A bit of snow, slush, rain and a wee little snowman for my Auntie in Alaska

Finally, something to write about.  We postponed school this morning.  Something that's awful hard for me to do but we had snow last night.  A good six inches fell and by this afternoon it may be all gone.  I have never experienced such crazy winter weather in any other state than the grand state of Washington.  Nothing prepares you for temperature swings of 40 degrees in a 12-24 hour period.  I know even the native, multiple generation Washingtonians have trouble figuring out which "layers" to wear each day.  Me, I go with the long sleeve shirt and fleece vest.  If you ever look in my closet you would see a rainbow of fleece vest.  These things rarely wear out and they fit at nearly any weight.  Priceless.  Genius really.

I don't have any pictures of my 7 year old because by the time I made it outside - he had already been hit by a snowball in the face and was crying and flinging wet snow gear everywhere.   So, I have a few pics of my book end kids. 



This new camera really captures his eyes nicely.  The little point and shoot I use to use always gave him red eye.



They are working on making a snow fort.

The wee little man.

Back to School...

Vacation is over and we are back to the routine of school.  The oldest asked yesterday when we were going to start again and when I said tomorrow he said "oh good."  This morning he was happy to be back to the routine and he even said school was too easy today.  I like that when we have vacation now I really let the kids have a vacation.  When they were in public school I always tried to cram extra learning into vacation days.  Vacation days now are very unstructured except for meals and the kids get a good break.

Today we got back into things with the major subjects.  We played math bingo called VALUE instead of starting a new lesson.  They worked in some workbooks we did a craft that came from a HIGH FIVE magazine, went outside and also to the library.  Here are a few pics from our paper bag town craft.

Happy New Year

A New Years Day

Sunset

Inspired

By A Friend.

Trying out my new camera.  I think I'll keep it.

Shot from the back porch at my Mom's.