Thursday, March 16, 2017

Birthdays, Ides of March snow, etc

When life is too full to stop and analyze ...then it's too full
On February 25, hubby and I were at a funeral and the kids were home, the 19 y.o. was in charge, thankfully. They got the weather alert and headed to the basement, we sat oblivious in the church until the electricity blinked, then I realized that the roaring I'd thought was a truck was actually wind.
Everyone was OK at home, but just a few miles north of our place there was quite a bit of damage.
The clouds you see on that picture were deemed "straight-line-winds"...well whatever.

When your marshmallow runs out of your smore, you just wrap it around your finger and rescue it.
Most of us are wrapped around that little finger too.
Especially the daddy that made the tin can stilts for her to try her skilz.


Then someone had the nerve to turn 17! Can't quite believe it.
He requested a cheese cake.
Since he threatened to eat all the pie crust the other week, Hope made a batch for him and packaged it in a hot chocolate box.



Shekinah's class made graham cracker houses on one of the warmest days this winter.
Little did we know that just a few days later we would FREEZE.

When you just don't need more bread in your life.

EMT in training? She never realized that one of her Christmas gifts was a CPR DVD.

She claimed she could feel our pulses, but when everyone's pulse turned out to be the same
I realized she was counting the seconds on the clock. Baby steps...

Then it snowed! and of course heels and bare feet make great footwear when you are checking the snowfall accumulations. I think our children were ready for spring, they didn't go out in the snow very much. 

They thought bumping volleyball in freezing temperatures was a good idea.


With one thing and another Parker hadn't visited in a few weeks, they played store and McDonalds.
"one coffee drink please and french fries"

We almost had a state of emergency this morning, we were down to the emergency rations of peanut butter! So you have a staple (besides milk) that your family needs every day?

I have a hat problem....I have a tea problem too, but that is another story. I started crocheting one night and it turned into a hat!? So I tried another and then I bought more yarn...I haven't bought more fabric this year though. Now Pinterest keeps showing me free crochet patterns along with my math games and reading helps.

Shekinah is doing better in her after school homework, we have greatly reduced breakdown time by letting that dreaded Victory Drill book till Friday and Saturday and we do the required four lessons on those days (they get out of school at 1:15 on Fridays). I really didn't know if it would work, but it seems she is just that much more relaxed and we can whiz through them in no time.


Countdown time to new grandson --about 6 weeks
Countdown to wedding...house under contract, new job secured (he's currently serving in VS), and wedding fabrics on the shelf.

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