It's snowing again

I don't know if anyone is going to read this, but I really don't like the snow. We are all doing fine now. For the past 2 weeks we have had a cold in the house. Last week was my turn. It was very hard for me to take a day off from homeschooling on Wednesday but all I could do was just lay there on the couch. Fortunately the kids are a little older than the last time I was really sick about 3 years ago. It would be nice to have someone that could take our kids for just a few hours or a day without having to shell out a small fortune. I do appreciate Starr for taking Hannah when we go out of town, that is so nice. But I guess that we have learned to rely on each other and to take our kids with us most places. Haley made me a sandwich that day that I was really sick. I'm grateful for my 4 beautiful children.


We have an Elders Quorum Valentines Day party that we're going to on Friday. It should be lots of fun. We've lived here for almost 4 years now and have quite a few acquaintances and a couple good friends. That's what you have when you live out in the country! Most people here have family close by that they do things with. We have a couple friends that don't have very much family either. We sometimes do stuff with them.


In fact we went to Oceanside with some friends three weeks ago or so. Oceanside is about 30 miles north of SanDiego. We were right on the beach. It was beautiful and relaxing. We got to see the San Diego Temple, it looks like a castle. We had lots of delicious food but my favorite was the banana nut crunch french toast that I had at a little breakfast place there. I tried replicating it and mine was pretty good but not exactly like theirs.


It's nice to get away occasionally,but it's so expensive to pay a babysitter for 3 days thay we can't do it very often.


We're pretty sure that we're going to California for Easter. My mom is turning 76 this year. I wish that I could have gone for her birthday last year but it was too difficult with the new business and everything. Hopefully, we can do a big Easter party at Dad and Connie's. I totally miss the Easter parties. We had a really big one for Clayton's homecoming and I miss having big get togethers like that with Don and Cathy and Grandpa Guy and Linda. We'll have to go to SanFrancisco or something for my Mom's birthday afterward. Anyway, I guess I've rambled on enough. We'll probably leave on Thurday and come home on Monday if all goes well. O.K. now I"m really done.