Friday: snowballing the driveway

We woke up to an unexpected snow day!  I'm not completely sure on the reason, but I think it was ice.  It was rather warm when we got outside around 8:30am, so things were probably bad right before then.

Anyway, we decided to go outside.  Joshua didn't really want to go and I hadn't been planning on it, but I made him get ready and he told me I should shovel.  However, the snow was so wet (as expected) that we ended up using the driveway for snowball snow.  It worked pretty well...while the driveway wasn't clean when we ended, it had melted by the late afternoon.

Wednesday: frog room

A friend is helping to redo the frog room.  I've disliked those frogs for a long time, so I'm very excited to have them gone.  It took her yesterday and both of us today to get the wall paper off.  (To be fair, they aren't super long days.  Kids' schedules need to be worked around.)  The wall paper didn't come off super easily, but it also wasn't too bad once we got into the rhythm.  Take off the top layer, soak the glue layer, and then take that off.

We found some writing behind the wall paper.  It says "Frog room ribbit ribbit" with a frog and a gun that says bang.  I call this room many things, including frog room, guest room, and school room.  I might keep calling it frog room because the family will still know what I mean.

The boys enjoyed coloring on the walls, as should always happen before painting or wall papering.

Monday: O:Ct - office

I'm calling the office done.  It isn't really...it still needs curtains and Ben has a few boxes to look through yet.  I know it isn't clean per se, but we use it a lot and Ben and I never manage to get our desks clean at the same time.  We did get a lot organized and decluttered, even if it doesn't really look like it.

I think I'll do the pantry next because it should be short.  The office took forever.

Saturday: normal

 Today was a normal Saturday.  We did Legos, the boys were crazy, and I didn't want to deal with dinner.

Yesterday I took a bunch of pictures of a quilt.  Horizon was quite sure that he belonged on it since he's black.  I only got one or two pictures without him.

Friday: the day

It was kind of a busy day today...but it didn't feel as though I got much work done.  I went to the Mom's group at church which was very nice.  I tried to give blood, but I didn't prepare properly so my iron was way too low.  So I went to Lowe's instead and got some paint and styrofoam.  The styrofoam is for the office window: we keep the blinds closed almost all the time and hopefully this will help keep it a bit warmer.  (It hasn't been put up yet, but I had to clean in front of the window first.  O:CtH has been having slow progress in part because there keep being things that go into the office that need to be dealt with.)

The other funny? thing is I realized that there were only two days in January where both boys were in school.  Oh, it's been nice to have them back in school even though the days have been full of errands and such.

Wednesday: snow

Today wasn't a snow day!  It did snow most of the day though.  The roads started out ok and by the end of the day they weren't quite as good.  (I did a lot of driving today.  The worst part was actually dealing with car windows.)

I brought my quilting machine in for a tune-up.  It's just a local, in-home place but it had really good reviews.  The quilter has never had a tune-up, so it was due for one.  I had never thought to look for local places, so we'll see how it goes.

Then I went grocery shopping.  Most things that I was looking for were back in stock, with the exception of orange cinnamon rolls.  

I brought the cats to the vet, only to find out that I had the wrong month on my calendar.  They had time though, so got us in.  Horizon gained a half pound and needs more exercise, but otherwise they're doing well.

Tuesday: school

Everyone was back at school (or work) today!  Huzzah!

Now that things are almost normal, I'm hoping not to have a snow day tomorrow.  Joshua is quite sure there will be a snow day tomorrow.  There isn't a ton of snow predicted, but it's supposed to freeze (after today's rain) around 2am.  So roads might be terrible.

I really have a lot of things I need to do tomorrow.  It wouldn't be a terrible day for a snow day, but I have errands and appointments and normal stuff.  The last two weeks have felt like just getting the minimum amount done...which is fine and all, but more needs to get done.