You have GOT to be kidding me!!!!!

Yes, our warranty is up at 60,000.
Yes, I took the van to the dealership 2 days (20 miles) ago to get it checked out.
Yes, it had a clean a bill of health.

This has to be some kind of joke. Some sick kind of joke.

New work digs

If you happen to come through my office area very often, you know that things and people are always moving around. It is amazing to me how much shifting takes place in this office. Some of my co-workers were talking about it last week and I am currently sitting in my 10th location in the 10 year I have worked in this building (including the adoption agency I worked at prior to working here). I am not complaining at all. I don't mind change at all and am kind of used to it. (I did have 13 roommates in my 4.5 years in college.)

In this final most recent wave of shifting, I simply moved next door. I don't have any pictures of it before the mess, but here is what I walked into Monday morning.

My desk (which you see to the right of this picture) was located where the left door is when I left work on Thursday. The desk has a hutch, which was located in the hallway. All the contents were emptied and placed on the desk I am moving to...which was left full of my co-workers stuff.

Here is a view from the new doorway. (see the hutch?)

After some help from co-workers and a relatively short amount of time,
here is what my work space looks like now.

I feel blessed to work in this place and especially since I only work 15 hours a week, I don't think I have any right to complain about where I am sitting (my 8th location was the cubical you see in the "before" picture with the maroon chair.). I love my co-workers and don't mind my day to day tasks, so it doesn't make sense to be grippy about the "view".

Bren's last Princess Tea Party

Imagine if I liked the holiday!!

I'm sure I would even be able to stand myself!

For my Valentine

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Ok, so I'm working on a theory that if I post my snow days pics we will get to go back to school....

Everyone near us knows we have missed 8 school days because of snow. And 7 of them have been in the last 2 weeks. At first I documented every fun project we did, was truly creative, energized and dreaded the snow melting. 8 snow days later, I am ready to get back to normal. Oh, one thing that some may NOT know is that on one of those two school days this week, Piper was home sick. Now that I have had one day in two weeks of normalcy I completely relate to my dear friend who said she is just ignoring her kids at this point.
I'm sure she meant the same thing I mean in that I am no longer concerned about messes and really who cares if the fort stays out for 3 days straight.
And getting dressed and teeth brushing are overrated.
And they might be eating a snack of peanut butter on a spoon as speak.
And I haven't taken a picture in 3 days.

ahhh..isn't it lovely? I truly do love snow and winter!!

Fort in living room

We baked muffins and cookies.

We played on the computer.

We played outside in short spurts.

We had game night with friends

We had a princess hot chocolate tea party with cakepops and cookies in the aforementioned fort.

Brenna made a paperclip chain and strung it around her room. It totaled 650+ paper clips and she and Josh did some scientific stuff measuring it with standard and non-standard measurement.

We read. A.LOT.

We had cousins night before round 2 of the snow rolled in.

We made some jewelry.

There. That is the summary of our last two weeks. I'm really hoping now that I have posted this, we will be back in school on Monday!! :)