A Long Absence

Sometimes when the house is really messy I tell the kids that it would be easier to move than to clean it. And right now it would be easier to make up a new family and start over on a new blog than to update this one. However, since I like this family and would rather write about them than a pretend one, and I think a synopsis of everything we've done since October 9th (my last post) would bore everyone to tears, I'm going to pick up right here, right now, and just act like I've been updating all along and you haven't missed anything. It's happy here in my little mind.



Bram joins us in the schoolroom every day. He spends some of his time hanging out in the swing or the bouncy seat, but mostly he just wants to be held and talked to and played with and doesn't understand when the sisters are busy with other things. He sleeps in the sling while I carry him around and loves watching everything that's going on.

As I write this, I'm sitting at the kitchen table watching the girls play in the backyard in the snow...again. I just spent 20 minutes getting them buttoned, wrapped and bundled for the cold...again. They've been watching the snow come down all day as we've tried to do school...again. And in a few minutes they'll come inside dripping wet, cold and tired...again. The snow was cute and fun at first but we live in the south for a reason and I'm over winter now. It's snowing harder as I write this like it's just taunting me.

This is a snow family that Connie and Belle made while we were waiting for Kevin to drive home from Philadelphia one weekend (after getting stuck up there because of, naturally, MORE snow.) They used up all the snow in the front yard and had to use buckets to bring more from the back. I especially like Baby Bram Snowman on the end.

We just finished up an Olympic unit and had lots of fun studying the different events in the winter Olympics, famous athletes and the countries participating, but again, MORE snow and cold weather talk. It seems to be our theme right now but here's hoping that with March coming in like a lion, it'll warm up and get pretty in time for it to go out like a lamb.