Carrie passed Snowplow 1 and I passed Basic 1 and 2! :)
We’ll be taking a break during the warmer weather, though. As much as I’d like to move on to Basic 3 and learn how to spin (haha) it just seems a little odd to put on winter coats and skate on top of frozen water when it’s 80+ degrees outside!
Finally, nearly two years after we had the bathtub replaced, I’ve gotten around to redecorating the room. Carrie wanted a pink bathroom, and I found an awesome pink, white and chocolate brown striped shower curtain, so we went with pink.
I’m not 100% thrilled with my painting job, but I am thrilled with overall effect. I really love the crisp white towels against the dark pink walls, although Carrie would far prefer pink towels! I still have to figure out what to do for curtains or blinds, but other than that the room is done.
Of course, now the nicest room in the house is the bathroom…which is kind of pathetic!
It’s warm. And snowmen don’t like warm so much…this picture was taken shortly before our snowman lost his head. Poor snowman!
They’re predicting over a foot of snow in the next 24 hours or so. Normally I’d scoff at this (I mean, it’s Rochester, and February, of course there’s going to be snow) but I’ve been stuck in the house with a sick child for three days and there is no milk or bread left. Bread I can make, but I don’t have a cow out back in reserve, so I guess I’ll have to brave the snow and the crowds and go find us some supplies…
I don’t really know where the time goes. Somehow it’s been over a month since I published all of my blog posts, and I really don’t know how or why. I thought I’d have so much more time after Carrie started school, but in reality I somehow have less time. And I have so many things that I could or should be doing in any given moment that sometimes I’m too overwhelmed to even pick one, and so I do none of those things.
If I could have any one super power, it would be the ability to control time. I’d like to hit “pause” on my life now and then, I think.
Be it hereby resolved that:
1. I will finish more projects than I start this year. And “finish” can mean actually completing the project, ripping it out, or dropping the half finished parts off to Craft Bits & Pieces.
2. I will declutter my house. I am tired of living with all of this stuff. If someone came through my house while I was gone and cleared away 95% of the stuff, I wouldn’t miss it, so I ought to be able to get rid of it myself.
Carrie and I went to see the new Disney movie this afternoon. It was really good, and Carrie did very well even with the scary bits. I like how this Disney Princess was not waiting around for Prince Charming to make her life better and instead was working hard to try to make her dreams come true!
OK, I’m right up there with Anna’s feelings on snow. Yep. It’s cold. And wet. And the boots I bought Carrie last week don’t fit right. (Side note: she has the skinniest little legs of any child I know, and I can’t zip the things up over tights, let alone socks or leggings – who on earth are these made for?!?) So I was very unprepared and unhappy to wake up to sleet hitting the window.
Slushy, wet, heavy snow everywhere, and a five year old in mary-jane style sneakers. Great combo, that.
At least Anna has hand-me-down boots and a winter coat that fit, so she’s stylin’ in the snow she’s not so sure she likes that much! (It would probably help if I could convince her to leave the mittens on her hands before touching that cold white wet stuff.)
There was a smattering of snow on the ground when we went out to wait for the bus this morning. Carrie was thrilled, running through the front yard in her sneakers (remind me to buy her some new boots soon!) and picking up the very packable snow to throw everywhere.
Anna’s not so sure about this cold, wet, white stuff. It’s cold. And wet. And did we mention cold??
I finally feel mostly back to myself. I was never officially tested, but the PA at my doctor’s office is pretty sure I had H1N1, followed by a sinus infection. Luckily (knock wood) nobody else in my family seems to have caught it. (Washing my hands several billion times in the past two weeks probably helped.) We haven’t had access to the vaccine for the kids, but I will definitely get it for them when/if it becomes available, because that is easily the sickest I’ve ever been in my adult life, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.