Adventures in La La Land

Were you guys worried I'd neglect the Saturday 7 two weeks in a row?! Never fear! I am here in all my witty and wonderful glory. (My humility went the way of last week's Saturday 7 . . .) Actually, prepare yourself that this isn't going to be a particularly witty entry. I'm off my game lately. 1. Backtracking a little . . . we survived our week of Justin working on the other side of the state. The kids were really good and I didn't cook all week. Win! The first night Justin was gone I told the kids we were having cereal for dinner. They were so shocked. Haha. They're not usually big cereal eaters, but I bought sugary cereals specifically for the occasion and we all binged on Cinnamon Life and Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Once the girls heard I wasn't cooking, though, they took it upon themselves to prepare "fancy dinner" twice during the week. Lena made salami and cheese sandwiches and fruit salad. And Lucy made macaroni with hot dogs and frui...

1. We survived the ice-pocalypse last weekend and never even lost power! Whew! It was kind of nice to have a relaxing weekend at home, but we were all going stir crazy by Monday afternoon (snow day). Everyone in Levi's crib All of our East facing windows were iced over like this most of the day Sunday My misleading Instagram picture - like we're spending our ice day playing board games happily. We did play this game, but there was a lot of yelling, "It is your turn!!" and for every game we played, the girls watched 3 hours of TV. Lol Sunday morning, the girls made me breakfast with a special treat. Levi stole all my treats.  Teaching Grandpa how to play Headbanz It never ceases to amaze me that when Justin lays in bed to watch TV no one notices. But when I lay down to watch Fixer Upper, everyone piles on top of me. (I had a girl on each side of me in this picture.)  Craft time 2. I spent much of our ice weekend reading books. Last ...