LEAP!

I've been MIA this month from the blog.  Maybe you've noticed, maybe you haven't.  But, as things go, I've been doing other things, and planning other things one of which is a new blog.

Yep.

I love bells on their toes, and will probably keep it up as a family journal of sorts, but I might take it private and it's just not what it was back in the day when I started.  It's time for a switch up.

The new thing is not up yet, because I have to get it organized and whatnot.  But in a week or so hopefully I can post a link here and you can {leap} on over.

In the meantime Happy Leap Day.  Enjoy the extra day the year is giving you.  Maybe read a book while catching up on your laundry or something.

Cheers!

P.S.  I love that picture.  I have no idea where it's from.

8:50 on a Monday morning

and January is almost over.  Two more days.

Which is crazy.

But awesome.

Why?

Because I keep getting tax forms in the mail.

And I actually really get a kick out of doing my taxes.

Everyday when I hear the mailman stick something into our mail box I run down the stairs and check to see if there is another tax form in there, and then I can stick it in my tax folder and cross it off my list.

Does this make me odd?

That's okay.  I don't mind.

the debate...

The first day back at school after a (too) long weekend.

Half of my kids are not feeling well.

Well. Of course.  One is legit, but she doesn't go to school.  Trying to figure out who is sick enough to stay home, or well enough to go to school and slog through it.

Generally, mostly a no-brainer.  But a particular child has a penchant for exaggerating symptoms of illness.
She is prone to a psychosomatic empathetic response when others have been ill.

So.

We're waiting.

I don't send truly sick kids to school.  But I don't keep truly well kids home, either.

Lovely time of year, this.