Blood worm moon

Miriam decided to stay up until the lunar eclipse. She was in good company—Andrew and I are usually up until around 2:00 working, anyway. She cleaned the kitchen, did her math lessons, and who knows what else (worked on driver's ed, perhaps). 

Benjamin woke up around 1:30 coughing and sneezing. 

Allergy season is upon us...but I also think the kids may have picked up a cold. 

When Phoebe woke up at 2:00 and wandered down to Andrew's office to say hello (she doesn't usually get to see him on Thursdays, but was already awake when he left for campus around 6:00 this morning), we decided we may as well wake everyone else up as well.

It's not every day we get to interrupt the conversation between the sun and the moon, after all!

Naturally all the pictures I took of the moon with my phone were terrible quality. So we will leave that sort of documentation to the professionals. 

But here's our crew, standing in the middle of the cul-de-sac at 2:30 in the morning (like normal people):

And here's everyone with the moon behind them, looking like they belong on an album cover or something:

Here are the boys getting comfy while waiting for totality:

At the moment of totality Alexander and Zoë chorused, "The blood moon rises once again. Please, be careful, Link..."

Here's Miriam trying to take some shots of the moon:

And here's Andrew explaining how we've really messed with moth behaviour, what with our artificial lights:

Now the kids are getting settled back to sleep. 

Rachel and Miriam have seminary early in the morning (best of luck to them) and Andrew's been up and moving since 6:00 this morning as well (he just got home from work at 11:00 pm). 

Tomorrow morning will be interesting for sure...but worth it...to get to marvel at the moon.

(And how fun to have an eclipse like this during Ramadan!)

It looks like there's another lunar eclipse on the docket next March for our area...