2015 :: week 2

January 4

Day 2 of our traveling saga. We caught a 7am flight which meant we had to wake up around 5am to get to the airport on time. If you remember from last week's post it was 8 hours earlier that we found out our original flight was cancelled. Not a lot of sleep happened in between. We were all exhausted, but poor Lauren had the hardest time handling things. She was inconsolable for the first half hour of our first flight and then she passed out. Hard. I was very excited to find a Auntie Anne's pretzel stand close to our gate.

January 5

Monday morning we were all exhausted. We woke up to a very minor blanket of snow and the kids really wanted to play in it. I was much to tired to go out in the cold, so I told them they could only go out if they went on the back porch where I could watch them from the comfort of the couch. They lasted for about twenty minutes. During this time they made some insightful observations. Will: the cold makes my nose run. Lauren: snow tastes like cold water.

January 6

First Tuesday of the month means free mini-build at The Lego Store. This month it was an green alien/monster guy and his dog.

January 7

Lauren and her kids are flying to Boston to visit her grandparents. The kids brought these chairs up from the basement and played with this set up for hours. Lauren continued to play the entire time Will was at school. She can be really great at entertaining herself. She gets very into her little world with her kids and their supplies, but most of the action that happens already happened to someone in our family. For example, she had her 3 year checkup recently and had to examine bunny and look for kitties in her ears just like her doctor did to her. And sometimes her kids are loud and she tells them to stop screaming because it's "givin' me a headache!" Which I'm pretty sure she's heard me say...

January 8

The John's helped us buy a new kitchen table for Christmas. Thanks, Doug and Tina! Anthony put it together this week and Thursday night was our first time eating on it as a family. Despite their pained expressions, the kids actually really like the table. They are just not excited about the dinner I had made. Not an uncommon occurrence I'm afraid.

January 9

How long can you use traveling as an excuse for feeling tired and not motivated to do much? Or the cold? I have abused both this week. Friday night we went to the gym and after exercising let the kids play with basketballs for a bit. It has been cold and we have been tired, but we could all feel the effects of lounging around the house for a week. A day or two is cozy and relaxing, but after a week we were all starting to feel lethargic. 

January 10

The stakes in our area set aside this weekend as a time for members to go on team-ups with the missionaries. Stephanie and I went with the sisters serving in our ward and an investigator to a baptism Saturday evening. It was fun to spend time with the sisters and observe how they teach and to meet Donny from Ethiopia.