The end of last week was miserable.
Considering the high for about 4 consecutive days was at most 8 degrees, we did nothing but stay inside and try and manage by being creative. It gets old though after 4 days of being "creative!" Ironically, it was sunny and bright pretty much all of those brutally cold days and yet literally painful to be outside. Such a tease.
Thank goodness for baking and Nene's mixer that she got for the little girlies for Christmas. Maddie's cookbooks have come in quite handy, as has the mixer. Both Maddie and Faith are able to use it, and they love it. They baked so much last week: peanut butter and jelly cookies, cranberry streusel muffins, a cake, peanut butter Hershey kiss cookies, and banana bread. That kills quite a bit of time, and they love it.
I hate though not being able to get them outside. Not only for their sanity, but for mine as well! I am not one to stay cooped up inside all day, and it drives me absolutely crazy. Luckily, it feels like we've had a "warm front." By "warm front" I mean roughly 25 degrees or so. Just in time too since Dan had a ridiculously long hold-over required due to a lovely protest. But, it feels really nice finally and not brutally cold to the point that we can't even stand to be outside for over a minute. It snowed a little yesterday so they were out snow tubing for about an hour. They just love that snow tube. And, it snowed out of the blue today and it was the most we've gotten all year, about 2-3 inches or so. They loved it! We were out snow tubing this morning, and then again in the afternoon after the heavier snow started falling. We were able to last nearly 2 hours the second time, which was wonderful.
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