Ground hogs day brings up the movie of the same day over and over. With out a post since early December it seems to be fitting and a cautionary tale at the same time. Each day seems to repeat as we rush about in the routine, but in looking back each day has had plenty of splendid and unique moments. December found us making the rounds we hit TR and EC for a gathering of clans with laughs and more laughs. The year ended with cookies to be frosted, gingerbread houses to be made and presents to be opened. Grace tried her hand this year at making the spaghetti noodles for Christmas Eve dinner, always a highly anticipated tradition and the year began with a party of pizza and slime and what sounded like the shrieks of a hundred girls. Grace is playing Basketball most every weekend and doing really well both individually and as a team. She has become a rebounding monster and a great team player. Sophia is playing indoor soccer with the high school team and the extra touches on the ball are helping her see the game as a whole and be more anticipatory. Merrick too is playing in indoor soccer in the evenings and making some great shots that really echo off the boards. Ella has added extra band practices at night in preparation to marching in Disney World over spring break and playing her heart out for the pep band during the basketball games. She is still playing the piano and has a competition coming up at the end of the month. We just came out of the autumnally predicted polar vortex with temperatures in the negative twenties. The arctic blast followed on the heels of big snow storm that cancelled school on Monday and then left the cold to take out two more days during the week. It was our first real snow of the year having spent most of the winter looking at brown grass. We spent time at home playing a new board game, Catan, and doing a big puzzle next to the heat of the fireplace. It was a pretty relaxing way to spend a few days...other than the missing piece that we are sure was Oliver's attempt to get into the action. We even fired up the camp stoves to make some smores. Sophia drove, yup drove, Amy to the store to get smores supplies and then we brought a little taste of summer indoors. We have got some outdoor time mixed into the weather and rush, Grace, Amy and I took Oliver for a woods run in Baird's creek and walked the snowy hills in balmy conditions. He gets so excited and tries to help but mostly just jumps on our legs. Grace had him playing in the backyard during the snow storm, but he really just wants to run off with her hat. The kids and I did do spend some time on the ice, skating in the shadow of Lambeau. We played tag until I was scolded by the attendants for going to fast and after several hours and muscle weary legs we headed over to the ice sculptures that were on display. Obviously it should be a no touching scenario but the temptations of the clarity and smoothness of the ice was too much temptation for everyone involved. Somewhere in the mix of days Grace won her classes Geo-Bee, a geography competition and then was put on stage to win a $50,000 scholarship opportunity. She did really well and maybe it is parental bias or maybe it is honest objective analysis but I think many of her questions were way harder than what those other kids had to answer.
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