Weekend Report

 Fun stuff:

• Sledding with friends: we took our friends on our favorite sledding hill! The snow wasn't ideal, but the kids made it work. There was some sibling drama (our kids), but overall it was all good.
• Hiking on a wintery trail (beautiful!)
• Working on a snow fort with kids
• Kids found giant icicles (and ate them)
• Laundry, laundry, and even more laundry
• Husband bought a giant push-cart to move yard-stuff around. Kids converted it to a covered wagon, pioneer-style, and proceeded to play "Laura's Family". Girls dressed up and had some awesome pretend-play for hours. Our son was "Pa" for a bit (he then took a break to play Minecraft), our older daughter was "Ma", and our younger daughter was Mary. Not sure what happened to Laura.
• I baked bread.

Movies and shows

• Husband and I finished 8th season of Dexter! I liked the ending. I was kind of glad to end the show - it lost most of its humor and got pretty dark. But wait, there is now season 9... except we can't get it for free at the moment, so we'll wait until we can. 
• Watched Indiana Jones (The Last Crusade) with kids. Loved it! Hollywood at it's best. Entertaining, funny, and not too deep.
• Husband watched a couple of episodes of Monk with kids. 
• After much deliberation, husband and I started watching "Grandchester" as our "grown-up" show after kids go to bed. 

Books

• I am almost half-way trough Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods". I have mixed feelings about it - I sort of like it, but it also sort of annoys me sometimes, and the humor is a bit on the mean side, and he definitely likes to complain. It wasn't what I expected - I guess that's the main thing. I thought it would be more like Gerald Durrell (loved his books when I was a kid) - funny, kind, curiosity-inducing, and cautiously hopeful. 
• I am also working my way through "Termination Shock" by Neil Stephenson. I like it, but I need breaks from it.

Games

• Geography-themed Trivia Pursuit - the game we have is from the late 80's or early 90's, I believe. That makes things a bit more challenging - because geographic and historic facts changed quite a bit since then. Soviet Union was still a thing! And Cambodia was Kampuchea. It's like playing Trivia Pursuit in a time machine.