Magic Moments

The field trip this week for our coop was an open gym time just for our group at the Gymnastics place in the area. This was much needed as my boys are honestly and truly big huge balls of pent up energy. They didn't stop moving for the entire hour and worked up quite an appetite. This place has an open gym every Friday and so I think we'll definitely go back. I need one of these pits in my house! By the end of our time Sage gained the courage to make this jump as well.

Yesterday we left the house and went to Como Zoo. And for the record we left the house last week too and went to the Omni Theater at the Science Museum. So, even though the boys have cabin fever and are bouncing off the walls, they have done a few things. Anyway, I love Como in the in the winter time. I don't know why we don't go every week. It's good for my soul. It's like a taste of Summer. We toured the gardens and then Mikelene and I sat on a bench and chatted while Jim was good enough to take the boys outside to see all the animals at the zoo. Yesterday Como had to put down it's female lion, so I was glad the boys got to see her one last time. Our 4 sweet boys Love this place! The boys are in there somewhere...most likely disturbing all the avid and serious gardeners. ;)

I'm 10 weeks and 2 days pregnant and it feels like I've already been pregnant forever since I've been sick for an entire 4.5 weeks. But today, God gave me enough energy to get off the couch. It's fading fast so I thought I'd log what we did so others believe me. ;) School has been difficult lately. We've managed to keep up with math, history, reading, and spelling. Science has fallen behind which is really ok anyway. We're studying insects and insects are a boring thing to study when it's winter in Minnesota. We'll catch up with all that come Spring. Anyway, of course today the curriculum called for a sewing project for Sage and a cooking project for Aiden. Both were thankfully really easy so I somehow managed to get them accomplished. Now I'm going to take a nap in hopes of making it to the grocery store today. We read Katy No Pocket (probably my most favorite story) today and the curriculum suggested I make Sage his own apron of pockets fo...

Tom has been home for the last 5 days and while normally we would have planned something exciting, I'm in no condition to leave the house. ;) However, having him home has been so, so wonderful as he's been able to do all the things I can't and just overall keep the peace around here. He goes back to work tomorrow and he will be gone a lot over the next two weeks and no one is more sad than I am. While Tom was home he was able to take Aiden on his field trip to go snow shoeing. First they attended a class about tracking animals and then they were able to go out and put what they learned into practice. If we had more snow I'm sure the kids would have gotten more of a feel for snow shoeing, but it was probably ok for their little legs that there wasn't so much snow. Snow shoeing is HARD work. Aiden had a blast and his own snow shoes are in his future. I think the field trip ended with lots of hot cocoa and cookies. It's been C-O-L-D up here!

Admittedly, life with two kids ages 6 and 3 is (relatively speaking) easy. For the most part we have (finally) left behind being up in the night with babies. Everyone is able to walk to the car. Everyone can feed themselves, get themselves dressed, and speak for themselves. Missing a nap is no longer the end of the world and we can be gone for longer stretches of time and go really fun places. Even Sage can sit through 2 hour productions and can be trusted to sit through church. Life is chaotic, especially with schooling the boys at home and of course they still require a heavy amount of intentional parenting (don't we all?), but Tom and I were beginning to reclaim our lives. We've hired babysitters so we could have date night, we joined a gym and can trust the boys will be ok in the gym childcare, and we've been enjoying not having babies sleeping in our room. I had even considered taking on more hours at work and going back to school.  So, all this to say, life is about t...

We are still here even though my blog has been silent. I have posts looming in my head all to be logged at a time when I feel up to it. January has come and gone (and not a moment too soon) but before it left it dropped off a heaping dose of morning (read: all day/all night) sickness and it forgot to take it with when it left. We're 9 days into February and I'm counting down the days in this awful month more fervently than I counted down in January.  The one thing that brings a minimal amount of comfort is that this is the LAST time I will be enduring morning sickness. FOR REAL. I'm sure I'm not fun to live with right now and Tom has stepped in to do what he can. I'm sure it's hard for him because I beg him every morning to please, please stay home and not go to work. My parents were our saviors and came and stayed the weekend with me. My mom did ridiculous amounts of laundry for us, cleaned our house, took us all to get our hair cut, and stocked my freezer with...