As a naturally clean person who doesn't like messes, it takes all my strength to see the good in this chaos. BUT, I am trying. After work each day and before the kids come home, I try and wipe the counters and clean the floors and generally pick up. This particular day, I had done that and extra deep cleaning. B had other plans (as did Ads, see mess near sink that was done by the middle child making smoothies and ribs as an after school snack). Not only did I do some extra cleaning, B did some extra mess making (spilled half a bag of flower on the floor, opened sprinkles that left the counter covered in small balls of sugar , put the powdered sugar into the mix rather than the granulated sugar etc). It took a lot of patience (and a lot of cleaning), but I did my best to embrace his excitement to bake muffins. And in the end, the muffins were good, he was happy and the kitchen was once again clean.
Friday, January 24, 2025
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Monday, January 20, 2025
Some good things during some dark times
We've had some tough times in the past few weeks, tragedy and loss to name a few, but in the midst of hard times is always some light. Here are a few highlights. Our incredible exchange student moved in with us and we put her to the test on the first night with one of the most hilarious games we know.
We watched the Taylor Swift movie together and braided hair.
Got pedicures.
We went to the Maurice Sendak exhibit at the art museum (Ads was up skiing with some friends for the weekend).
Went to an old time favorite restaurant for dinner.
Brian and I took these 5 kids to watch my nephew and his girlfriend swim at the Air Force Academy (my parents and brother also were there). After the meet Friday night we all went out to dinner before watching them Saturday as well.
They played Monopoly.
B spent the night with my parents and built NYC.
And today when things in our country feel especially scary and out of our control, I took the kids to Costco and we spent the afternoon making bags to hand out to people experiencing homelessness on the streets.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
XMas-New Years
We spent the week between Christmas through New Years (plus a few days) in the mountains. We did some sledding, swimming and lots of skiing with big powder days.
The first powder day was 8 new inches, and was really fun for the most part, until it wasn't. B wanted to go on a black, which was fun, but didn't end well with him needing to be dug out by his brother and Bri crashing (waiting on MRI results for a knee injury).
Of course there was a lot of cooking (in our TINY kitchen with many people there). Ads taught B lots of knife skills.
Annual NYE fondue (LT was in Denver with his girlfriend at a party).
On New Years day, B, Ads and I headed to Vail so Ads could meet a friend and so could B. The only picture I got was of these two in the candy store post skiing.
The next day Copper got 10 inches. Everyone was tired (and Bri was hurt), but I wanted to go. I woke the kids up and everyone said they were too tired. As I was about to leave, I nudged LT a bit more and he agreed. It was one of the best days I've skied (albeit a bit cold and windy).
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