Mid-winter break

We have a wonderful four-day weekend! I think the last part of January and, so far, all of February we have had a four-day weekend.

Its great. I love having the kids home and its nice not having to deal with a busy routine in the mornings.

Unfortunately our four-day weekend is filled with sickness. Brennan, Colson, and I all have a horrendous head cold, and Victoria now has a fever. I am so looking

forward to a lazy day tomorrow.

Colson is back on oral steriods for his excezma. Poor kid! Its totally covering his body this time, and to top it off his asthma has kicked in too.

I think our sweet baby is teething, at least thats what I hope is what's prompting her fever. Poor little thing she just wants to be held and rocked!

I rented a movie from "on demand" and am saving it for later tonight. Jacquie and I are planning on finishing up our "Anne of Green Gables" series

tomorrow morning. I so enjoy watching a movie with her.

We also have a huge presidents project that we will need to tackle this weekend for her. UGH! I hate classroom projects that have to come home. So many

times it the parents doing them and when they are displayed at school you can tell too! What a shame. Honestly, they should be done in the classroom, they should use their computer and library time doing research. Sometimes I wonder just what all they do in 8 hours of education. My poor sweet daughter has had 2+ hours of homework every single night and I bet she has some for the weekend

too! When did the bar get raised so high that elementary kids have several hours of homework nightly? Kids sure aren't able to be kids anymore.

I was going to have a friend, Julie and her kids over tomorrow for lunch and play but with all this sickness running rampant through our home I don't think it

would be wise to pass it on to her gang. Nope! not gonna do it! So we are taking a rain-check on the day of planned fun. Maybe next week.

Its pretty quiet here for "Valentines Day!" Bryan is watching a movie on his laptop; Scottie is snoozing on the sofa; Brennan, Jacquie and Colson are watching

tv in the basement; Den and Blake are reffing youth basketball for the night and Victoria is just playing quietly here beside me! well, she was just a minute ago, guess its time to hit the "la-z-boy" again.

Happy Valentines Day!