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I have been meaning to get on here, but I haven't had too much to blog about lately. Plus I have the winter blahs so bad I am finding it hard to get myself to do anything. I have never realized before how much I love the sun until this winter. All these cold, grey days are really hard to take. Fortunately, we were blessed last week with two beautiful, sunny days. Paige, Ben and I took advantage of them by going on a long bike ride. But where's Porter, you ask? He couldn't drag himself away from his video games. Crazy kid. I guess he figured he had enjoyed the nice weather enough at recess.

The kids are definitely sick of being cooped up inside all the time. They get sick of each other pretty quickly. Ben has decided that he needs us to keep him entertained constantly. From the time he wakes up he is asking, "Wanna play cars (or Rescue Heroes, or trains, or computer.....) with me.....it's really fun!?" And he is not good at taking no for an answer. Luckily for me, when Paige is here he bugs her instead of me. She is getting pretty creative at dealing with him. The other morning I heard him asking her "Wanna play "leaving Taigey-poo alone"?" So funny. Yesterday morning Paige was getting ready for school and he kept following her around asking what they were playing. Paige finally said she was playing "getting ready for school". Ben wasn't too impressed with that and kept bugging her. I finally grabbed him and put him on my lap and said "Let's play "snuggling with mommy!". He was still for a second like he didn't know what to think and then he said, "Uhhh........this is boring." And then he ran off.

Every January Matt starts to get the gardening itch. Out come his gardening books and the seeds, and he starts to plan out what he wants to plant and where it's going to go. I think that is what keeps him going for these last months before spring. He has already starting growing some of the seeds even though he knows it is way too soon. He just can't help himself. So, this is what we have going on in our basement:

As for me, I have been trying really hard to not feel guilty about taking time for myself and to not say YES to everything that I am asked to do. I have been trying really hard to de-stress and simplify my life. It has been so nice to be able to get things done around here that I have been wanting to do forever. My craft room is actually clean and organized for the first time in a long time. And for those of you that have seen my craft room before you know what a major feat it was to clean it up. I have also started to exercise on a regular basis again......something that I let slide because I always felt like I had too many other things to do. And, that is actually what I should go do now before it gets too late. So.........later!