We are in our final days of winter break. 

Saturday included a birthday party and a long over-due sleepover for Gwyneth and Ella. These girls miss each other terribly since Gwyneth moved schools. Ella and her family are so lovely and her mom is wonderful about making sure these sweet, yet ridiculously silly, girls still have their time together. 

Sunday afternoon we went to see Adams Family “Alive” at the Boulder Dinner Theater. We had an extra ticket (usually it’s just the girls and I) and surprisingly, B decided to join us. It’s not a surprise that he wanted to have some family time or go to the theater, he is always eager to do both. It just so happens the show was the same time as the Bronco game. Now, that is a family man! We enjoyed the show very much and we made it home just in time for the 2nd half of the game. Good times all around. 

Always ready for a show: 

Celebrating the last day of winter break with kiddie cocktails:

I was feeling sad about the girls heading back to school tomorrow. The break seemed to fly by too quickly. I didn’t get enough reading time with them, movies, games, snuggles. There wasn’t enough family time. 

I was feeling a bit ungrateful and then they started to bicker. Really bicker. “Annnnnabelllllle”. This is what our dear Gwyneth howls when she is frustrated with her sister, when she is tired, when she is just plain fed up. 

Annabelle can be a a bit more discreet.  She may slink off to her room, leave the scene of the crime. Gwyneth is more vocal. (This is ever changing; this is just how they bicker these days). They usually play nicely together, they share most everything, but when we hear “Annnnnabelllllle”, we know we’ve hit the wall. 

Breaks over. Someone out there knew this was the perfect time for them to go back to school and that my heart wouldn’t break. I tucked them in and finished a book that I have been working on for weeks and braced myself for that early morning alarm clock. 

Of course I should have gone to bed but I was committed to finish reading this book. It’s been a slow read but a good one: 

I love a good apocalypse story. I’m a scaredy-cat about so much, but enjoy reading about the end of civilization. Huh? This was good, not particularly great, but I was intrigued. The characters were interesting and it was very well written. It stayed with me for days after so perhaps it was even better than my original impression.