Rockhounding

We tried a new sport this holiday vacation.
It involved a whole lot of mud,  a false start at the wrong location 😏, but we did come home with a few pseudomorphs that we are darn proud of!

Christmas Eve. The boys unwrapped their box from nanamama - complete with treats, pjs, and books.

Snacks for Santa and his reindeer

Christmas morning

 Traditional scratch-off time.
No big winners this year.

My once a year puzzle, since it dominates the only horizontal space we have - also known as our dining room table. 

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Happy New Year!

Wishing you the very best year.

December??

In the classroom we talk about "heavy work" for those kids who need a little sensory input or require exercise for those busy bodies. I thought of this a good number of times today as these little boys of mine lifted and carted the heaviest rocks they could to build cairns. They were obsessed with "stabilizing" the towers, and insistent that big rocks were the only way to go.

All was well until one little piggy got pinched between two of those large rocks. A brave boy, there were no tears shed and he endured a mile long hike back to the car before we fished out the icepack.

All and all it was a good day off.

Xmas Tree Hunting 2016

Our tree before his? her? relocation to our living room. It didn't look too big out in the wild.

Another trip into the woods with good friends, and another year without snow. These kids kill me, the speed at which they grow and change, yet some things remain the same. The kids flock to the piles of rocks and find the very best hiding trees, they run wild, as children should, and the youngest in our family would not cooperate for a family pic (go figure!).

Happy winter!