Slices of Life

It's the last Wednesday of the month and time to link up with Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday. I won't have as many photos as usual since they're on my laptop and that is home in CT... I only have the last few days on my phone.   What We're Eating:  Evan and I flew to North Carolina for a long weekend and got stuck here since a blizzard hit the east coast and airports shut down (last I heard Providence RI [where we fly into] got 37.5 inches!). We're Eating things like: Crepes from Our Crepes and More.  Mine was a tiramisu crepe. Then for dinner my mom had homemade meatballs and sauce with spaghetti, garlic bread, and salad.      Breakfast has consisted of yogurt parfait bowls (sorry some photos are sidways and upside I don't have my laptop with me and Blogger is a bit limited on the phone app) or eggs with sourdough toast.  We had a huge family cookout with chicken, burgers, roasted potatoes, veggies, and salad with pineapple...

*Originally posted February 21, 2014 when the boys were 6, 8, & 9  I really still am completely unmotivated to do any schoolwork with the boys.  The winter dole drums are here to stay and it doesn't help that it's a rainy, messy, gray day out. Spring can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned and at this point we're all just hanging in there hoping we can make it another month or two until we can get out of this funk we're in.  Everyone is testy, antsy, and a bit uncooperative-- or so I thought.  In desperation for something to do today and some way to show that we're actually learning, I turned to the pile of worksheets I had printed off the computer and decided to use those today. I don't love worksheets and try not to use them much with the boys but I'll freely admit we rely on them a lot during the winter.  Why do we use them if I don't really like them? My boys do tend to enjoy worksheets; they don't love them either bu...