Sweetheart at the Sweetheart's Dance

I love this beautiful girl and I am so proud to be her mom. Of all the 8th grade girls at the dance this year, she was the most lovely and radiant. She also has the most maturity (if you ask me) and the most level head. She glows with goodness. I don't have to remind her to have standards or reign her in with a lot of rules. She just gets it.

Scouts and Primary

Just some activities we had this month - Nerf War with the Webelos and General Broadcast with the Primary and their parents. Two thumbs up!

 

Serious Cold Snap

In case you though the weather had finally gotten boring in Kansas, think again! We had yet another new and interesting (and exciting) display of mother nature on the high plains. This year in early February, we had two weeks of sustained below freezing temps (as cold as -20 degrees at times). The lake by our house froze completely over - something we have never seen before. And school was canceled a couple of times and delayed many times, just because of the sheer cold. The town lost power at one point, but our house and our generator held strong and we never had to worry or suffer. The frozen landscape was absolutely beautiful. I was SO tempted to re-create the ice skating scene from Little Women, but I figured I better not encourage my kids to go out on the ice. Instead we threw lots of heavy rocks at it.

Valentine's Day

I'm so lucky to have so many sweethearts and a day to celebrate so much love! Devin was so sweet to think of Mae and send her a surprise at school - love that guy. I love all my babies so much. I am seriously so grateful to have so many people to love and to love me back. I seem to swim in joy good fortune all my days because of these people that belong to me. I especially love my tall, dark, handsome eternal companion, and our romantic sushi dates.

 

Liam's Last Pinewood Derby

Liam and his den are about to graduate from Cub Scouts. Scott and I have been den leaders of this group since they started out as Wolf Cubs. This was their last Pinewood Derby. Liam's car ended up with a wobble and he didn't win anything but all our boys turned out and raced and I was proud of all of them. Reedy got 3rd place in his age group. We also took our den to Rolla Rena for a Nerf War. It was a stone that killed two birds by fulfilling an elective requirement and being a fun end-of-the-journey celebration.