7QTs - Icy Days and Other Happenings

Now that I just wasted 140 minutes on the phone with obamacare.gov about my 1095-A tax form and NO, I cannot get someone from Blue Cross on the phone to conference in because it is 9:45 at night! Anyways, anyways... Here's what's been happening...

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E has been begging to go to swim lessons so I finally got my act together and signed them up...

They are private lessons because the cost was nearly the same and I got to pick the dates. Which has been good and bad because we've only had two of the four lessons so maybe group lessons will be in order. 

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M has gotten in on the ballet performance action...

They are so cute!

And they practice all their moves and put on quite a show!

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Hmmm... What else. E has been bugging me to help her with this: 

Teaching a child to cross stitch - when they don't understand reading the pattern - is not for the faint of heart. She gets the making the Xs but actually reading the pattern to determine where the Xs go is a totally other story. She is bound and determined though!

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Oh and then it snowed and mainly iced the Friday before last. Which was a bummer because if it had been snow then it would have been loads of fun but then it was more like... oh the lights are flickering... I think we will fill up the bath tub because the well pump won't work. Oh, Lee don't you want to start a fire in case the power goes out and then you won't have to start it in the middle of the night (that'd be a no). So I hunkered down with my candle on the table and hoped for the best (but then ours didn't go out - but a number of people's power did so we were fortunate).

I was trying so hard to avoid going outside because it was mostly gross and ice plus for every minute they are outside it probably took at least 3 minutes of prep work to get them dressed to go out. BUT I gave in...

No sledding like last year so making do with the circumstances


We have the best-est neighbors ever!

Pretty snow!

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Enough with all the girls... 

This boy... I kinda really like him. Though I am nearly convinced he has some sort of colic or something because I think he digested only half of what he consumes. 

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We could resist taking pics with little brother! 

Mom, what is going on?


She's totally flopped me over!


Yeah, I'm at least half her size and a seventh her age!

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Let's see its Catholic School Week and I've got a post cooking for that. 

I need to post about last week and I also want to post about our trip to Charleston so...  I have high hopes that there will be at least another post this week.