2014 :: week 1

I'm not really sure how long I will keep up the photo a day posts. Sometimes I wonder how I will be able to do this once the kids are older and doing more of their own things. Will the photos I take at that point be a very accurate measure of what our family is doing? But that is still pretty far down the line. I suppose because I don't have an "end date" in mind right now I wonder when that will be. Will I really take a picture each day for the rest of my life? In the meantime, I enjoy looking back at these posts and seeing what we were doing last year at the same time, or two years ago at some points, so I will keep taking pictures and posting. For now.

Sunday was Anthony's birthday. My birthday present to him was turning off my alarm and sleeping in while he got up with the kids and got them ready for church so he could see how much he is capable of. Not really. In my sleepy state I forgot it was his birthday and felt a bit guilty when I realized what I had done. After church we feasted on steak, mashed potatoes, and asparagus per his request. Then we washed that down with a Jello No-bake Cheesecake.

Monday morning we went to the Sealife Aquarium with Jill. Will earned the trip for a month of wearing his eye patch, but agreed to wait an extra 2 weeks before going so Jill could come too. Will had a blast showing off his knowledge and Lauren was good for the first five minutes, so the trip went just as I predicted.

We had a pretty quiet New Years Eve. We ate an early dinner and then went to our friends' home for a few hours. We clearly stayed too late, because Lauren could hardly handle life by the time we got home.

The kids were really excited to take down our Christmas decorations New Year's Day. As much as anything I think they were excited about a mom and dad sanctioned chance to touch the ornaments. It was kind of sad to put the stuff away, but as usual it is always kind of nice to have a clean house as we start the new year.

Our Christmas gift to ourselves was a new headboard and bed frame, thanks to a great Black Friday sale. We finally got around to putting it together this week. Anthony and Will did a great job assembling all the bed. I love how it looks, and feel a greater sense of urgency to paint our room.

The kids got some things that glow in the dark for Christmas they enjoy playing with. Will is playing with the light saber he got from Nana and Papa, and Lauren is holding a star night light.

Saturday we bought some lumber for a new house project. The kids were super excited to be at Home Depot until I made them get in a cart. Thank goodness there was popcorn and a Little Builder's workshop to entertain the kids for the twenty minutes we were there.