We went sledding to a nearby park both Saturday and Sunday. It wasn't quite as exciting as last weekend and there was some bickering among kids, but it was still fun. And oh, hiking through the winter forest is amazing!!! I saw a Sandhill Crane (I think?). The trail we were on is barely used and we had the sledding hill all to ourselves. Which was good in terms of the pandemic, but no so good for general fun... kids miss doing things with friends.
We have a gently sloped back yard, so after we came home from the trail, the kids took their sleds and continued sledding in the back yard. I was surprised at how much fun they managed to have - they made sled trains, they had races... Just shows that you never know with the kids... we try to take them places we perceive as amazing but (some days) they end up having way more fun in their own back yard, where they know every bush and every bump.
Screen time: The kids were watching Wolfblood, husband and I started watching The Mentalist and we also saw a couple of episodes of Dermot Bannon's Inredible Homes (it was awesome!). The kids did video-calls with their cousins.
Books: I started a new read-aloud with kids: The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid by Colin Meloy. I am working through The American Spy - it's good. It took me a bit of time to get into it, and I have lots of complicated feelings about the characters and the themes, and the more I read it the more I like it...
We had some Vietnamese food (takeout) on Saturday, and I baked fresh bread, and we made Blueberry Pancakes on Sunday morning....
I had to reschedule today's mammogram because of impeding/potential snow this afternoon... quite possible it will turn out to be just a couple of flakes, but I guess it's not worth the risk.
Didn't get done: Hamentashen... We were planning to bake a bunch on Sunday, but then I felt kind of meh about baking, and we were all enjoying being lazy and not doing too much... So yeah, will have to make those sometime in the next couple of days.
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