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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Randoms from a dark hotel room....

That title sounds creepy. It's really not creepy here. We escaped the house and headed to the Great Wolf Lodge for the night. After last weekend, 4 snow days, and then the upcoming 4 day weekend......we had to "get out of Dodge". We are only here for one night and we are having a ball. I think Little Man has had a smile of his face since we pulled in. And of course, we forgot the camera.

Everyone is now asleep and I am sitting in the dark room not feeling sleepy at all.

Since our district has teachers institute tomorrow, the rest of the world is in school. This place is very quite and the water park is not busy at all. Just perfect. I wish I could take credit for the idea, but we joined in on the plans that our good friends, The Lenders, already had.

The last few days had it's ups and downs. Snowday #1 was fun. Cookie baking, hot chocolate, fun in the snow.....all the perfect ingredients for a great snow day. Day 2....I felt very trapped. The kids were climbing the walls and therefor I was pulling out my hair. Day 3: Ben got my car down our steep, very icy drive and we were able to head to the mall. (There is a very good reason why I don't go the the mall often. Dave Ramsey would not have been proud of me. But....that day was so much better than Day 2!) And then Snow Day #4: we ended up here.....so life feels much, much better. Daddy will gone working tomorrow so I will have all 3 at the waterpark by myself. I think it will be fine. The girls will just have to stick together. Little Man and I will hang out.

Here is what else is going on:

Little Man is obsessed with finding out where this baby is going to come out. Daddy took him to the hog house over Christmas and let him watch baby pigs being born. B/c of this he has questions for me daily. I'm very open about that type of stuff with the girls....but I'm not ready for my 3 year old boy to make any announcements at preschool.

I did not finish reading my Bible last year as planned. I now have less than 100 pages to go. I sneak it in when I can. I was sitting in the bathroom reading Hebrews just before I jumped onto the computer. Reading through the Bible has been one of the best decisions of my life. I can't wait to get back to the blog and make up for lost time. I want to make sure I get all of my thoughts written down. Then after I finish blogging the New Testament I look forward to digging in deeper. I start two small group studies next week. Good stuff ahead!!

My pregnancy book says I start my 3rd trimester Tuesday! Yeah, the final stretch. I had a 7 pound gain this last month. The holidays did a job on my rear end. Oh well....

Why do hotel TVs have a dark blank pause between channels. So annoying! It takes forever to flip thought channels.

My mom got me a panini press (Is that how you spell it?) for Christmas. I think it's the best thing ever! I have been making some awesome restaurant quality sandwiches this week. I'm in love!

I guess I should try to sleep since the rest of this room is out like a light. I assume my hubby fell asleep with Little Man b/c I have not heard a peep from that end of the room in a very long time.

Goodnight!