After a week of family celebration and friend get-togethers, and with colds settling in for everyone, AND since there was a major flood in the kids bathroom upstairs that we had to clean up late into the night, our Fun Friday was
very low-key.
Chocolate chip muffins for breakfast (recipe out of my new Cooks Illustrated Baking Book that Steve gave me for Christmas)
While Henry napped, the big kids got to go outside to play for the first time all week. They had to take advantage of the heat wave that we were having (20F!! windchill was still hovering around 0F though...and after 30 min outside, Willem's cheeks were already starting to show frostbite. It is CRAZY cold around here).
Carsten also got to go over to Mrs. Lynne's all by himself to celebrate his birthday with her which he was pretty stoked about. He had saved the last pieces of his birthday cake for her, and she gave him a new game, Cars Monopoly. Super fun! We love our neighbors...
It is going to go back into the deep freeze over the weekend (school has already been cancelled on Monday because of the cold), so we went out and ran errands - "new" ice skates for Grace and Willem in prep for skating in January at school, new tennis shoes for Grace, and groceries. Steve was working late so we picked up chicken nuggets and mozzarella sticks and had a total TV supper. We threw in apples and carrots to try to healthify things...=)
I was very proud of the kids for not whining about our low-key day, and for getting ready for bed by themselves without complaining...it's the little things, right?
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