Day 2056 | Reading Time
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I used to dream about a day when we could all sit down and silently read together. It’s happening. It’s really happening.
Day 2055 | Lake Life
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Another beautiful day on the frozen lake. Our first [unsuccessful] ice fishing adventure and two ice skating outings. Highlights of the ice skating include: Chase getting more comfortable on the ice, my mom getting out on the ice, Chris and Robbe honing their hockey skills, and I started skating backwards. It’s not a big deal. You’re right. It’s a huge deal.
Day 2054 | Winter Walk
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Chase and I enjoyed a lovely winter walk during virtual school today. We usually get one or two in during our solo days together (on Thursdays and Fridays). He said these walks are one of his “favorite things” today. Cue: heart melting.
Day 2053 | Drawing
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Robbe has been following along with a drawing YouTube channel this week. He’s always loved art but I don’t think he knows how to develop the skills to keep him interested—lord knows I can’t help him there. Crafting? Yes! Drawing? No, sir.
This little lady was one of his projects today. Isn’t she so cute? I guess it’s an LOL doll if you know what that is (we didn’t…ha!). I’ll keep you posted if he ends up producing any other gems.
Day 2052 | Darts
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Did you hear we got a dart board for Christmas? I’m the first to admit I’m surprised at how much it’s been used in the last couple of weeks. It’s hard to say whether Chris or Robbe has been working harder to hone their skills.
Day 2051 | Lazy Days
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For real, is there anything better than a lazy day after the chaos of the holidays? This is me and the big one reading books about cats (I’m sure you’ve heard of the Warriors series) while snuggling under a cat blanket. That’s normal, right?
Day 2050 | Legos
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Asking for a friend…how many Legos are too many Legos?
Day 2049 | Surprise!
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Robbe bought a stuffed animal surprise toy with his Christmas money and uncovered these beautiful fake nails and rings as part of the “surprises”. Can you believe our luck?
Day 2048 | Holiday Cards
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One of my favorite parts of this season is the holiday cards. There’s nothing like snail mail and photos of my favorite people to brighten the days and connect us all during this crazy time. I appreciate every one of these smiling faces.
Day 2047 | Hockey Star In Training
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The little one worked so hard on his ice skating skills this afternoon. It’s amazing how much progress is possible in just a day. Hard work + determination. There’s a life-lesson, there.
Day 2046 | Ice Skating
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It turns out I really like lake ice skating. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Day 2045 | A Family Christmas
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It’s been a tradition the last few years to open gifts as our four-person family outside of a larger gathering. As much as I love the hustle and bustle of big family Christmases, I really enjoy the low-key time with just our little family to exchange gifts and do our own thing.
Tonight the boys picked our dinner (mini pizzas). We watched a Christmas food network challenge, sang some Christmas songs with piano accompaniment, talked about the importance of giving back and which organizations we’d be donating to this year. And then…the present opening! The boys were patient and attentive and, most of all, appreciative. We all got too many gifts but this year I’m not even feeling that guilty about it. I guess that’s one perk of Covid. Ha!
Day 2044 | Letter to Santa
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I thought that since we weren’t going to see Santa in person this year that it wasn’t necessary to draft a letter stating our requests. Robbe had another opinion on the matter when he panicked about not having written one yet.
Don’t worry, it got dropped off in a special delivery box earlier today. We’ll all sleep a bit better tonight.
Day 2043 | Winter Walk
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The colder it gets in Wisconsin, the harder it is to motivate yourself to get outside (especially without snow). However, we went for a walk and ended up discovering these sweet rocks. That’s almost as good as sledding and snowman-building, I guess.
Day 2042 | Waiting
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Is there anything harder than waiting for Christmas to arrive? I can’t be the only one who thinks this year has been unbelievably long and incredibly short at the same time. I mean, how is it Christmas already?!?
Day 2041 | More Graphing
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We continue to work through some fun graphs after our book donation project. Today’s goal? See how many inches our books measured and then compare that number to our family members’ heights. Spoiler: the boys + me = not as tall as the books. The boys + Chris = just a bit taller. They win!
Day 2040 | Built-Ins
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Look how adult we are! We have built-in bookshelves and cabinets! We’ve been deliberating this project for some time and it’s finally a reality. We couldn’t be happier with the final product (below is the before, above is the after). We actually have a space for our [one million] board games. And the tv is mounted (thanks, Chris). Things are getting pretty crazy over here.
Day 2039 | Goodbye, Blossom
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We said a sad farewell to Blossom today. You remember Blossom, right? He was a good little friend and we’ll miss him.
Day 2038 | Holiday Cards
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Our 4-H club made holiday cards for a local nursing home again this year. We just had to make them at home instead of as a group—the cards pictured above are ours and the ones dropped off by other members. I’m glad we could still spread some holiday cheer, but it sure felt different. Here’s hoping we’re back in person for card-crafting next year.
Day 2037 | Shop Small
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Today was a beautiful December day in Wisconsin. Chase and I spent part of it picking up our book orders from a couple of our favorite local businesses. Today was the last day of our book drive and we were so overwhelmed by people’s generosity that we decided we needed to spread the a little more love to local businesses.
Jump over to the book donation project blog if you want to catch up on what we’ve been doing. Now that the donation window has closed, we’ll be buying more books with the donation money, organizing the donation information, and graphing our results. So much fun left to be had.
