Sleeping in his Cardboard House

Hopefully not indicative of his future living arrangements. He got to have a little male bonding time with a friend's husband while we ladies caught a late movie. Apparently hours of xBox and Wii while tucker you out far too much to climb the stairs to your own comfy bed.

32.9

That's how many inches of snow have fallen here in the last 24 hours.

It's 4am, I just got home from work, and my roads have clearly not been plowed all day. The snow is waist deep in places. Should be fun to shovel out in the morning.

Post Christmas

I know I haven't posted anything here in a very long time, but trust me when I say, we've been busy. We had quite the blizzard yesterday that made the roads mile-long ice rinks, but before it really got going, HUGE snowflake clumps were falling from the sky and standing outside the front door felt very much like I might imagine it would be like to live in a freshly shaken snow globe. Awesome.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday, from our snow globe to yours...

When Your Tree Has a Five Year Old Boy...

...two silver balls might have to share one branch,
but R2D2 will have a place of honor front and center.

The tree is up! Leaning slightly to the right and bit uneven in the distribution of ornaments, but up! Let the holidays and merriment begin.

Rockin' Out, One Colorful Brick at a Time

I stood in line at Old Navy at 2:40am on Black Friday. I had just finished work and they were giving out Lego Rock Band so I figured why not? Ended up with two free games and a newly honed hand/eye coordination that can not be beat. Lucas is spectacularly good at it, despite looking half asleep in his (dirty) recliner. Trust me...he's totally killin' that beat.

Thankful for This One

Like, really really THANKFUL.

Weekend Update

So, Lucas and I are finally done being sick. Like completely done. And that's good. But we made my poor mother sick, so that's miserable.
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I've been volunteering in Luke's classroom two days a week. Partly because I really want to be involved in his education, and partly because I'm nosey and I want to keep an eye on what's happening in the classroom. Like is he behaving for his teacher? Does he have good buddies? Are his social skills evolving as they should be? All of that is good, I've found, though he does climb off the bus every afternoon with a list of indiscretions from his classmates. This one kid looked at him funny! And this other kid ran away when he asked him to play! Oh the horror!! Kindergarten hasn't toughened him up at all, he's still a pretty sensitive soul.
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My home smells like homemade banana pecan bread, cinnamon rolls and bacon right now, and yet all he wants to eat for breakfast is yogurt. I don't get it.