Wow! Welcome to 2020! We have flying cars and hover boards, our telephones are transplanted in our ears, and we only eat shakes called HUEL to get all the nutrients we need. We don't even have to cook anymore! Okay, So not that much has changed from my last post...except that last fact actually is true. Some people are doing that Huel Nutrition...but not me and my family. We like bread too much.
January here in Iowa has been a new adventure, we have had school cancelled because of the weather. Although some of my friends in Utah have had school cancelled as well, which is new to me. I never had a school day growing up, and we had some pretty big snow storms. So it must have been massive. School being cancelled in Iowa is more for the icy roads than the amount of snow. We have had a couple good snow storms, but overall we haven't had much snow. I was really hoping to get out and go sledding with the kids. We will have to see if February will be the sledding month for us.
Here are a few things we did in January 2020.
After one of the snowstorms, we made snow cones from the fresh powder. Camille thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Jason thought it was really fun to make, but didn't love the taste. It typically takes him a really long time to eat cold things. Ice cream cones get messy unless I am there to lick the melting side before it falls (not that I am complaining that I get more ice cream) but he ate some of the snow cone, just not all of it. We had a lemonade Kool-aid packet and used that for our syrup. They turned out pretty good.
I took the kids to the doctor to get check ups and their flu shots. Jason ended up getting 3 shots! He was so sad and he kept complaining about his legs hurting, and I actually think they were hurting him quite a bit. So instead of rushing Camille back to school we skipped school and went on a quick adventure. There was supposed to be a huge storm coming through during the afternoon, so we stopped at Trader Joes that was across the street from the doctors office and picked up a couple of things. I have never really shopped at Trader Joes, but we did get a couple of things to try. We got their yogurt that was super creamy, and some pot stickers. Along with a new type of berry we had never seen, and some pasta sauce. In Trader Joes there were some samples....oh how my kids loved the samples. We only dropped one mashed potato sample on the floor, so I will take that as a win.
After Trader Joes we were going to drop our books off at the library, but since we were skipping school anyway we stopped and had a special lunch that the kids earned by being so brave and getting their shots. It is always fun to occasionally have a lunch out with the kids. Even if it is just McDonalds. The kids really enjoy it. We took this picture and sent it to Kevin. He said that this picture shows exactly the personalities of our family. Camille and I are smiling and happy, Sadie is looking a little mischievous and Jason is working on eating his food. I love all my kids and all of their fun personalities.
One night it rained a ton, and then froze. It was like freezing rain and made everything so slippery. Our whole back porch was an ice skating rink. It was like 6 degrees outside, but the kids wanted to go out and play so bad. I let them go out for 10 minutes, and they had so much fun. They were sliding around the "rink" and Camille kept trying to lick the ice. She was licking the ground and the deck poles. I was just waiting for her tongue to get stuck, but she never did. Camille and Jason took the sled out and went down our little hill in the backyard. Since it was all frozen, they actually went really far with no friction. They loved it and it was fun to watch them.
A couple days after playing outside, Jason got sick. He got RSV. It was pretty scary. We were just watching some shows, and I looked over and Jason was breathing so quickly and very shallow. I was really worried about him. I made him sleep on a little mattress in my bedroom. He threw up 5 times or so, and was just so sick. The next morning we went to the urgent care and got tested for the flu and RSV. He was positive for RSV. He didn't throw up again, but he was so sick. We went home and I cleaned as much as possible so that nobody else would get sick, and he rested and watched shows. I secretly thing Jason loves being sick because I make him sit on the couch and not tough anyone or anything and just watch shows. Watching shows is Jason's very favorite thing to do. It took a couple days but he eventually got better, thank goodness. He is the sweetest boy. I love him so much and I am so glad that he started feeling better in just a couple of days.
The Chick-fil-a in the mall has been giving free food away. I am not exactly sure why, but we went with Lala to the mall and got some free food. I got 3 free chicken sandwiches from the promotion they were doing, then I had a card for free nuggets, and I had a reward from the app for free nuggets. So I got an awesome steal of a deal with all of the free food. After lunch we went to the children's museum. It was a nice day. I feel grateful I have some good friends here now.
Overall January has been long, and we have been sick, but we have had a good month. Just today I was telling Kevin how much I love our kids. They are so sweet, and good, and kind. I hope they always keep these special traits with them. Because not all kids are so kind to each other. Love you all! I can't wait to see what fun things we do this year!
