Playroom Update

We updated the playroom last month! I've been thinking about doing this for a while because the girls never really play in it. I decided to go through it and clean some stuff out and also paint the walls. It was a cream color, but we painted it the grey knitting needles color that our kitchen and entryway are. I think it looks really nice, especially with the white trim that Ross painted last year. We did move out the baby doll items we had in the playroom because they are just not played with. My girls have never really been into baby dolls, so I didn't mind moving them. We left the kitchen and laundry playset and moved a desk from Molly's room into the playroom so it can be like a school area. I really like how it turned out and the best part - I didn't have to buy any new decorations! Everything that is on the wall was either there before or I took from somewhere else in the house. Hopefully this room will be used a little more now! 

Snow Days!

We got snow last week and had three snow days! It snowed overnight Wednesday to Thursday and then all day Thursday. Thursday was a pretty cold day and we did play outside a bit. I shoveled the driveway, which totally wore me out! That is hard work! 

It was fun watching he girls play around, especially Lucy. She absolutely loved playing in the snow! Molly has always loved to eat the snow and apparently Lucy does, too. You can watch them eat snow here! 

Snow Ice Cream!

We made snow ice cream with this latest snow we had! We set out two bowls Wednesday night before it started snowing and had some yummy ice cream the next day. I looked up a few different recipes for snow ice cream and decided to use this one:

4 cups snow

1 cup milk

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

You mix it all together and it is just so yummy! It tastes like real homemade ice cream, but it doesn't last long! It starts to melt very quickly, so you need to eat it up quickly! 

Fun Breakfast Friday

Last fall I started "Fun Breakfast Friday" where we have something fun to eat in the morning for breakfast. It's either cinnamon rolls, donuts, muffins, smoothies, whatever is fun and something we don't have everyday for breakfast. Last week we had breakfast for dinner on Wednesday and Ross made pancakes. He made some fun pancakes for the girls to have for Fun Breakfast Friday, so we had those with smoothies last week. Lucy had a mickey mouse ears pancake and Molly had a donut pancake! They were a hit! 

Virtual Learning

Last week the girls were at home for virtual learning due to covid. Springfield schools closed down on Wednesday, January 26 and reopened on Monday, January 31. THey had to shut down due to the high number of cases and the fact that so many teachers and sub were sick that they couldn't fill the vacant spots. We had Wednesday-Friday and then Monday, 1/24 off as "free" days off. But starting Tuesday, January 25, we did virtual learning. I was dreading it, but it really wasn't bad at all. Both teachers sent very easy to follow instructions as to what to do each day and both girls stayed busy on a call for the majority of the day. Molly was on a call every day at 8:30, 10:30, 12:30, and 2:30, and Lucy was on at 9am and 1pm each day. Molly's calls didn't last very long since they had several and Lucy's calls were a little longer since there were so few. They even had "live" specials classes, so on the days the girls would have PE at school, their PE teacher was on the zoom call giving them things to do. I was super impressed with everyone involved in this virtual process! They made a not-so-ideal situation good and I'm very thankful for that. I am also very thankful that we are back to in-person school this week, however, I feel that will be short-lived! There is a big winter storm predicted to hit this Wednesday and I have little hope of going to school after today!