that we would have several days at home without work or school this week after all of our Christmas travel. It has been a relaxing week around here working on a couple of projects and spending time together – generally catching our breath before it all starts again.
On New Year’s Day, went to a family game place and played video games and drove go-carts. It was Hannah’s first time solo and she was a bit wide eyed at first but her determination was clear that she was going to do this by herself. Ellie rode with Daddy, of course, and was tickled that they got the Home Depot car since orange is her favorite color.
Another day we went to see Bedtime Stories. It was a great movie with all the humor and good storytelling that is synonymous with Adam Sandler these days. I laughed out loud many times. Ellie is growing up…normally she would have been on my lap the entire movie. This time she started out on Ryan’s lap due to the logistics of the popcorn and stayed the entire movie. Daddy is the guy these days with the fun of going to the movies, go carting, and the tickle-fests in the evenings. Mom seems to be the, “brush your teeth,” and, ” I said no fighting,” voice in their ears.
Ryan is heading back to work this afternoon so we are officially ending our hiatus, but it has been a great couple of weeks and we can definitely enter 2009 with our batteries charged.