December/January

Guess I should tell about our December/January events. For Christmas ,the children searched around the house for the perfect gift to give their siblings. Jack decided to make everyone something out of duct tape. Yes, a gun, backpack, cell phone holder, $20 bill, purse,wallet, etc. can all be successsfully made out of duct tape. He mentioned next he wants to make a suit out of duct tape to wear to church. That would be interesting and give people there something to talk about on the way home. hmmmmmm What do you say to that? Umm, "I don't think your suit will be warm enough in this winter weather." By spring he will surely forget about his master plan. :)



Let's see, other actitivities going on:

-- sledding, building cool igloos, making a fort out of mom's kitchen cabinets, playing fooz ball/ bopit, and building with blocks.

-- Baylie along with many other children put on a great musical, "Singin in the Rain". We all really enjoyed it. There are still days where someone bursts out in one of the songs.

--2 people injured their arm (a hyperextension and sprain) All are mended now.

--various winter illnesses:a few strains of the flu and some colds

--We enjoyed 3 great Christmas's with different family members. Always fun to get together, provided we don't over stay our visit. If we go past the alotted time there is crying, whining, fighting and other various activities that do not ehibit our parenting skills/ weekly character training/and regular child training in general. You can tell when our time is up.
-- New Years Eve was fun. Matt had to work, but the rest of us played various games and had several competitions......sit ups, push ups, splits, stand on one leg, etc. We'll just say mom's body is not quite back into tip top shape after her delivery in Sept. uuhhmmm. Needless to say, mom didn't win many of the contests. Then the annual drinking of the sparking grape juice.
That about sums up our last couple of months. Hope you all are doing well and staying warm. Until next time.....