More Snow!

Well, we are getting some more snow. I'm so sick of the stuff.  I'm ready for spring.  This has been a super busy couple of weeks.  The kids at school have been absolutely awful!  We can't figure out what it is exactly.  Usually we don't see these kinds of behaviors and low grades until about spring break, but it has started super early this year.  It's going to be a long semester!

My girls have been fairly good for the past few weeks.  However last weekend we went 'round and 'round with Madison.  She did not want to listen and learn from her "past experiences", which involved spankings. That girl was in trouble all weekend long!  I hope this weekend goes better.  She has been pretty good all week this week.

Abby is definitely in the terrible two's.  She's really not as bad as Madison was though.  She's talking a lot now.  I can usually understand everything that she says.

We finally got our new mattress.  I can't say that it's helped my back much, but I'm sleeping better.  With weather like this though, I just want to go into hybernation though.

I guess that I should not complain so much about the snow.  It could be worse.  I've not talked to any family in Arkansas yet today, but they were supposed to get lots of ice and snow.  I'm hoping that they did not have it as bad as was expected.  But I do hope I can make it home from work today.  We made it to town, but I was uneasy.  It will be much worse on our way home.  I'd not be as nervous if I did not have the girls with me.  I just fear getting stranded or in an accident with them.

Joe did not have to go to Tulsa today.  I'm thankful for that.  Yesterday he just took one load to Carthage, Mo.  Maybe we can get the girls out in the snow this weekend.  We need to have some family fun.  Hopefully we will make it to Church on Sunday.  I just hate to miss.

Well, I've got to go for now.  These kids are not finding the video on Congress as exciting as they should!  :o)

Cassie

Is it Friday yet?

Whew!  This week has been busy.  Why?  I don't know.  The snow is finally melting, thank goodness!  It seems like the girls have been restless.  It's probably due to the weather.  I have not wanted to get out of bed all week long, myself. 

Leanne and I are planning to go to the mall in Joplin on Saturday.  We have a sitter watching my girls and her foster boys at my house.  They all play pretty well together and are close in age.  The sitter said that she was up for it, so we aren't going to give her a chance to back out!  Leanne's birthday was Wednesday, so we are going to celebrate with a little shopping, and maybe a pedicure!  We need it! :o)

We've got to get to church on Sunday.  We have been missing too often lately.  Guess that means that I'm going to do very little house work this weekend.  I'd not complain about that, but the house is a real mess.  I have such a hard time keeping up. Wish that I could afford a house keeper to help me out once a week.  Maybe if I had a bigger house----the mess would just be spread out a little more and not quite as noticealbe, 'ya think?  :o)

Joe has been super busy with work.  He's just working long hours.  He has to go to Tulsa twice a day.  Hopefully this weekend he can get the cattle worked.  We still have not weaned the calves.  The are no longer calves, but good sized cows!

Cassie

I survived!

Well, my two week vacation is over---if you could call it a vacation.  I was super busy.  Several trips to the chriopractor and Wal-mart kept me busy.  We had a full week off before Christmas.  That was nice.  We've never had that much time off before the holiday.  I was able to clean the house, wrap presents, and do some cooking.  We did not go home for Christmas.  We simply just did not have the time and engergy for it this year.  I fixed us a nice Christmas dinner (most of which was prepared on Christmas Eve day).  The girls were up by about 6:15 and everything was opened by about 7:00!

Christmas Eve and Christmas day it sleeted and snowed.  The wind blew so most of the snow just ended up in snow drifts.  Santa was prepared though; he equipped us with new sleds.  He must have known it was coming!  It was way too cold to take the girls out for a few days though.  Saturday night our sitter came over and kept the girls for us while we went out to dinner and a movie.  That was a first in quite a while!  Sunday afternoon we took the girls out sledding for a short while.  They really enjoyed that, but it was still too cold.

Monday, Joe's parents and daughter came up for a very short visit.  The girls were glad to see them.  Joe was at work, however.  They managed to catch him at work while he was loading the truck to go to Tulsa for his second run.  Tuesday was a trip to town.  The girls went to daycare for a few hours.  I went to the chiropractor again, did some other errands, and met Leanne for lunch.  We were both in need of a sanity break!  Wednesday afternoon the sitter kept the girls while I went on the truck with Joe to Tulsa.  I enjoyed spending a little bit of time with him.  He's been working so much lately that we've seen very little of him.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day was spent in Kansas City.  We took the girls to the Great Wolf Lodge and water park.  We had such a good time.  It was nice to get to spend some family time together.  The girls had such fun at the water park.  The park was inside the lodge.  They had several pools, slides, and play areas.  We swam, had dinner, played at the arcade, listened to an entertainer sing, and watched some dancers that evening.  We did not make it to the stroke of midnight however!  On New Year's Day we went to Nebraska Furniture Mart and found a new mattress!  We did not get to bring it home with us, however.  They had it order it.  So, we are expecting it to be delivered on the 19th.  We just got a bed frame for it.  We are going to try to get new bedroom furninture-----if and when we get a new house.

It snowed again on Saturday evening.  Saturday the therma-coupler went out on our heating stove.  Wouldn't you know it!  Seems like we have to replace that thing two or three times a season.  And we did not have a spare one on hand, which we usually do.  So Joe had to go to Pittsburg on Sunday morning and see he could get another one.  The roads were pretty bad, so we did not even try to make it to church.  He got home and got it fixed with no problem, thankfully.  Sunday was a pretty lazy day.  And it was back to work on Monday. When is spring break?  :o)