Slices of Life

*Originally posted February 21, 2014 when the boys were 6, 8, & 9  I really still am completely unmotivated to do any schoolwork with the boys.  The winter dole drums are here to stay and it doesn't help that it's a rainy, messy, gray day out. Spring can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned and at this point we're all just hanging in there hoping we can make it another month or two until we can get out of this funk we're in.  Everyone is testy, antsy, and a bit uncooperative-- or so I thought.  In desperation for something to do today and some way to show that we're actually learning, I turned to the pile of worksheets I had printed off the computer and decided to use those today. I don't love worksheets and try not to use them much with the boys but I'll freely admit we rely on them a lot during the winter.  Why do we use them if I don't really like them? My boys do tend to enjoy worksheets; they don't love them either bu...

Evan and I should've been on our way home from North Carolina today. I wrote this post earlier than usual since I was going to be gone all weekend and leaving my laptop at home. I planned to have a post or two with trip highlights up soon.  But when I was leaving home on Friday I had no idea a huge blizzard was on its way. Our flight home was canceled and it looks like the earliest we can make it home now is Friday. We hope! Though we are supposed to get some snow Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so who knows! Thankfully my parents don't mind the extra unexpected company.     I'm updating this post from my phone at 3pm on Monday and we still have no flight booked home yet as the app keeps crashing with 2 days worth of passengers trying to rebook. It's still snowing at my house and we have a minimum of 2 feet of snow on the ground. Hearing stories of the storm from a far has been wild. My husband could not see the lake out our windows for much of the day! I have no post...