family night

Our first family night was a success.  Every Fall when the business of school and extra curricular activities are upon us, we try to schedule one evening a week that is a family night.  It can't be on a weekend either, that doesn't count.  It took us a few weeks to start this year but finally this week we scheduled our first Thursday night.  That means from the time kids get home from school until they go to bed there is no tv, computers or anything like that, we have a special dinner in our dining room and spend time playing games, talking and stuff.  Tonight we played Uno, kids sequence and finished off by dancing to some good old 80s.  It was a great night with my family and just what I needed after an emotionally draining day.

First the school got cancelled because of a winter storm which would have been fine but it left me home with 8 children, one of them a 7 month old baby who won't sleep and clings to me the entire day.  The bad part was that we lost power right away and it didn't come back on until after we were done with lunch.  So no water, no heating up anything, just all the kids going crazy for a while. :)  It went fine though, I know the hardest part was that little baby because if she wasn't here it would have been fine and we would be able to play bunch of games etc., but since I have to carry her around with me or try to entertain her on the floor it didn't go as smoothly.  I did try to leave her to play by herself or even by her brother and other kids who are eager to play with her but as soon as she realizes I'm gone she starts her awful screaming and pretty soon all the kids run away from her just to get away from the noise.  So, today was one of those days I couldn't wait for the day to be done so I can have my house to just me and my family.  And it was peaceful, happy and perfect.  Just the way it's supposed to be.  One blessed evening, one blessed mom.

what we woke up to - our first snow

they had a lot of fun and came inside soaking wet