Something’s freezing over….

It’s been quite the week here in blissful Minnesota. We got dumped with upwards of 12 inches of lovely fluffy precipitation in the past 3 days. It wracked so much havoc that we even canceled school……brace yourself…..for 2 days in a row!

 

Unheard of. Unimaginable. Amazing.

 

While I am a teacher, and snow days should be about as much fun as they were when I was 11, our school district makes their teachers report on snow days.

 

Stupid. Mean. Dumb. Annoying.

 

I did, however, get tons done. Which was nice.

 

 

Here is the poor shed. Good thing I have a husband. You see, Noah’s baseball clinic was supposed to start yesterday (didn’t, thanks to the snow) and guess where his glove was?

You guessed it…..

 

 

 

A little snowdrift. It reminds me of icing.

 

 

 

 

Is there anything prettier than a snow covered evergreen?

 

 

But then…..just when I thought there was no hope for ever coming out of winter……

“Blue skies at night…..sailors delight”

 

 

There is hope for spring! Oh, who am I kidding, just a break from the snow for a couple of days. I believe there is snow forecasted for the weekend. Whoop-Dee-Do.

 

 

We found a condo in Florida! My fabulous husband found us the MOST AWESOME two bedroom condo for basically half off! I am not kidding. How he finds this stuff is beyond me. It’s honestly nicer than our house. It was just opened in November so I am hoping the pictures are accurate and we don’t pull up to the place and regret it. It’s always my biggest fear on every vacation. Here is the link if you want to check it out.

 

Twins tickets arrived on Saturday. Our vacation is completely planned including addresses typed into the GPS.  Seriously, we are ready for this trip.

 

Oh, and The Husband got a new job. Stay tuned for more info on that. That’s been kind of stressful, but it’s all good.

 

Enjoy the end of the week!

LB

Things

We booked Ft Myers! I am so excited. We had to do some things I said I would never do on vacation (switch planes, super early flight times) but we are going! Now the annoying task of finding somewhere to stay. I forgot how hard that process can be. I am not complaining though….it’s a good “problem” to have. I just can’t get over how many options for places there are! Condo or hotel? Suites or regular room? Kitchen or no kitchen? Beach front or walking distance? There are certainly places we rule out immediately due to price or lack of a decent pool, but it’s horribly hard to pick. Especially this year because we will actually spend some time there as opposed to the last years. Previous vacations have had lots of action, with no leisurely mornings, and lots of walking. This one will have a leisurely morning EVERY morning and lots of putzing.

 

We will get to a couple of MN Twins preseason games (they will be in their last week of training camp) and take a trip to Sanibel Island.  We will swim EVERY day. There is a water park we might check out and also an aquarium. Lots of yummy restaurants are waiting for me and I just can’t wait to lounge and bake in the sun. With the kids being able to swim, I actually feel like Mike and I can lounge. Although we don’t let them venture out of our sight…we don’t have to be in the pool with them, even in the deep end. So, lots of reading and relaxing for me! Maybe even a cocktail here and there! Neither kid has ever been interested in swimming in the ocean in the past, but we will have fun playing and walking on the beach. The end of March can not come soon enough.

 

Mike had his second bout of gout this past weekend. Where last time it was due to the low carb diet he was on, this one was due to dehydration. Remember how I told you he works out and sweats a lot? Yeah, not a good combo when you’re on a diuretic. Poor guy even had to miss a day of work….you know it’s bad when that happens. A sick husband made this last weekend pretty boring. We didn’t do anything. Nothing at all. Kind of sad.

 

Got some health things going on with my dad this week. If you are the praying type, I would appreciate some prayers. Thank you. We will be at Mayo on Thursday. I am sure all will go well. It’s just sucky.

 

Both boys have some cold symptoms. Connor worse than Noah. Both are battling through it, hoping we can shake it without too many problems. They are outside playing as I type this so obviously they are not too miserable.

