snow.