Interrupting my next planned blog about our second week in Mexico, just to keep up with real life. Most of our free time since returning has been spent trying to get some of our 2000 photos sorted and uploaded to flickr; the first three days of vacation are now in our gallery on the blog or on our flickr site.
We’ve also been slowly recovering from whatever bug we got before we even went to Mexico. This uggh has slowly works it’s way through the family and is definitely taking it’s toll on our energy.
Since we’ve been back most of our classes are still on hold from winter break. D has had gymnastics and both boys have has swim lessons. D also had a gymnastics meet last Saturday. It was a short one, only a few teams. He had fun though.
So few posts since we’ve been home. It has basically been laundry, grocery shopping, a couple of classes and lying around being and recovering from being sick. Check the photos - much more exciting.
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1 Anne Mayo // Jan 11, 2008 at 9:25 am
I was downloading some of the photos I had taken when C and B were up before the holidays and made gingerbread houses. Only one or two good ones, my digital camera is old enough to have the delay between click and take, so I miss the cute look and get the closed eyes, grimace, etc. But it did make me wonder if you remember the gingerbread house that you made with your grandma and grandpa when you were about C’s age. It was made of real gingerbread baked by Grandma and held together by real icing not
graham crackers hot glued like mine. It was very large, probably 2×3 feet and about 2 feet high. You and G & G painstakingly deocrated it complete with shredded wheat for the shingles. It was so wonderful that we kept it out long past Christmas. About Valentine’s Day it was finally acknowledged that it needed to go but no one could bear to part with it so I boxed it up and we put it in the garage. The next Christmas when we took it out we discovered that weavils liked it every bit as much as we had. Tossing it in the garbage can just didn’t seem a fitting end to such a masterpiece so we decided to burn it in the fireplace. We put it in the fireplace with paper and small kindling and set it alight. We underestimated the flammability of dessicated gingerbread and icing and were amazed by the virtual explosion. A literal fireball shot up the chimney and out of the front of the fireplace, of course, the screen was open because you wanted to watch. No harm done but it definitely was an exciting end to that little house.
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