January Doin's

I was hoping to participate in Show and Tell Friday today, but alas, our main computer- which downloads the pictures- is down right now. Hopefully next week!

So, this will just have to be a sort of condensed "catch up" post...

But before I forget, remember our next Home School Open House is this coming Tuesday!!!


Please feel free to grab the button and join in...there should be a Mr. Linky and I love to see what everyone else is doing!

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While we did have a December "deep freeze", we are now enjoying sunshine and balmy weather up in the 50's lately while the rest of you shiver in parkas. ;)

Our family has all been enjoying our new Wii Fit that my wonderful husband surprised us with at Christmas. My nine year old especially is the Wii Champion...
However, I do my share, too. You can pick either a male or female coach...I have the guy and I named him Raoul...

On a more serious note, I found out today that my mom is going to need surgery to remove a cataract at the end of this month.
She has had this surgery before many years ago...but now she's 81, so I hope you'll pray with me for all to go smoothly for her. She is as sharp as a tack and loves to read all the time, so I'm praying that her eye sight in that eye is restored to her well.

I'm heading down there just to visit and spend the night at her place this weekend while my husband and girls hang out at home...It's always fun to get away once in a great while and just relax by myself with Mom....usually chatting and watching old movies!
EDITED: Oh bummer...found out we need to postpone our visit...hubby is working late and since my dog recently ate my cell phone and all, it just wasn't working out this time!

As I mentioned in my last post, our family loved watching Anne of Green Gables together (and the girls and I listened to the CD at bedtime) so we all became very much immersed in the world of Avonlea.
So much so that my six year old made her own paper dolls of the characters!

(However, she did re-enact the one famous scene and had a paper Anne break an invisible slate over poor paper Gilbert's head!)



We are thinking seriously of visiting Prince Edward Island, home of Anne, sometime in the not to distant future! Right now, it's just in the dreaming and checking out stage...but even my husband is all set to go! (But he wants to make a pit stop in NYC...hmmm.)

And how did it get to be so close to turning another number already? I'm not sure I'm liking that so much...
Even though my birthday looms ever so near, we probably won't be doing anything big this year. It's not like last year when it was a sort of "half- milestone" and I ended up having three days of celebrations...whew!
(Part 2 was also here...)

But...the girls are excited to be staying over night with a favorite uncle and aunt while my husband takes me out to dinner...and then we get to stay home and pretend we're at a fancy Bed and Breakfast! Still, that could be fun...;)

But for now, I'll leave you with memories of a favorite childhood birthday of mine...my seventh, to be exact!


Anyone remember Farrell's and the mountains of ice cream in those big silver bowls as the waiters sang and clapped? I obviously felt a little shy as all eyes turned toward me with all the birthday commotion, though!
And it's hard for me to believe that my youngest daughter will be turning this age on her next birthday, too...sigh...

Blessings!