Feb 14

Tuesday evening we watched the deserts and grasslands episode of the Australian documentary. We also baked some heart-shaped cupcakes and mini cakes. And Georgia sat down and read the entire book of Moby Dick in less than three hours! I let her stay up later because she wanted to keep reading. I love that she loves to read!

Wednesday we decorated the cakes. We don't have heart shaped cupcake tins, but we rolled up some tin foil balls and stuck them in behind the cupcake papers to shape the cupcake when it cooked.

The girls went out to explore the effects of the near-blizzard we had. The roads were still closed today, level three still in effect. But the girls had fun climbing the snow mountains.

The snow was either packed tight like ice, or powdery and blowing in the wind. We were not able to make snowmen this time. And we are not able to open the back door because of the pile of snow in front of it.

And the driveway was also pretty full. Yup, that's our driveway behind Olivia...after shoveling numerous times!!


Georgia started reading the Swiss Family Robinson tonight and is over halfway through. I told her I think they made a movie about it, so we will look for that at Netflix.

We are now down to a level two, so Mark will be able to return to work tomorrow. As I write this, our current temperature is five degrees. I wonder how cold the wind chill is?