Day 28--I Need a Day Off Too!

The kids have sure been loving these five days in a row off school, but I am exhausted. I am so done with entertaining and chauffeuring and junk food and chauffeuring and cleaning and chauffeuring and calming and chauffeuring. When is my day off?

Day 27--At Long Last...

Hip hip hooray! At long last the skies have opened up and given us snow! It was already a day off of school, so they just got to play, play, play all day! Yay!

Now they're just hoping the stars align and that school will be canceled tomorrow to make it a five day weekend!

Day 25--My Handsome Hubby

I really didn't take much in the way of pictures today, except for a few of Glen taken merely to settle this bet.
So today's picture is Glen looking quite dashing in his GRAY suit (thanks for backing me up everyone). I have to say that despite his obvious color identification issues, I married a pretty cool guy. He's smart, handsome, kind, gentle, hard-working, and thoughtful...what more could I ask for?

Day 24--Guided Tour

At our school's Spring Picnic we won a guided tour of the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum with our favorite teacher ever...Mr. Stephens! He was in the Air Force for 27 years and took us on a personalized tour today.

We've been to the Air and Space Museum (this one and the one downtown) a gazillion times over the 12 years we've lived in the East, but we learned more about airplanes and the history of flight in 2 hours today than we ever learned in those previous dozens of trips! It was a fascinating and informative tour and we were so grateful for his kindness and patience with us and our myriad of questions.

Day 23--Taking Advantage of a Warm Day in January

We just couldn't resist the 60 degree day in the middle of January, so we spent the afternoon at Carderock, Maryland so Spencer could get some rock climbing in!
The only time that Spencer lets me freely take pictures of him is while he's rock climbing, so I took full advantage of his willingness (and the good light) and took a gazillion.

Then I stretched my luck and asked him to pose with Ellie for me. I think he was so happy I'd taken him rock climbing that he reluctantly agreed. Of course smiling was too much to ask of him, but still I think it's such a sweet picture of the two of them.

I decided to turn the tables on him and ask him to take a few shots of Ellie and I. He wasn't crazy about that idea either, but he did take a couple of really cute ones. I just loved how this one turned out.

Day 22--Self Imposed Stress

I'll be the first to admit that 80% of my stress is self-imposed. I've always thrived on a project with a deadline. This photo shows my self imposed stress of the day...making cards for card club! I always dread it before I do it, then once I start I remember how much I love creating things.