2021: January

This was us in January, in no particular order:

We had remote school until the 25th.

We took the yearly, kid-dreaded, family photos. We are growing too large for this spot on the living room floor.

We sort-of fixed our squeaky shower, after much Googling, YouTube-ing, Amazon shopping, and use of force (mostly Frank's). 

We rearranged our bedroom and switched out our bed. The after photos are coming as soon as we can decide on and purchase a new mattress and/or Ikea has the stuff we want back in stock. And we paint...so in like a year.

Charlotte took excellent care of a new baby doll, including propping it up on a Boppy pillow while she watched baking or minecraft videos on the tablet and ate Cheerios (her usual morning routine).

We cleared a LOT of boxes out of the basement. It was basically an avalanche of them from Christmas and also some big ones we finally decided to get rid of.

I brought the Legos to the living room to encourage playing something other than video games. It worked, and now when the boys are playing out a LOUD epic battle or something I have to remember why I did it.

I shopped at our new Kroger and found new gluten free varieties of some favorite foods.

We got new phones. Frank and I now have Galaxy s21s, and the boys are using our s8s. Zach's is an actual phone now, with texting and taking it to school and scouts and the whole bit. He is always a very appreciative kid, but his thank-yous to us for the phone were seriously the sweetest. Gabe has messaging and video chat abilities with a couple of friends, so he's spent lots of free time on Minecraft and Among Us with them.

We all went snow tubing with the Boy Scout troop on a very blustery winter day. We were cold but having fun. Zach spent the whole time with his friends.

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