And we lost her ...

I'm not going to try to catch up on my lack of posting ... too much time hanging out with family and not enough time sitting in front of the computer ... that's a good thing.

Anyway, I happen to be sitting here in front of the fire reading a couple of articles about the Vikings qualifying for the playoffs, and I just realized that we won't actually talk to Cyndie for the next several days. She received a package in the mail from her dad today ... a new camera. The battery just finished charging about 5 minutes ago. And now all she wants to do is play with the camera. I think she will actually interact with us, but only to get us to pose for pictures, not because she's actually interested in us!

Needless to say, she's very excited!

The snow is here

So it snowed for probably around 9 hours in the end. I think the net result is about 12 inches of snow. It was enough snow that had there been another inch, I wouldn't have been able to "get" all the snow with one pass of the snow blower. As it was, it took me about twice as long to do the blowing and shoveling as usual, and that was with Cyndie's help for about a half hour.

Timmy is feeling quite a bit better today, but is pretty low on energy. Probably because he didn't eat anything yesterday. He went outside for about 5 minutes in the snow, but all he wanted to do was lay in it, so in the end he went back inside and watched some TV. Strangely, Emma was similar. She went out for 20 or so minutes, but when she found out the snow wasn't really good for snowmen, she decided to head inside. So Cyndie and I sledded for a little bit by ourselves!

And then there were none ...

Days until Christmas Break:

Additionally, Emma had school cancelled today since we've gotten about a foot of snow since midnight ... and it's still coming down. My office (on site) is closed, so I'll probably only work a couple of hours too.

Timmy seems to be feeling quite a bit better last night. He last threw up just before bed yesterday (sorry Grandpa). My dad was over to watch him so that Cyndie and I could both attend Emma's cute Christmas concert.

Surprising wisdom

Every once in a while Timmy totally surprises me by doing or saying something that totally seems beyond his years. Just now, when we finished watching the Phantom Menace, he turned to me and said, "I think I should go upstairs and take a nap". Good for you Timmer!

So the rest of the day should be interesting. Tonight is Emma's Christmas concert/show at school. Hopefully she'll be feeling well and won't get whatever bug Tim has. She'd be crushed if she had to miss that. And more so, hopefully Tim will be healthy, and the rest of us stay healthy for the Christmas season. It would be sucky to have the time off and family around and be in bed!

Typing with one hand ...

So I'm sitting here typing one handed because Timmy is laying on me. He woke up around 5 am with a flu of some sort ... throwing up and diarrhea. Fun stuff. Fortunately, I realized that I have some sick time left, so I'm going to hang out with him this morning while Cyndie is at MOPS. Due to that physical limitation I'm not going to say much but ...

Christmas Break Countdown:

Kids singing video ...

Beware all who receive this via email, you'll need to go to the web site (wildwooddevries.blogspot.com) in order to view this vid:

Recent Pix

Okay, here's a few pictures from the last week ...

Here's the kids singing a couple of songs at church ... I'll follow this post up with a post which has a video of this ... Auntie Karen beware, it's a big file.


Monday, the kids make "Gingerbread" houses (with graham crackers)

Here's Emma and Tim, ready for his show (and after Emma had spiffied him up) ...

Tim, the wiseman ...

Emma sat with her friend Anya and was very good during the show ...

Here's Timmy with Teacher Sally ...