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Sun, 21 Feb 2010

I've been finding it hard to keep my blog updated lately. I already said because my Sunday morning schedule has changed. I haven't yet found a regular time to write, but I need to.

Anyway, the week of Valentine's day we were pretty busy with holiday related activities. This year was a little different because instead of chocolate (well, there was that also… there were service-related activities. Thomas went with the Primary to sing and give out Valentine's to a nearby long-term care center.

Bryan sold singing Valentine's with the Rising Generation Youth Chorus and then spent two days delivering those. I drove them around the afternoon of the thirteenth. I was very impressed with how good they sounded. They looked pretty sharp also, but I didn't get any good pictures of them.I wish I'd been able to record them because they sounded really good. Hey, I don't sing and am always impressed with musical talent. 

If the intended recipient wasn't home, they did phone calls and left a message on the answering machine. That is what they are doing here.

Then Bryan went out to a Valentine's dance at school. He was on the committee to decorate for it also. 

The other thing that was popular before Valentine's, is that both Melody and Bryan got involved in learning to decorate cakes. They had fun doing it at home and church both. We got a little sick of eating too much cake and frosting around here. 

Marc and I celebrated Valentine's Day by going to a dance. We've been taking a ballroom dance class. In addition to the class, the teachers have an "extra-curricular" dance every two weeks. This is the first one we've attended. It was pretty fun. We now can dance the foxtrot, waltz, rumba, and swing. We need to practice a lot more though. 

We had a little snow, but it is all melted now, in fact, we've had rain this weekend.

We had two days off school before the real snow got here, then the biggest snowy day was for President's Day, which the kids got off school anyway.  We hear about huge snowfalls everywhere else in the country, but we've had a very mild winter. Just today, I heard that Reno got almost a foot, and we know the Eastern Coast has had several feet. We're planning to go to Colorado for Spring Break (if the weather cooperates) so we can see enough snow to actually play in. 

Did I mention that I took a job? I decided that I needed to work a little so as not to have gone to school for nothing. I'm working at a long-term care/rehab facility and liking it a lot. I like the night hours because they don't interfere with anything else. I'm working just two days a week. But I did happen to work the night after we got out snowfall. It was a long drive to work, and pretty busy because not everyone could make it in. 

Also this week, Thomas turned in his research paper and project on the Republic of Georgia. Melody turned in her science fair project (remember the bananas?) and found out that it will be one of the ones to represent the school in the regional contest next weekend. I'd already signed up to help judge at the regional contest so now will have to tell them I can't judge seventh grade. 

Things are staying busy around here and we are all staying out of trouble. Winter is speeding by. We are looking forward to spring break and making summer plans. Call me if you'd like to go camping or backpacking with us…