Overheard

SOPHIE: If you don't play horsey with me right now, I'm going to cry FOREVER.
GINGER: Forever? Even on your wedding day?
SOPHIE: Yes.
GINGER: And on the day when you get a real horsey?
SOPHIE: Yes.
GINGER: And on the day when we go to Disneyland?
SOPHIE: Yes.

Henry-dude

AKA "Sausage Boy" or "Henricus Rex"

Overheard

SOPHIE: Mom, this is how bad people sometimes sit.
ME: Wait, do it again so I can take a picture with my phone.

I am guessing that the source of this misunderstanding is a certain Beatles movie where the bad guys sometimes sit like that. That is my theory, anyway.

Why I like working from home

Happy Sunday

Andrew is rocking his euphonium competition

> He's playing Hedwig's Theme
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Overheard

ME: When I was taking out the mail today I totally ate it on the ice.
SOPHIE (incredulous): You ATE the MAIL?

We won't be going anywhere today

School is canceled again--third day in a row. Here is Ethan skating uphill on our front lawn, which is covered in four inches of ice.

Here is our driveway. I attempted a trip down the road yesterday--you can see the tire tracks left by our car. Our enormous, heavy car did not sink in at all. How is this stuff going to melt?

When Sophie grows up...

...she wants to be a horse rider, a Hawaiian girl, a cheerleader and an ice skater.

Ice castle

It is 12:42AM. I decided to turn on the computer and post these now, just in case the power goes out in the next 24 hours.

This is the view out the back door, which is frozen shut. (That is ice covering the glass, for all you Californians):



This is our street. It looks like it is covered in snow. That white stuff is not snow; it is ice.

The good news: School is canceled (again)!