Friday: not a snow day

The morning started out with this lovely text.  Our kids were in school, but I understand wanting to take the week off.  Only one day of school is a bit weird.

A cardinal came to the birdfeeder today!  I usually get sparrows and juncos, so I was very excited for the cardinal.

I spent some time cleaning the storage room, as is my goal on Fridays.  Today's goal was to get some easy stuff out of the basement.  I also put a few things back in the right place: gift bags had fallen out of their spot and tissue paper was out of its bin.  It wasn't super long, but it was still something.  Some of the stuff needs to be cleaned and will be put back in, while some of the stuff will need to temporarily go back in because that's where donations are kept.  By taking some of the stuff out I was able to put some suitcases under the shelves and free up more floor space.  Hurray!  I also brought all of last week's books to the bookstore, so they're out of the house!  I think next week I'm going to do the same thing; there are still a few obvious things that could be removed.

Ben and Isaac went to play Magic tonight, so Joshua and I had our normal night too.  It's nothing special, but he really seems to enjoy them.  We played two games, had some screen time, and he got hot chocolate with a candy cane.