Two slippers, swimtrunks and a hat.

What do those items have in common? They all mysteriously migrated out of the thrift store donation bag, and managed to stay here. Interesting.

It's been an absolutely beautiful day here today. Somewhere around thirty degrees, sunny and warm! The kids and I had a great snowshoe trek into the woods, they took good naps, then we made that trip to drop off those thrift store clothes and ran by the flooring store to pick up a remnant piece of vinyl for my future counter top. Fancy, I know. But in this house, for $10 and functional, you can't go wrong! And, the vinyl is even kinda cute. Plan stands to be put into motion this weekend.

Snowshoeing was a good workout and fun today, as the snow is hard packed now and it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to pull them. And, I rigged up this ingenious harness for pulling: put on the baby front/back pack the back way and loop the sled rope through it. Voila, a nicely padded, well strapped-on, comfortable harness that pulls equally on all sides! Sometimes, I surprise myself with these grand ideas.

Hope you were able to get out and enjoy the day today!

Welcome to Tuesday

We just rediscovered play-dough. (Thanks, Mom!) That is a good thing. He's going on about an hour...this creates much peace amongst the rest of us.

I just put the younger down for a nap...with a bottle in one hand (trying to wean that) and an empty milk jug in the other. I decided taking it away wasn't worth the fit she'd throw.

So now, we're finally settling in for the day. The morning was a little...well, I'll call it rough.

Now, to do the laundry, round up some lunch and get everything ready to take to the accountant tomorrow. (read: sort through receipts and invoices and enter 'em in the book...Should be fun!) Nothing like last minute, right?

And to stay warm, cuz baby, it's cold (again!) outside.

4:30 and he's still going strong with the play-dough. Ate lunch on the job, and took a short break to go outside with dad. I am lovin' this stuff!