from Tracey G.

Well, to be honest I’ve started to forget what day it is, as we’ve had so many Snow Days in a row, it’s crazy. The kids made it to school one day this week – Mother Nature has been in quite a state!

Today was Day 3 (in a row, but 4th day total this week) of Snow Days due to icy conditions thanks to lots of freezing rain and quickly dropping temps. It’s just cold, snowy and blustery here today, and that made for a day of wanting to just curl up and hibernate in my chair, with coffee and the current book I’m reading! And, that’s exactly what I’ve done, and it’s been glorious!

Some days you just need to be able to indulge in the lazy, and that’s what I’ve done today and relished every minute. Curled up in my chair, drank too much coffee (I know, that’s totally not possible) and finished a fun read I started a few days ago.

It was a good day. A very good day.

from Kris B.

I have a love-hate relationship with Valentine’s Day.  (That sounds terrible funny to me as I type it.)  Anyway, I don’t like all of the commercialism surrounding the holiday, but I do like the idea of celebrating love for the people in our lives that matter most.  Since I don’t teach on Fridays, it often becomes our day of togetherness.  Today became our pseudo Valentines Day celebration.

The dogs actually let us sleep in this morning until 8:30!  That certainly beats our normal alarm at 5:15-5:30. Those extra hours of sleep are a precious gift themselves.  It did mean, however, that we got a late start on our daily intake of coffee!  I spent a few hours drinking coffee and getting a little work done before Weber suggested we go “do something.”

We ended up going to the mall (a rare thing for us) to do a quick errand.  That turned into a stop at the Brighton Store.  Though I am not a big jewelry fan, I do like many of the Brighton styles.  I ended up getting a little something. 🙂  Next stop was the Lego Store.  I am worse than a little kid.  I wanted some of the new series of minifigures from the new Lego movie.  Because we had so many VIP points, I was able to get 25 minifigures free.  (Don’t do the math.  It’s scary; but, I have never redeemed any of the points, so that was my Lego career take of points.)  Of the 25 packages, I got all of the Wizard of Oz figures (Yay!) and only seven duplicates.  I’m missing only three to complete the series.  I am a happy girl.  Yes, simple pleasures.  And lest you think that spending money on Lego might be a waste, I read an article the other day that said that over that past fifteen years, there has been a better return on investment in Lego sets than there has from the stock market. 🙂

This evening, we are going out to dinner with a friend to a nice-ish restaurant.  Then it will be time to come home, put on my warm jammies, and curl up in the recliner to knit the rest of the night away.  It has been a perfect day all the way around.

Tomorrow morning I’ll need to get up and finish the work I started (and then abandoned) today, but that’s OK.  I’m rested and relaxed and in a good place to be productive…

Warm and cozy wishes to all of you!  And, Happy Valentine’s Day a little early.

P.S. I want Tracey to define, in concrete terms, what too much coffee means!!!