offline

As the days seem to be flying by this Winter, (I am still waiting for it to begin) I am mindfully trying to be offline more. 

I check emails and blog in the morning and try to have an bit of time in the late afternoon to check in on things.  In the evening I found I was spending so much time reading- which can be a good thing but I get tried of looking at a screen for too long. So I am trying my best to be online for a half an hour and then be done. Time to create, read in my bed and be present with Eric.

When we head to Vermont for the weekends we no longer have Internet access. This helps me relax more about what I "should" be checking in on. It separates me to what life was before.....

Along these terms I have not been taking too many photos of our daily lives. But we are living.  The weather has been so mild we have been outside much and enjoying each other.

Wishing everyone a wonderful long weekend.  

I will be back here on Tuesday, possibly.

sweet and simple

I said we were going to keep it simple this year.  I always say that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  The boys had plans to buy all sorts of things but with my gentle persuasion we kept it simple. Instead they made coupons for Daddy.   Which were perfect.  I made them each a small notebook. And everyone made their own cards. Even Eric. Which was an awesome sight for me to see. We both sat in silence as we created side by side Monday night.  My heart was filled with so much love for this man.  He sat and colored an "original" card for each of  the boys. He has never been big on creating art, I've always known this. Something about an unimpressive art teacher when he was little. Phooey to her.  Yesterday morning the boys were very impressed to have a card made by Dad. 
Every day I love this man more and more.

forgot about this

As I was unloading pictures from my camera I forgot that we stopped at a brewery last week on our way home. Vermont has a passport that you can get stamped for every brewery that you visit. Eric and I can get into that. The boys enjoy seeing how beer is made as well as we do.  I mean they are learning something .

Sunday Smiles: Making Pancakes

helping dad

Today was our first weekend at home since Christmas. We puttered around the house. Fixing and baking.

Then headed out to bowling and then out to dinner.( so loving the Living Social deals)

Imagine Nation Museum

Lately I have been getting some pretty cool deals on Living Social and Groupon websites. If you don't know about them you should check them out. They have deals to places near you plus some that are national. So last week we got a deal to a museum and were able to meet friends there today. It was great to see these friends as it had been awhile.  

So a good day of play......

Although there are some children's museums that we are beginning to outgrow as I mentioned here, we still manage to have fun. 

I am thinking hard about taking advantage about membership. It gets you into over 100 museum across the country. 5 alone in our state and quite a few in neighboring states, which are still under a 2 hour's drive.  They will be changing the way the reciprocal program works- increasing the membership fee and only getting half off instead of free admission so this may be "the year of museums".

in my life right now

I am taking a day to read, read, and get some rest.

Marveling at how many books we got from the library yesterday.

Loving how much the boys enjoy reading. 

So excited that William has reach the point where he just can't put a book down until he finishes.

Grateful the boys can take a day to just play, read and get along while Mama gets lots of rest.