On a more positive note, we have
weathered snow storms and power outages this week with lots of
pizzazz. We got so bored that we invented crazy games, like draping
a sheep skin rug over ourselves, almost peeing ourselves laughing at
one another.
Eva, or Tina Turner |
Lukas, or Hagrid from Harry Potter. |
Kai, or Sasquatch |
Me, or, as Kai says, Lady Gaga |
Steve, or Mister Neanderthal |
Before the power went out (for 24
hours), I had started bread dough, which I couldn't bake in an oven
that requires electricity. So Steve and I played around with the
coals in the wood stove and got them to a point where we could put
the bread in our chicken brick and bake it that way. I expected it
to burn to a crisp, but guess what happened?
Dinner, that's what.
The snow storm brought lots and lots of
the white stuff, and the boys went nuts in it. I have very old cross
country skis and boots I hardly ever use, so the boys claimed them
for themselves to practice fancy ski maneuvers with them. I can
hardly believe that these babies of mine fit into my boots. It is
inconceivable.
Steve had plenty of fun playing in the
snow as well. He built a snow fort with the boys, in which Lukas
insisted on spending the night. By himself. When Steve told me
Lukas would spend the night in “The fort”, I thought he meant the
enclosed, moss insulated, windowed, and roofed tree house fort. I
was not happy about the idea, but consented, not wanting to be a
boring old mother who doesn't let her kids do fun stuff. Then I
realized that they were talking about the SNOW fort, and my face
fell. I let him do it. He loved it, of course. Check off another
rite of passage (for him or for me, you ask?).
I took this picture out of the barn in the morning when I fed the goats. I had to wake Luke up in his snow cave - he was so cozy, and fast asleep. Here he is, heading back in for pancakes. |
When the sun finally came out and the
snow started melting, we found ourselves at one of the wild creeks in
our neighbor hood. Do you think kids can get fevers from being held
upside down over a raging creek, for fun?
Sigh. Eva really liked it. Please do
send positive energy and prayers her way tonight, will you? And
maybe some for the PTSD mama, okay?
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