When I decided to start a blog last January about this time, I never even had the faintest hope that I would post daily. Nor did I think I'd even manage every few days; I was hoping for weekly posts at best. Well, seems it was more like monthly posts as I only managed 12 posts all of last year. I am not resolving to do an extreme turn around and post every few days this year but I will try my best to do more than the measly 12 of last year. My parents are FINALLY hooked up to the internet (woo hoo!), with an iPad no less (jealous ;)) so I have good reason this year to post updates about what the grandkids have been up to lately. So here goes, let's try this again.....
We have had a very mild winter here so far and snow has been almost non-existent. The kids are anxious to get outside the minute they see snow in the morning, for fear it will disappear by afternoon. The lastest snow we received at the very end of last year is still hanging around, and though it doesn't even completely cover the long grass and leftover leaves on our lawn, it has been sufficient to go sledding in our backyard. We spent nearly two hours outside yesterday and about an hour today, and my shins are sore from walking back up the hill umpteen times. But it has been so great to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine and get a bit of exercise together.
We had an enjoyable holiday season, celebrating Christmas at home and New Year's down in the Twin Cities, where we also celebrated Rob's 40th birthday. The tree came down today and now I have to tuck things back in boxes, decide how much of my window display can stay up as a "winter" scene for a few more weeks, and get back into the regular routines. Jonathan is back at preschool this week but Sarah's session of her class is done and we do not sign up for the next one for a couple weeks. This leaves us Mondays and Fridays at home and hopefully we can get to the community center to go skating and swimming a few times this month.
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| Cutting a Christmas tree with Grandma and Grandpa Stoby and Grandpa Maroney, December 4th |
That's where we stand for now. Here's to a productive 2012 and hopefully a slightly more used blog!
Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteHi Lorrene!
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by my blog and for your awesome book recommendations! I wrote all of them down on my list of books to read this year - I really appreciate it! It seems like you covered a broad range of topics and some were very powerful. I had the Hunger Games written down already, but had never heard of the others that you mentioned. If you read any other awesome ones, I'd love to hear more!
Laura