word of the day is LAZY

I am just so lazy lately.  I haven't made it to they Y in 2 weeks.  I don't feel like doing anything except sit on the couch or lay in bed and watch tv.  I want to be a bear so I can hibernate for the winter.  Every year it is more and more clear to me that I need to move to a place where the winters are milder.  Mackenzie graduates this year and John and I have talked in the past about moving somewhere warmer after that.  Now it is so close and it doesn't seem as realistic.  I know Mackenzie wouldn't want to leave Michigan...........this is where she has always lived, her dad lives here, her friends are all here.  So it would be hard to leave her.  Then there is the matter of our house.  We have so many home projects/repairs that would need to be done around here before it could ever sell.  That unfortunately takes money and talent that neither John nor I have right now.  Maybe this year we can make steps toward improving all that and our house.  I have always wanted to move somewhere that I just love and make that my forever home and Michigan just doesn't feel like home to me even though I have lived here now since I was almost 17.  And life is too short right?

Nothing too exciting to report around here.  Like I said I have been feeling lazy.  The boys are tired of being cooped up inside.  They have been kind of hyper and silly and I feel like they are watching too much tv lately.  Jack has really gotten into PBS sprout online.  It is really a neat website and I think he does learn a lot from it and it has the extra bonus of making him feel more independent and being good with his fine motor skills because he is using the mouse and navigating the page by himself.  (wow, how was that for run-on sentence?)  Yesterday we took them to a place called Playworld that has all of this inflated stuff to play on and the balls and hamster tubes.  They had a great time and Jack was braver then I have ever seen him.  He is always kind of afraid of heights because of his balance issues but by the time we left he was climbing up the stairs and sliding down the big slide.  He also bounced a little bit in the bounce house.  I wish I had some pictures but the video I took was really dark.  It looked like a bad b movie so it isn't worth posting here. 



We are supposed to get hit with a bunch of snow tonight and tomorrow so even though tomorrow is February it doesn't seem like there is an end in sight to this winter.  This morning Jack and I waited outside for his bus for 15 minutes freezing our tushies off.  He was in major meltdown mode because he wanted no part of school today and he wanted his jammies back on and he wanted his boots off and and and.  But he made me laugh because he was so mad at me and he kept saying "stop being a naughty girl, mommy!"



All right, I am going to go back to being lazy now while Charley is busy with Legos and Jack is at school.(probably being a sweetheart for his teachers and saving his tantrums for me.)

 

I can't believe it is already the 21st day of January but thank goodness!  It has been a long month/winter and I have cabin fever big time.  I am not much of a winter weather person and it has been cold here.  I have no energy or motivation for anything so there hasn't been anything really exciting to write about.  The sweet guy in the video above though?  He's got energy.  Man does he have energy.  I think 3 year old boys are about as cute as you can get.  His voice, his movements, his hugs.............all of it.  I wish 3 would last longer but I captured a snippet of it.  Little barefoot yumminess.  Love you so much sweet, sweet, sweet Charwee!

Jackisms

 
Yesterday Jack told me he wanted honey toast and that he was going to eat it all because he wanted to be big and strong so that when he grows up he can be a librarian.  Okay then.