The 2nd half of February did not go how I thought it would. On President's Day I woke up with a sore throat and not feeling good. I had to reschedule my dentist appointment that was scheduled for that morning. Thankfully, the kids did not have school, so I didn't have to wake up early for that and was able to do a lot of resting. The next day I was feeling fine, until the end of the day when my throat started to hurt again. Then it turned into a cold by Wednesday. I was tired, stuffy and had a dull pain in my throat for several days. Sometimes I would feel better and then I didn't feel good again. I was sick for about 2 weeks total. I can't complain though, because I have been much sicker than this before and I was just counting my blessings that I wasn't terribly sick. That Saturday was Charlotte's last basketball game and I'm glad I felt good enough to go see her play again. I honestly don't remember now if they won that game, but overall, I believe they won 4 out of 6 games, which is pretty good. Charlotte loved playing and didn't want the season to end, so I think that means she'll play for her school next year. She might even do both. I came to find out that the 7th grader on their team was playing for their team and her school. She was able to do that because she was still 12 years old when signing up and that's the cut off age for the city league.
I decided that during the time I was sick, and trying not to do too much, that I would work on the owl puzzle I started on Feb 13th. It was a 1000-piece puzzle but had lots of colors. I was able to do this one without looking at the letters on the back of each piece. I may have looked at a handful of them, but that was it.
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| The girls came in to put the last two pieces in for me. |
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| It sure is handy to have this puzzle board with drawers that my dad gave me. |
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| I'm thinking that A.I. must have been used to make this picture because sometimes you get weird things that don't make sense when using A.I. |
Just when we thought we weren't going to get even one snowflake this fall or winter, we woke up to a light layer on the 20th. Alice went out and played with it as much as she could before going to school because she knew it would be gone by the time she got home.
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| I like to call this a Frosted Mini Wheats type of snow because that's what the grass looks like to me. |
We also had our 2nd annual ward "No Holds Pinewood Derby" on the 20th. There are basically no rules, except no combustion and your car must stay on the track (last year there was a bungee cord involved for somebody's car). This year we actually did some planning on our car and came up with a Harry Potter themed car. Charlotte donated her Buckbeak and Harry Lego characters to ride on top of the car. Curtis bought a motorized fan to attach to the back. Each time our car was up on the track, I would play Buckbeak's flight music from the 3rd movie on a small portable speaker that I brought. It was fun. Our car won 2nd place for fastest car, although it would have won 1st place had Buckbeak not fallen off on the very last race.
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| We named our car "Buckbeak's Flight" |
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| Working on the car. Charlotte helped with sanding and painting. Curtis took pictures of her but never sent them to me. |
The very next week, Charlotte came home with a fever and cough on Tuesday. She missed school on Wednesday but was able to go back on Thursday. Then Thursday night (early Friday morning), Alice woke me up in the middle of the night with an upset stomach and a mess to clean. After that she developed a fever and cough. The fever lasted for 4 days, and I was beginning to wonder if I should take her in. I called the doctor's office, and the nurse was gone that day and there weren't any openings either. I decided to wait another day before deciding if I should take her to a quick care. Thankfully, her fever broke the next morning. She only missed one day of school because there wasn't any school on that Friday (the first day she got sick). I also had to reschedule Alice's dentist appointment. The girls both had coughs and they slowly got better over time, as coughs usually do. Jack started to get sick not long after all of the girls but thankfully he never had a fever and chills like the girls did. He basically had the same type of cold I did. Now everyone is feeling better. There were a few days where it was warm, and I opened the windows for several hours to air out our house. Then it got cold again. It will be nice when we can do it again and more regularly. Bring on Spring and warmer weather!
