- Once again I think that I could count today as a snow day. Kids went back to school today here in town, but there was still ice on the driveway, and I'm still taking the dogs to potty on the snow. This afternoon a delivery man came (we had only had one other one in over a week), and I went out the garage so he didn't have to walk that far...except I wasn't any help because the driveway was icy, and I sure wasn't about to walk out to him.
- We did the school thing this morning. For some reason, Whitman seemed to finish his work pretty quickly. He did ask to do his morning work with me at 11 so maybe that changed things for him; however, that made my morning all different. We managed to get everything finished though by the end of the day.
- Graham and Whitman got hair cuts to day. Neither one of them like getting their hair cut-Graham doesn't like how his hair looks after a hair cut, and Whitman doesn't like chit chatting with the hair person. And neither one of them liked me running in to Hobby Lobby on the way home. I was only in there for just a few minutes, so life wasn't that horrible for them.
- Once we made it home, I started opening my packages that had arrived. Lots and lots of school books for next year which made me so, so happy. I've had to rearrange bookshelves to prepare for all of my orders. My bookshelves are all nice and neat, but the rest of my school room closet is a little messy.
- I made a mexican dish for supper-I kind of winged it since it was just the girls and I eating. They both said that it was decent, and I will enjoy eating the leftovers tomorrow night after church. Keaton them made some type of peanut butter oat balls-I'm not sure if those are dessert tonight or her breakfast in the morning!
February 3, 2026
February 2, 2026
- For a Monday morning school day, things went very smoothly around here. I tried to sneak out of bed at 7, but Maryley heard me so she was soon joining us in our bed. She did pretty well, but she doesn't usually get to start in our bed for too long because she gets a little wild, and I take that as my cue to start my day.
- Since Laynie had spend the night, I didn't expect that Campbell would be awake and doing school this morning, but before too long this morning she came in with her pile of books that she had completed.
- Campbell and Graham had to go to work so when they left, Robby took Laynie home, and then he ran some errands. That just left Whitman, Keaton, and I home. Whitman still had school to do so after lunch he got started on that.
- He is doing a new little logic curriculum which is based on a chocolate factory, so today it had him making different types of chocolate. Keaton enjoyed helping us taste test the 5 types. We also spent a good deal of time trying to do a "hot ice" science project-it was a flop though.
- Robby came home after Campbell and Graham, and he had super with him. We all stood around the bar eating Mexican. Then we moved to the table and played Whitman's game. Campbell made corn flake cookies, and then we all settled in to watch a few tv shows.
February 1, 2026
- I think that we might could get used to just going to church at 11. It was kind of nice; however, we did feel like we were just stalling most of the morning long because poor Marley was exhausted by the time that we did finally put her to bed when we left.
- Church was surprisingly not to empty on this day 9 of snow and ice. I can still count this as a snow day since the kids went sledding tonight and we are still walking on ice to take the dogs out. Plus there was even ice that we drove over this afternoon. Schools here will have their 6th snow day tomorrow while we are doing school once again. Laynie is over spending the night with Campbell, but that just means that Campbell has to do her school later this week.
- We ate Sunday lunch at Nonna and Pops' house. I think that Pops really wanted it to be summer time so he even grilled hamburgers on the deck. We all ate and then visited. The kids played outside, and it must have been a lot slippery-er on the way to the car than it was when we got there because by the time we made it to the car, two kids had fallen. Good thing that are all young and tough because they just bounced up while we would have broken a hip.
- This afternoon Robby and I ran some errands plus I had some time to buy some things to send to Arkadelphia and things for Campbell's party coming up next week. I had fun and quickly filled a buggy, though Robby was pleased that we made more than I spent so it was a win.
- We had Sunday night supper here tonight-we had meatball subs which the Wilson's had never eaten before. They were no Subway meatball subs, but they were pretty good. Plus Robby made his cookies again, and he is getting pretty close to matching Shannon's cookies.
January 31, 2026
- I guess that you could say that today is officially snow day number 8. There was even some sledding that happened today by Campbell and Whitman, but the picture that I'm posting is not real (it looks like Campbell is 10 feet in the air on her sled.)
- Keaton had a Valentine's party early this morning so Robby took her there. Campbell decided the other day that we are also going to have a Valentine's party here in a few days. Keaton and all the girls wore little dresses today even though it was 10 degrees outside this morning!
- While she was at the party, Robby ran some errands, and I was on dog duty. When Keaton came home from the party, Robby and I left to do a bit of shopping.We did plenty of shopping for other people, but I didn't buy anything that I needed-there's always tomorrow though.
- We made it home with 2 of the kids' free ChickFilA sandwiches. That was their meals, but I also made ravioli for the rest of us. We watched the Hogs game during our supper. Now we are looking forward to having a little bit of extra time before church tomorrow, and probably tomorrow will be our last snow day!
