February 7th

I took a personal day today in order to spend some one-on-one time with Carmella and chaperone her field trip to Chinatown in Chicago. I had never been there, so really enjoyed the opportunity. We had a little tour/history lesson (indoors because of the weather and slushy mess that was out on the streets) and then enjoyed a delicious lunch before walking around a little and shopping for souvenirs and taking lots of pictures. This is one of my favorites.

February 6th

It's all coming down, just in baby steps!

February 5th

This picture cracks me up...Gina with her big toothless grin & our neighbor Angie with those eyes wide open. They were listening to the kids' choice music channel and dancing to whatever teeny bopper was singing at the moment. TOO CUTE!

February 4th

Well it finally came - 100 Day at school. Gotta love these glasses!

February 3rd

Whoops, didn't take a picture today. Good thing I took a couple yesterday! That was Jack playing out in the snow. Yes, he has 2 different gloves on. You can't see it, but he also has 2 different shoes on. Boys!

February 2nd

One photo today was just not enough. Thanks to all that snow and our SNOW DAY, the kids got to go out and play. Well the big kids anyway, poor Gina was sick. And if you were wondering how a girl with a broken foot and a fracture brace goes out in the snow, I thought I would show you...we call it the plastic bag boot!

February 1st

It's a SNOW DAY!!! Believe it or not...my school district with no busses has only had 3 snowdays in the last 10 years (or something like that) and they actually called a snow day. When I got outside to shovel the driveway though, I'm glad they did. There was at least a foot of snow out there, and here you can see the pile on one side of the driveway. I don't know why these kids didn't want to sleep in though, every other school day it's like pulling teeth to get them out of bed! Poor Gina was upset because she was sooo looking forward to 100 Day, but Monday will be here before we know it.