It is 7:30 and my boys (all three of them) are still sleeping. I don’t expect it to last much longer, but I’m hoping the extra time spent in snooze land will help our day run more on the smooth side than it has been lately.

But as I sit here waiting for Fuller and Tebow to make their appearances, I realize the sleep, while good, isn’t the only thing that will help our day. Mainly it is the need of an attitude adjustment. An attitude adjustment done by me.

As a homeschool mom, I love to talk the talk of how flexible our lives are. When the school bus goes by in the morning, I puff my chest out in pride because my children might still sleeping and getting the rest they need, not what the alarm clock doles out.

However I realize that recently our days have been rough because though I think we are flexible my actions don’t seem to show it. I try to get us started in the morning at a certain time and when a rough patch appears (sometimes in the form of Tebow wanting more food or attention, other times in the form of Legos stealing attention), I don’t really roll with it, but pitch a mommy hissy fit.

So, it is 7:42, my family is still asleep and I’m looking at our day, knowing that right now, I need to just enjoy the coffee and when we get our schooling done will be dictated by just how flexible I am.

I had a kind of Mother’s Weekend, since the first gift I received was the gift of alone time, something I don’t get a ton of these days. While I was alone, the boys and their dad were out making my gifts, a flower pot project at Home Depot.

Later that afternoon I left to get a little prettier (painted toes always make me feel pretty), which also counted as more alone time.

While actual Mother’s Day was marred by a serious headache Damon was dealing with, we did manage to go to Red Robin for lunch and have ice cream for dinner at home. Yes, that is right, I decided we would have ice cream for dinner. It was awesome. With waffle bowls, whipped cream, Magic Shell, and maraschino cherries, how could it not be awesome? (I actually have a thing for Mother’s Day ice cream. Sometimes we go out, this time we stayed in.)

Did you have a good Mother’s Day? I did.

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This photo was shot earlier this week, at the tail end of our family celebrations of the holidays. It is so full of happiness!

Since Christmas has passed and a New Year has started, it’s time to think about our family, our goals, and hope of accomplishing anything. I’m not promising anything, but I’m hoping to revive this family blog and keep it more up to date. I also hope I can keep a resolution I made last year- more video of the kiddos.

Happy New Year, hope to see you around the blog.

Saturday morning the kids and I were in the car, listening to the radio. The weather report came on and Paul said the “S” word- snow.

Fuller immediately perked up and asked about the snow mentioned in said forecast. I repeated the report, but gave the idea of snow that evening a rather dubious tone. This was to protect my child from the fallibility of all weathermen. Weathermen like to throw around fancy words like barometer, cold fronts, and Snow at this time of year, just to raise the hopes of little six year old boys who desperately think they should build snowmen.

Well, Sunday morning Fuller ran to the window only to be disappointed. The evening rain did not turn into snow as Paul had predicted.

We went to church and as we were leaving to go home and enjoy lunch, Fuller was delighted to see the white stuff swirling in the air. And I was surprised to see the white stuff keep swirling pretty much all day. We left at 4ish to go to a birthday party and it was still snowing.

By the time we got home (after driving really slowly in order to keep our heads and car in tact), there was a bit of accumulation. In fact, in our neighborhood, after a few blocks there were no more tire tracks on the street, just white covering the road. (Here is where I mention that we live in a very hilly neighborhood. If there was a chance of the roads freezing, residents have been known to park their cars at the entrances of the subdivision so they can go to work the next day. Or so I have been told.)
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I know it is December. I know the winter season is technically a few days away. I know it is supposed to be getting colder.

But seriously, this cold snap really blindsided me. The temperature combined with the wind has made it a bit on the miserable side.

Yesterday I made the decision to take us out into the cold to see Damon do some work. We spent about an hour and half out in the wind and decided we needed to go. Since we were taking Damon home after work, I took the boys to a near by toy store. I needed some ideas for Christmas gifts and I figured the boys would enjoy playing a bit.

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The Christmas spirit entered our home a few days before Thanksgiving. We (as in Damon and I) had decided that for our first Christmas in our new home we would purchase a potted Christmas tree that we would be able to plant after the season. We did it at our previous house and I honestly felt a little sad leaving that reminder of our first Christmas.

Because of our schedules we decided to tree hunt before Thanksgiving, which lead us to Lowe’s and Home Depot. While both had potted trees suited to the task of showing off our Christmas cheer, Home Depot had some tiny Italian Stone Pines at decent prices. We quickly used my phone to check wikipedia and see what the trees would look like full grown and decided to buy three.

We held off decorating until after Thanksgiving. I had the goal of creating a tree that was Tebow friendly and decorating it with items that we didn’t care if Tebow got a hold of and destroyed. (This is where I remind you what a destructive bugger Tebow is. And if you don’t believe me, invite us over. Tebow will prove you wrong.)

Here is the final look:

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