WEEK OF WINTER FUN!

I confess, I really dislike the snow and cold, and walking on ice.  I get colder quicker, the bright sun bothers my eyes and my nose can never get warm enough....this year, instead of fighting the current, I thought I'd row with it...  makes life a lot nicer for everyone, then complaining about it.  I quote one of my late father's friends...a diamond in the rough...Bill Gerlach (yes, the one of the original owners of Gerlach's bowling alley), and that is....  "No sense in being a downer...nobody will want to be around you, and then you'll have no friends!"...I often share this with Tommie...who's taken the bait...but, shouldn't I be practicing what I'm teaching him?  Yeah, I think so, too.

Back to winter fun.... 

In spite of a hum-dinger cold...no fever-- just bad cough... I sent out a group email to our homeschool co-op, inviting everyone to "Recess on Wednesday at the Sledding Hill"...  it was a beautiful day- sunshine and pretty warm.    We didn't have a big turn-out, but sometimes that's how it goes.  The families that did show up had a blast and we had lots of good conversations...walking away and feeling re-charged, from the inspiration!  It was good for everyone!

We also had the opportunity to go  cross-country skiing with our Cub Scout den right here, at beautiful Camp Holaka.  One of our Cub mom's is a teacher and had access to 10 pair of ski's and boots and generously offered them to us!  The boys earned their ski beltloop, burned off some boy-energy and ate pizza from Little Squeezers...also had hot chocolate afterwards...  I know, hot chocolate and pizza?  Great combo...but, remember these are tough little boys!

T-bird (Tommie) had a rough night of hacking and coughing and is sleeping as I write...  I plan to give him a light day...which includes:  making a crystal garden out of charcoal and food coloring (I've been wanting to do this forever), finishing up The Whipping Boy, having him wind up one of his American Chillers books, watching a movie on George Washington and "hopefully".... sketching out his body on a big piece of paper and begin to fill in body parts.  He is doing a report on kidney's for his homeschool class.... 

I am in the mood to scrapbook!