January 30, 2026
- It was an odd day for me because I did keep thinking that today was Saturday for most of the day. The first thing that I really started on this morning, after Marley went down for her nap, was making lemon poppyseed muffins from my new cookbook. They were actually really good, but they were a lot of work-there is probably a lemon poppyseed muffin package that would have been a lot quicker for sure though they probably would not have been as good.
- Robby left pretty early, and even swung by a place and bought a car. He didn't think that he was going to buy a car today, but I knew he would. He didn't have any luck with his people in NWA really, so he talked to an old buddy who now sells cars. They were able to get him into a car for a price that he could stomach having payments at.
- This is our first new car in quite a few years, and certainly our first car payments in a while. This new car will mainly be the kid car, but right now Robby thinks that I will drive it when they are not. Campbell has big plans for driving the new car around as well as Keaton. Graham isn't so sure about it and said that he still wishes the suburban was working. He is still thankful that he has a car that works though.
- Robby and I took Campbell and Graham to work today. While they were there, we ran a few errands before picking up the minivan, picking up Keaton, picking up Graham and Campbell. Then Robby took the girls to babysit while I brought Graham home.
- Babysitting was just enough time that Robby didn't know weather to come home or stay out so he decided to stay out. That left me at home with Graham, Whitman, and the dogs. I did talk to Graham for a good while plus I saw Whitman occasionally, but really, it was just the dogs and I.
- I've been home for about 2 and half hours and have taken Marley out, taken Bentley out, taken both of them out, taken both of them out, taken Marley out, taken Bentley out, taken Marley out, and taken Marley out again-I KID YOU NOT! If we need to, Robby can confirm this statement with our doorbell footage.
- ....It is now after midnight, and I pulled out my computer to do some school planning and saw that I never finished this post. I probably didn't finish because I got distracted with taking a dog outside to potty. Actually, since Marley didn't have an accident today, I will count it as a win.
- Campbell and Keaton ended up babysitting until after 10. Robby took the long way home instead of the back way since he wasn't sure about the roads. Then everyone was in the kitchen talking for a while before any of us went to bed. Keaton isn't even in bed yet because she is painting a banner for tomorrow.
January 29, 2026
- Snow day 6 possibly. Campbell and Keaton usually have Mother's Day Out on Thursdays, so they have already finished their school work finished for the week. That just left Graham and Whitman doing their school today.
- I am glad that they had to do work today because I have had to keep reminding myself that today is Thursday. I've done quite a bit today, so I'm not really sure what I will do tomorrow. Now please don't misunderstand; there is plenty of things that I don't want to do that I could do (like clean the bathrooms).
- Whitman did his school work today, and he continues to finish things...and then I continue to add things! Though I think I'm adding fun-ish things, but he may not think that.
- Robby left the house today to run a few errands...and he barely made it home. He was driving the suburban because he certainly still needed its 4 wheel drive. He got to Grannymom's house to drop off her supper, but by the time he got there, the suburban had already stalled on him and was making a horrible noise.
- Grannymom and I prayed him all the way home. The kids were all looking out the windows to watch the last time they would be driving that suburban. The best he can tell, using the 4 wheel drive of the suburban probably made whatever happened happen sooner. Either way, it was going to happen, and we are glad that it happened with Robby driving it and not Graham driving it to Arkadelphia next weekend.
- The Suburban has over 404,000 miles on it. I'm not sure exactly how many miles it had on it when we got it. I do remember praying around 380k that we could make it to 400k, so we are thankful for those extra few thousand miles. Though we are now in a little bit of a pickle until that is replaced, but we will make it work.
- Robby had supper with him so the kids ate plus he had groceries. He did forget he regular butter, but he did remember the extra special butter. We used this butter tonight to try to replicate Shannon's cookies. We did decide that we need to up our oven temperature and lower the rack, but Graham did say that they were "pretty good" so we will take that as a win.
January 28, 2026
- Snow Day 5 and really, I am still loving it! Whitman had mentioned last night that he might want to sled in the morning when things were still frozen, so I had told him that he could. However, when I woke him up, he wasn't actually that ready to go out into the cold.
- Instead we did our reading as normal this morning, and school day went on as usual. It was a fairly quiet morning. I couldn't get my schedule right though-there are some things I can do when Marley is awake, and there are other things that work best for me to do when she is asleep. Today, I always seemed to be doing the opposite.
- Keaton convinced me to make muffins this morning. When I say "make muffins" I am just referring to the ones in the package. Unfortunately, we only had one package. I tried to quickly think if I had an easy and quick muffin recipe, but I really didn't have time for that so package muffins it was-each person could have 1 and a half.
- Whitman went outside some this afternoon, and we didn't really finish his school until after 4. Robby and I ventured out tonight to pick up ChickFilA sandwiches for everyone. Lawson is fine, but all of the other roads are not fine at all. Robby had told the girls that they could babysit Friday night (with him taking them), but he wasn't too sure when we made it home.
- Keaton did manage to get a friend to come over and spend the night tonight. They have just made brownies so that will be a nice treat!
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