January happenings

A few pics from our January:

I knitted another "infinity cowl" for a friend.

Katie (#20) has had lots of practices and basketball games this month.  She and her team have improved so much, and she loves the game!

Katie got to be an altar server for a school mass last week.

Cute little Katie with her friends!

I got to be a chaperone/driver for Megan's class field trip a few weeks ago.  We went to our city's museum, which has a restored farmhouse.  The kids had lots of fun hauling water, washing clothes, carding wool, and stuffing mattresses.  And they learned a lot about our city's history, too!

The girls are now into stargazing!  Katie & Megan picked astronomy projects for the science fair this year, and love to look outside for their favorite constellations!

Jessica wants to be a botanist, so she chose a flower project for her science fair poster.  Can you see the pride and happiness just oozing out of her in this picture!?

I'll put the science fair pics on another post.  Nothing much else is going on...same old craziness with basketball, ballet, and choir.  Did I mention that I am now "babysitting" a few afternoons per week?  I help out a family in our neighborhood with a disabled 12-yr-old son, I get him off the school bus and hang out with him inside his house for 45 min til his big brother gets home from high school.  He and Jessi are good buds...they both love Dr. Seuss books!  She reads to him every time, and he usually listens.  He also likes to play the game of fetch with her...throwing a book on the ground, and laughing hysterically when she picks it up. She is such a good sport, and is so kind and patient with him.  It has been a good experience.

We have lost power twice in the past few weeks, which is always an unwelcome hiccup.  We had a snow day on Monday due to freezing rain.  And tonight it's dropping from 62 to 22, so who knows if we'll have school tomorrow after the three days of rain freezes solid.