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Snow Day #6.
AAAgggghhhhh!!!! I'm losing my flipping mind.
We usually go somewhere everyday. At least one place. Look here's a normal week in our house:
Sunday - church in the morning, come home for lunch, try to talk dave into going somewhere exciting like the thrift store, we all go or dave stays home with the kids while I go to Joann's.
Monday - school in the morning, afternoon grocery trip
Tuesday - school in the morning, afternoon library trip
Wednesday - bible study at a friends house, school in the morning, afternoon try to think of somewhere to go....costco trip.
Thursday - school in the morning, afternoon grocery trip, home community at night
Friday - field trip to zoo or omsi or somewhere
Saturday - some event that's on the calendar or stay home and lounge on Dave
Yeah, so we go to the grocery store a lot. I'm not very organized when it comes to food in our house. Dave keeps telling me I should plan out the week and then go shopping, but, shoot, I like to have somewhere to go at 3:30 when I realize I don't have the food we need for the dinner I wanted. And who doesn't love a good trip to Winco's bulk section. Or Fred Meyer's bakery with free cookies for the kids (yes I know they're full of gross stuff. one or two or maybe even three gross cookies a week are totally in our food/health budget.)
Anyway.
This week its looked like this:
Sunday - Snow Day !!! Stay home and play in the snow with friends!!! This is exciting!!!!!
Monday - Snow Day !! School in the morning, nothing in the afternoon.
Tuesday - Snow Day! school in the morning, nothing in the afternoon. I'm a little stir crazy, so after the kids are in bed I go for the most exciting trip ever to Costco and two grocery stores. The highlight of the week so far.
Wednesday - Snow Day. again. sorta school in the morning. post office in the afternoon. Woo hooo!
Thursday - snow freaking day again. it's actually not that snowy of a day, but Dave took the van since the were predicting rain and a freeze (icey roads) and he was gone all day and night since he had Blazer game tickets. My friend Megan becomes the coolest person in the world when she calls and says shes going out can she bring us anything. With a fresh carton of milk, a movie and the all important package of fruit leathers in hand that afternoon we become almost cheerful again. We even go for a walk around the neighborhood since it's significantly warmer. It's in like the 30's or something. All is good until Breannan (who refuses to wear gloves) starts to cry and I notice his hands are red and it seems they are getting just a mite too cold. Oops. We get home and he recovers a little bit slower than I expected. Ooops again. That night I start to get excited about the next day cause it wasn't really snowy or icey all day and I have visions of running glorious errands all day long on Friday. (more yarn to finish a project on my knitting needles right nows, fresh books and movies from the library, one more post office trip for that last Christmas present... you know, important stuff.) Ahhh, Heaven. Places to go and things to accomplish.
Friday - snow FREAKING day!!!! AGGGHHH! It snowed in the night again. Again Dave wants to take the van to work so he won't, you know, slip and slide all over the roads and get stuck somewhere. (The van has some sort of traction control thing his little car doesn't.) Not like I'm going to actually drive anywhere with all three kids bundled up and risk the possibility of having to walk them home.
And that brings us to the present where I'm home schooling my children by movie (Leap Frog movies rock by the way) and trying to figure out what to do with ourselves.
This is Dave's last work day before his Christmas vacation - so I'm totally looking forward to having him around. Everything's better when Dave's around. Plus, we are going to go so many exciting places. Winco. The Post Office. I can't wait.