December 7, 2005

December 7, 2005
Waking up to -16 degrees is just wrong!!! The kids almost froze to death waiting for the bus. We hear it’s a new record low for today and we were here to witness it. Oh happy day! It has just been so cold lately and we are expecting more snow tonight. Thank heavens we have a great home with a working heater!!! I was supposed to travel to Manchester with the Stake on Sunday, but we got like 6 inches of snow over night, so we just stayed here instead.

It seems this time of year is busy busy busy. We did finally get the tree up this weekend. (We were quite slow!) It seems we still aren’t out of the stage of having kids that need to touch the tree, but at least she hasn’t discovered she can unwrap the presents underneath. Alayna does like to ring the little bells on it, but shakes the whole tree. I see disaster in the future.

Bob took me out to lunch yesterday. Dates are just so enjoyable, even when it is 1 degree outside! Kayla has been doing great in her volleyball games. Marisa even expressed interest in maybe playing the next session. We cleaned out the toy room and packed away most of the stuff (it just gets too crazy in there), so now the younger kids have been finding fun things to play in there (since being outside is out of the question.)

On Monday, for FHE, we did a whole bunch of fun science experiments for my class. The kids had the best time. I have to say some didn’t work as well as others, like the egg that fell to the floor. But we had a great time!

We have been having a wonderful experience reading the entire Book of Mormon as a family. We are in 3rd Nephi right now and trying like crazy to finish it by the end of the year. Amazingly the kids have really enjoyed it. I read to them and since it is at an accelerated pace it reads much like a novel. We talk about our favorite characters, etc. We decide Teancum is pretty cool and we need a big painting of him for our living room (Big hint to Jonathan!!) In fact, Marisa has loved it so much, she is giving a copy to her Social Studies teacher. They have been talking about Mexico and South and Central America and their history, so she thought her teacher might be interested. It has been an amazing learning experience. It is so different to read it out loud and to have to try to explain it to children. Anyway, wish us luck in finishing!

I guess nothing else major has been going on. We have a lot of fun things planned for our Christmas vacation since Bob gets off the whole time the kids do. We are planning our Star Wars marathon and other such fun activities. Hope you all are having a warm and wonderful week!!