Parentheticals

Today when we were walking to church, Timmy came up with a new retirement plan for us: Mike  would become the president of the US for two years, and then retire from it (since we told him that after someone becomes the president they keep paying them for the rest of their life, and so after being president for four years you could retire, and he decided that since we are "half way" to retirement, I only would have to be president for two years.) So, if you haven't voted in the primaries yet. Mike for president. This week we realized that no-one in the family has been sick for  3 weeks and one day. This is quite surprising, since ordinarily during winter we get sick more often than that. This week has also been unseasonably warm. It has been nice after that snowstorm. The kids have not whined at play group much at all. We even skipped going to the library (gasp) to play outside more. (The last three pictures were taken by Rea.) Rea and Sara got up at 5:00 am t...

Carnival ended this week with Mardi Gras on Tuesday February 13th. We had planned to invite all the kids in the neighborhood to parade around the park and eat doughnuts to celebrate. We bought party favors and Mardi Gras beads and invited everyone we knew. Then Monday night, the kids started throwing up. All four of them threw up multiple times that night, so there went our Mardi Gras plans. We spent the day laying around watching movies (Wild Kratts, Nothing Can Stop the Smooze, and Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella), which was fun, but not Mardi Gras. Alison was going to let it drop, but the kids insisted that Mardi Gras be rescheduled. So we emailed everyone to come to the park Thursday after school. Thursday ended up having a bitter, biting wind that froze us to tears. No one else braved the wind to join us, so the kids got to eat some doughnut holes and then went home. So we took our decorated bikes and doughnuts to our regular park day on Friday. Then at least we had som...