Meet Jesus the Snowman

You would think we would all be used to the massive amounts of snow that fall in New England?1? This storm was supposed to be 6-10 inches, guess what we ended with 22 inches of snow, good lord! School wasn't cancelled, but I kept kids home and Karl had to go to work. We slept in, shoveled, had snow ice cream, made muffins, shoveled and made Jesus our Snowman. Kids are obsessed with God, Jesus and Santa. Liam told me today that Santa should be God's Assistant.

Hurry up Spring, please arrive soon!!

Florida in February, SCORE.

We aren't always the luckiest family when it comes to weather on our vacations, but this trip was fantastic. We managed to hit a record high of 88 in February and other days were between 80-85 degrees, pure bliss. We all had the winter blues with long dark days, a blizzard and lots of grey skies. Stepping off that plane into sunshine was the medicine we all needed. Heaven. We had a wonderful week and wish we weren't back home.

My poor Mom work up the day after we arrived with stomach bug and was down for the count for two days, poor thing. Glad I was there to help lysol the house and get her what she needed while she stayed away from us and kids so no one got sick :).

We spent our days swimming ( kids thrived & can swim without us), snorkling, riding on the golf cart getting lemonade at the soda station and looking for alligators ( kids drove on karl's lap), we took a pirate ship cruise, went to lion country safari and spent a day at my college friend's Mom;s clubhouse with three pools, a waterfall and a fun windy waterslide.  I managed to have a massage, mani/pedi, walk on the beach with Carolyn and a double date for sushi and Karl scored a golf lesson and played 18 holes with my Mom. We also enjoyed a dinner date and saw two movies, nice to feel "free".

We head back over Thanksgiving and can't wait to do it all over again.

Looking for alligators

 after a round of 18

 Argh said Liam the pirate

 dinner with Poppi

 a lil golf anyone?

 picture before dinner

 mini golf at lion country safari

 the prettiest pirate we know

 mimi & poppi

 love my mom

 look at all the golden treasures?

 a perfect swing

 notice the Yankees hat Poppi gave to Liam to protect his scar from the sun

 crazy 5 year olds

 snorkler king

 water fun

 pirate cruise

First Library Card

We had a half day at school today so I surprised the kids and took them to McKenna's for the best pancakes ever ( bacon for maeve) and they asked to get ice scream at Savin scoops. ( This is a part of Dorchester we really miss).

After lunch, I took kids to Thayer Library to get their first library cards. They thought it was so cool to get a card and a "wallet" to put it in to keep safe. We picked out a dozen books. Franklin, Bernstein Bears, Bible Books, Dora and I added in some books on  manners....please, respect, being a good friend etc.

Kids were beyond thrilled to visit the library and requested we go back every two weeks to return and get new books. Looking forward to trying some kids programs too.