Inside Winter

On January 2nd I sent my mom a text with all the things I wanted to accomplish this year, goals that I have, etc. Two things that I have wanted to do are do a "homeschool" activity every Wednesday with my girls and the other I called get out of the house Fridays. I am happy to report that I have been good about doing a weekly activity with the girls. I had originally planned for Wednesdays but in changes of schedules and getting into the workings of the winter semester it quickly became clear that Thursdays were the best day for a fun activity. It usually isn't anything huge, typically something off Pinterest that I can pull together with what I got laying around the house. My other goal of get out of the house Friday we did once and we had a lot of fun that one Friday. We went to the county museum and played in the kids area, we drove thru mcd's, got happy meals, and had an in the car picnic at a local park while looking at the icy lake and talked about where the fish families must be hiding during the cold. It was a really good day. Then we all got sick. An entire week of sick kids and a sick husband and not feeling great myself but having to suck it up because I had a bunch of sickies depending on me. It was bad, Bug ended up in the hospital getting iv fluids, BAD. Then the flu epidemic hit the news and well, I don't feel much like taking my kids out anywhere. We still meet up with friends on Mondays for playgroup but that is typically at one of our houses so not much exposure there but i REALLY just don't want to take them out right now to play with kids I don't know and toys that I don't know when the last time they were cleaned and that's if they have ever been cleaned. So for the time being it's an inside winter and I'm completely ok with that. I may not be hitting one of my goals for the year right now but I would rather have healthy happy kids that only come down with cabin fever rather than kiddos with the flu anyday.