Ok, so I am not very good at keeping up with this blog. It seems that my brain by the end of the day is almost always to tired to think, let alone write a recap. I will try and be better though. :)
This month has been a crazy one! We have had some most unusual weather for Texas, which included almost a week of from school due to ice and snow, then the next week another day off! Cabin fever definitely set in or our household. The first week, I though "No big deal, it will sleet and we will be in the house for a couple days" so I went to the grocery store just to stock up for dinner for the next couple nights. Little did I know that we would be housebound for the next 5 days! Micah ended up venturing out to go to work after the first day, so he made some stops at the nearby Kroger a couple times that week on his way home.
I think the worst part of it was that it was just ice, no snow until the last day. It wasn't even possible to go outside and have fun b/c there was nothing but a sheet of ice on the ground that was about and inch thick. Since my kids are not accustomed to ice skating yet, we decided that indoors was the best place to be. I have to say, for being stuck in the house all week, the kids did great! I think it was more my own cabin fever that drove me more crazy! We stayed entertained with books, art projects, computer games, leapster, homemade obstacle courses, and toys. I was proud b/c we didn't use the Wii all week, although I would have been open to it! Aiden was just never really interested. We watched a couple movies (Baylie has discovered a new love of the Barbie movies), drank a lot of hot chocolate, and even made some snow ice cream on Friday! :)
The house stayed somewhat comfortable despite the temperatures in the single digits and teens outside, with fire logs burning pretty much all day and the heater, which I waited to go out the entire time, but it stayed running! Aiden and I preferred to stay in sweats and "comfy clothes," while Baylie felt that is was 100% appropriate to wear this:
That girls amazed me with her lack of sensitivity to cold at times. She was also quite happy to be in her Rapunzel dress most of the time as well.
At last on Friday the snow came! We were so excited!!! We got about 6-8 inches of snow. We spent most of the day outside in between hot chocolate breaks. We started out just making snow angels and throwing snow (it was too powdery to pack into anything), then ended up sledding down the front yard in the empty box from our fire logs. :) Our neighbor was then kind enough to let us borrow this hard plastic sheet to use as a sled. We walked up to Aiden's school to try it out on the hills, but there were a bunch of older kids on the hill, so we decided to try the smaller hills a couple times then the kiddos were ready to go back home. I have not ever seen this much snow in Texas. I was joking that our kids will grow up thinking that this is a typical winter in Texas, as this happened 3 times this year!
We were glad to get defrosted and have some nicer temps this past weekend! We had a busy weekend! On Saturday, I helped out with our Sunday School class to serve lunch for members of the Kairos ministry who are doing trainings at our church. It was very neat to be able to serve those who are willing to serve and minister to people whom most wouldn't spend their time with. Kairos is a ministry that goes into the prisons and helps those who have fallen off the path and trying to find their way back. After serving lunch, a few of the girls and I went to get lunch for ourselves then to shop for some sequins, feathers, and garter belts, otherwise known as...flapper wear! We had a murder mystery dinner to attend that night to benefit the youth mission trip. The setting was at the Juice Joint back in the 1920s. I was a flapper and Micah was a gangster, so we had to dress the part! It was a lot of fun, and Micah and I both made it out without killing or being killed. :)
Sunday brought the Imagination Movers concert after church. The kids were totally surprised and super excited to get there! Aiden wore his Imagination Movers outfit made by one of our friends, and Baylie opted out of her outfit and instead wore pink and red, as she wanted to be like Nina (IM fans, you will know who I am talking about). We headed out to the concert to be entertained first by Choo-Choo Soul ( I think Micah was very excited to see Genevieve in person ;) ), and they did not disappoint. They got the kids (and parents) up and moving before the show started. The Imagination Movers were great as always. We saw them in concert a couple years ago with Aiden, and they were just as good as the last time. They do a great job of keeping the kids happy without it being a beating for the parents. The music is catchy, and you find yourself singing it when the kids aren't even around. The kids had a blast and were worn out by the time the show was over.
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