February 22, 2008

The kids and I were home for another snow day today. That makes three for my district. Ok, that's enough. My district has now used up all our extra days on our calendar. Michaela's district does not have extra days so they have to make up all four that they have had so far.

Ok, so I'm someone who usually likes winter, but seriously, it's the end of February and I'm ready for it to be over. The kids are driving me nuts because it's too cold for me to let them go outside. I'm tired of wearing coats. And, I'm really tired of cold wind. Yes, the wind has bothered me more than anything this winter. I guess I've realized there is a type of weather I don't like. I don't like wind, especially cold wind.

Anyway, I managed to get laundry started today. I also cleaned and mopped the kitchen. And, I took some stain remover to the kitchen chairs. We have very light beige fabric on our kitchen chairs. Yes, I know, not ideal when you have kids. Anyway, they all needed some stain removal and I really worked hard on that today. They don't look like new, but they do look a whole lot better. Especially considering Caleb had chocolate doughnut ground into his chair.

Tonight, the kids and I played on the Wii. We had two games from Gamefly and they have been playing one, but I wanted to try out the other one, too. They've been playing EA Playground a lot. They seem to really like it, so I tried that one first. It's a cute game and great for kids. It has things like shooting baskets, dodge ball, slot cars (which is a lot of fun), this soccar/volley ball game, etc. You collect marbles and stickers to unlock other games. I think this is one we are putting on our "to buy" list.

We also had a game called Game Party. I played around with it for about 30 minutes. It's going back and we will not be buying it. It's very difficult to manuver things in that game. It has you aim like the games in carnival games does, but then when you throw a dart or toss a ball it doesn't go where you aimed. I could not figure out how to get my character to move right for air hockey either. It was very frustrating. We will not be buying that game.

I went downstairs for a while to go through my latest batch of pictures. There are quite a few that I need to give to other people. I've not given the ones I took at The Boar's Head festival to my SIL and BIL yet. I also put some frm Christmas aside for them. And, I have a couple of a friend from church where she's sitting with the man that recently passed away that I know she wants. I also managed to get one scrapbook page done today.