 

I survived conferences last week. They went very well, probably the best they ever have. I was happy about that. Two 13 hour days really takes a toll though. I think I still have yet to catch up. I have not been sleeping very well, find myself waking around 3 and then I check the clock and pee until I get up for work at 5:30. Annoying. So, I am still trying to catch up on my sleep. Last night was better so hopefully that is a sign of things to come. Both my dad and sister have HORRIBLE sleeping issues and I am so scared I will inherit that. I know why they use sleep deprivation as war torture. It’s miserable.

 

I have not taken any pictures. None. Need to do better with that. Sorry.

 

Hope you are all having a super week!

LB

Trying something new

I found out through The McMommy Chronicles that there is this new way to blog. it’s called Windows Live Writer and she loved it so much and gushed so much about it that I decided to try it.

 

A few things I noticed right away that I liked……

• It has all the fantastic doodads that Microsoft Word has like automatically underlining when something is spelled incorrectly (right click and it gives the correct spelling). This alone might sell me on this program.
• It is super easy to insert a picture. You just copy and paste them from any of your files and in it goes! It allows you to add a few little touches like borders too which I did to the photo below.

 

I used this photo of Chicago as a celebration of a trip to this wonderful city planned TODAY with our BFF’s Tammy and Paul for June!

• Once you are ready to post, you just hit publish and it puts it into your blog. All done for you. You can even view it from the menu on the right side. Easy Peasy.
• You can add maps, tables, video….all with a click.

 

 

That’s my house. See our trampoline and garden?  It literally took two seconds for that to show up. I am kind of sitting here shocked, actually.

 

 

 

This is where my parents are this week. I miss them.

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Fun album addition!

 

 

I am sold. I think you should check it out.  I love this. Click here to download. Let me know if you have issues when you try to publish. I did and got some help. I can walk you through it.

Our poor Vikes lost last night. HEARTBREAKER of a game. Oh well, great season. Bring on the TWINS!!

Not much

I just don't have much to say! Not much happening here and yet I feel like I am going in 20 different directions at once. Next week will be worse with conferences. I will be wishing for the boringness of this week. There was a little funny thing I wanted to remember to post about so I don't forget it....

Mike and I are trying to get rid of some excess weight. It hasn't been fun, but both of us have been on the treadmill each night, every night. It's a real great time excruciating and we are loving it (yeah, right). I made Mike drag our treadmill (which is the size of a small airplane. Seriously. Mike almost died moving it) out into our downstairs living room, in front of the big TV. I begged him to get me Tivo and now I have no more excuses about why I am not using this machine. So each day after school I spend time with The View and Regis and Kelly. We are BFFs.

Connor would ALWAYS hang out downstairs whenever one of us was on the treadmill. We never thought anything about it. Then about a week ago he started asking, "Are you going to get on the treadmill?" "When are you getting on the treadmill?" "Did you do the treadmill yet?"

Odd.

Mike RUNS on the treadmill, uphill, and over mountains. Me....well, let's just say I don't. Connor really likes to be downstairs when Mike is on the treadmill. There have been a couple of times when Connor has tried to join Mike on the treadmill. Yeah, not such a great cause-and-effect lesson for Connor.

Finally I asked Connor why he always wanted to be around when we were on the treadmill. Did he like to see the river of sweat falling off of us? Did he like to see his mother's jelly jiggle? Did he like to watch the fire come from our faces? What was it?!?!

The sound.

He likes the sound the treadmill makes.

What?!

On to topic number 2....Brett Favre.

The Vikings walked all over the Cowboys last Sunday. It was such a great game! Favre bet Percy Harvin if the Vikings won, he would sing the "pants on the ground" song.

I just love it. It's been so fun to watch this team win. Saints will meet their demise this Sunday and then it's Super Bowl!! (Did I ever tell you the story about walking into the lounge a couple of years ago at work and seeing that a co-worker had lovingly decorated the lounge to get us into the spirit of the big game with a sign that read SUPER BOWEL?)

Oh Happy day!

LB