Thoughts on a Thursday morning

Kate is home from school today.  They have 2 days off for Parent Teacher Conferences.  She's happily lounging around doing nothing, Aidan is already napping, and I'm going to blog about whatever pops into my head!

Kate is apparently a "delight to have in class."  Her teacher said she's very cooperative, works really well with others and is a good friend.  She's learning to read up a storm, doing well with math, but still is thrown for a loop on her birthday and phone number.  It's so funny how last year it wasn't a big deal with the birthday but now that they've thrown in the year she was born she's forgetting the rest of it.  She sometimes remembers our phone # but I don't really blame her.  That's why you have a cell phone to store all those numbers right? :-)

Recommended Movie of the week: "Up".  Super cute, great family film.  Even if you don't have kids to watch with you, I highly recommend it.  We've taken to renting $1.00 movies from the redboxes all over town.  We may be behind the times in some areas, but at least we have the redbox.  My favorite feature is that you can peruse the movies online, find one you like, search for a nearby box that has it in, and reserve it.  You walk up, swipe your credit card, and it vends your movie like a bag of chips.  Genius!  No more waiting out in the cold, trying to decide what you want.  I wish I was the guy that had come up with that one!

Speaking of cold.  Brrrr!  I'm more then over this cold spell.  I'm tired of chances of snow, snow, wind chills, Winter storm watches and warnings, blizzards, and ice.  Bring on the heat index and sun.  I wanna go to the pool and the park.  I want to wear shorts and flip flops and plan vacations to the beach that won't happen.  Well I guess I could do that now.

Pretty cool looking tree in the from yard but not to thrilled about the fact that it's stayed like that all week.

Speaking of vacations that won't happen... My husband sent me a lovely text message yesterday that said, "Going to Germany and Italy in March for work."  My response: "I don't think so."  I quickly followed up with "Oh wait... How nice."   The "How nice" is is a reference to one of my favorite jokes.  But seriously how unfair is this?  He's going to be out visiting castles and spending $100.00 for just himself on dinner while I'm here in stupid, cold, Kansas.  Grrrrr.   He'll be gone at least 6 days and maybe longer.  The Germany part is for sure and the Italy part is TBD today I think.  I suppose if I had an extra 2 grand, Kate wasn't in school, Aidan was older,  plus some more moolah to expedite some quickie passport renewals I could live it up shopping for cuckoo clocks too.

Who wants to go here?

I discovered the other day that an old credit card I haven't used in more then 2 years with no balance has all these rewards points on it that you can exchange for all kinds of merchandise for free.  Apparently I have enough to get me a lightweight vacuum among other things.  No more crushed up puffs and cracker crumbs because I'm too lazy to drag out the big boy.

I've been working on an invitation for my niece Ava's 1st birthday coming up next month.  Here's a little owl I worked on yesterday to go on the invite.