All it has done is snow lately.  The kids have had three snow days in the last week.  No, they are not complaining.  Is there any better feeling in the world than being told school is canceled?  A whole day has been gifted to you to waste as you see fit.  You can roll over and go back to sleep and then wake up hours later and do absolutely nothing.  Every minute is wonderful. During one of the snow days I taught my daughter how to make cinnamon rolls.  She did a good job and they were greatly appreciated by her father and brother. Don’t they look yummy? It is…

It has been a good week. Last week was hot and muggy and miserable and full of annoying problems but this week, this week has been what summer should be. Of course, the kids go back to school in three weeks.  Every year we just settle in to summer and it is time to start planning for the new school year.  It seems to take them half the summer to decompress and unwind from school stresses and then we have to start all over again.  This has been a good week though and we are going to concentrate on that. I took the kids to Old Sturbridge Village.  I took…

Life lately has been very full of children, children who are off school for the summer and alternate between wanting to do everything right now and wanting to do nothing at all. Life lately has been full of children who are constantly hungry.  If they are gone for the day at school they can’t eat all the food in the house.  They are home.  They eat it all.  And they leave the dishes on the counter.  We are working on that.  Well, I am.  They are proving remarkably obtuse. Life lately has been full of The Lymond Chronicles.  Yes, still.  I am on book four and I have reached the…