The kiddos helped me make AJ’s requested chocolate/chocolate cake for his birthday and enjoyed eating a slice too. AJ got to open presents, relax with his drone, and while Brooke and Alex went to Parents Night Out I took him out for ribs for dinner. Happy Birthday AJ!
Laura got me a drone for Christmas and I’ve been learning to fly it a bit this past week. I even got the chance to try flying it in the snow last night.
I have been doing a good job keeping the kids busy while they have been home for six days with the snow and this morning I arranged for us to go jumping at the trampoline park and then lunch as a family at a new pizza place. During lunch Brooke whispered AJ something. When I got home I took a shower and when I got out Brooke had prepared a relaxing time for me because ‘I do a lot and that is a lot of work.’ She had (with AJ’s help) made me a cup of tea and found a tupperwear with which I could soak my feet in warm water. Then on her own she got my book, my water, and a blanket for me. AJ said she set it up all on her own, even choosing which tea by smelling it. It was a very sweet thing for her to do. She wanted to snuggle with me for a bit and then have me read her a book. Then she played with AJ and Alex and I got to read for quite a while by myself. It was very relaxing!
Wednesday January 3rd they closed school early for potential snow which canceled Brooke’s class because she is afternoon Kindergarten. Around 8pm on Wednesday it started to snow and it continued to do so until about 3pm on Thursday. It snowed about 10 inches with much larger snow drifts. We spent the first day enjoying the powder, shoveling the driveway, doing a bit of backyard sledding, attempting to make a snowman in powder, making snow angels, lots of snow tasting and having a fire and an snow cold beer. I created Snow School, to keep the kids busy with age appropriate work for each of them, and snowflake crafts which we did Friday. Then we drove out a bit to a nearby park to try some sledding, unfortunately the wind was so bad we couldn’t stay long so we ended up seeing how bad the roads were and had lunch out as a family. The kids then enjoyed playing in the snow around the house. Sometime this weekend a snow fort was built, the front step sled path perfected. We played outside everyday until Monday when the snow was supposed to snow melt so we went to the trampoline place instead, however, nothing melted Monday. Yesterday the kids went outside with AJ when it was 50 degrees and made a snowman out of the melting snow. We are now home 8 days with the snow and school has been canceled for the last 6 days and it’s not looking like school will be back tomorrow. Send us warm thoughts!
