This February has been somewhat insane, weather-wise. After a couple of winter months with virtually no wintery weather, we suddenly got hammered with a couple of ice storms and a polar vortex. The kids had an entire week off of school for snow days, then went back for two days and then had another 3 days of snow days. A good portion of the city shut down - the schools and libraries were closed, the mail didn't run, the YMCA closed, and...other stuff, but it didn't actually affect me because we stayed home where it was warm. We watched movies and played games and read books and it was kind of awesome, honestly. (Of course i'm sure it'll suck if/when the kids have to go to school until July....)
In-between crazy weather days, we did manage to do a few things. Here are some of them.
On the 2nd, Beth and i had all of our youth group girls over to Beth's house to decorate cookies.
On the 4th, Zane got to go to the doctor for his yearly checkup. He's completely healthy and awesome and was completely thrilled that he didn't need to get any shots at all. (He just got all of his shots a couple of months ago.)
On the 5th, the kids and i all had dentist appointments. Nobody had any cavities. Yay!
On the 7th, we had book club at my house. Our book this month was "The Miniataurist," so we had all miniature food. And even though the weather was atrocious, nearly everybody was there. Fun!
On the 8th, we had pizza-movie night. Beth and my parents all came over, and it was super fun.
On the 9th, Katrina got a haircut. She got 5 inches cut off, and it's barely even noticeable.
On the 11th, the kids finally went back to school after almost two full weeks of snow days. Houston and Katrina actually had school every day this week. Zane had a snow day on Wednesday and then had a planned day off on Friday. He's going to die when he has to actually have a full week of school again.
On the 12th, we got another bout of terrible weather. The roads were horrible - that's a picture when i was sitting three cars back from my street, waiting and waiting and waiting to be able to just get home. There's a hill, though, and nobody could get up it going either direction. And yet, this was one day when all of the kids actually DID have school. I'm sure they would have had a snow day if they hadn't just had TEN SNOW DAYS in TWO WEEKS.
The 13th was Katrina's birthday! It was freezing cold and the snow was super deep, but she was a trooper and went out with me to take birthday pictures anyhow. Beth and my parents came over to celebrate her, and we had cake and ice cream, and she opened presents, and it was a really fun and laid-back birthday. And i really, really love this girl. She is just amazing and beautiful and just the sweetest girl in the history of the world. I keep waiting for her to become a typical bratty teenager, and she still hasn't.
And that brings us to today! It's Katrina's birthday weekend, so she has some friends over for the night. But tonight is also the school dance (Katrina's first real dance!), and so her friends all came over here to get ready and then came back afterwards to sleep, which is awesome, because that means that i get to take pictures beforehand and then hear all about the dance afterwards! Katrina was Very Unsure about going to the dance at all, and only decided to go after she found out that the friends she invited over were going and after i sort of totally pushed her to go.
But they just got home, and they all had lots of fun, and now they're all in their sleeping bags talking about everything, and they're close enough that i can hear, which is awesome because i'm nosy.
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