Slices of Life

*Originally posted February 6, 2013 when the boys were 5, 7, & 8  The boys slept great last night and had so much fun sleeping together in the fort they asked if they could do it again tonight.  I did say no but promised they could do it again another night. We could hear them giggling, reading books using their book lights, and playing a bit before they finally settled down to sleep last night.  We heard footsteps up and down the stairs as they brought down more stuffed animals, a few toys and even some Lego's.  For the most part as long as they were getting along and staying quiet we tried not to get too upset.  Luckily, we don't have to get up at a certain time to be off to school for the day.          They were overjoyed to find it had snowed last night and first thing this morning Ian headed outside to shovel and plow.  Evan brought over all his Pigeon books by Mo Willems and asked me to read t...

Oh wow; what a weird, weird week it's been! Last Tuesday I headed off to Yoga class but less than 1/4 of the way through the class I was hit with what I was so sure was a stomach bug (cold sweat, dizziness, stomach pain, etc) so I left, went home, and rested.... and 4 hours later everything passed and I felt fine. Ate lunch, dinner, etc. Weird but glad to be feeling better I shrugged it off-- still have no clue what that was but I've felt fine ever since.    Then on Wednesday we noticed our thermostat turned red which means there's a problem with our heating system. Luckily my husband is one of those guys with skills and got it working again (since it was only 5 when we woke up the next morning!). The heat had stopped working again at some point in the night but the house was still 60 and he worked to get it going again and ordered the parts we need to fix it for good. Another oddity but not unheard of. I shrugged that off too.   Then Thursday morning I'm sitting in the...

It's the second Monday and time for Share Our Lives. The monthly link up where we share snippets of our lives. I was thrilled when we decided to share binge worthy shows this month. I'm also running out of things to watch so I hope you all have some great ideas!   I had lots of great ideas for this post but I decided to list those shows that I have enjoyed re-watching while binging or binged all once in their entirety since they're older shows.    Shows like: Cougar Town   Schitt's Creek   Gilmore Girls   Friends   American Housewife   The Big Bang Theory   Grace & Frankie   Modern Family    Life in Pieces   So Help Me Todd   The Resident    Younger   Mom   Hot in Cleveland   I hope you join us next month when we'll be talking about our most frequent grocery store buys.    You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter Linking up with:  

All in all we had a pretty nice January. Alec headed back to school on the 4th for classes on the 5th and by Wednesday the 7th my brother had moved into Alec room; it's only temporary as Alec will need his room back when he moves home in April but it's been nice having my brother around and talking with/seeing him more. We also had some mild winter days that were conducive to hiking and I sure made the most of that. Of course it is Ct in winter so we had plenty of snowy days too and one or two really big storms and ended the month with a very long arctic freeze.  1. So thankful everyone made it safely home with the roads being so awful most of the day.  We woke to lots of snow so Ian headed out plowing while my husband and I headed to BJ's (by the time we got home the other 2 boys had left for their jobs as well) then it was a quiet afternoon reading, blogging and watching TV, ended the night with a delicious dinner and cards with my mother in law.  5,105 steps.  ...