What's In a Day?

Benton playing "dress up"!

Alea playing in the spider web.
First round of painting.

Going for a plane ride in the stairwell.

So, what DO you DO stuck in the house all day with a one and three year old? Today and tomorrow are supposed to sport the coldest temperatures Des Moines has seen yet this season-boasting down to negative 40! We woke up to negative seven and the day just got colder from there! As Greg so justly put it, it would be warmer to sit in the refrigerator all day than to be outside. With wind chills in the negative twenties and a child who has a contagious staph infection, we just decided to make the best of the day alone and INSIDE.

Let me just start by saying that Alea got herself grounded from the television early this morning. What was I thinking-stuck in the house without TV? Though she and Benton thoroughly enjoy watching “Noggin”, their mama thoroughly enjoys the peace that still/quiet children bring to a household! As hard as it was, I stuck to my guns and did not relent to the pleading of turning the television on the rest of this cold, cold day.

So, after cartoons (early morning), camping in the dark, dress up, stickers, special lunch delivery from Megan, painting, cooking, airplane rides in the stairwell, hot cocoa, more painting, laundry, a life sized spider web, nap (for Benton), reading books, airplane ride on the couch and a bath, the day was anything but boring. I had two happy, clean, rested children and one tired mama. So, what do we do, well we play, play, play, as Alea says.

Let’s do it all again tomorrow! Ahhh, the life of an at home mom, far be the bon-bon’s and days on the couch watching Soaps!