February 1
Hey, look at that! Eatin' healthy on the first day of the month. Would be great if this was a trend. I'm not a salad person, but I do enjoy a Blue Coast salad. The chips, though .... I like those, too. Oh well.
February 2
I saw my shadow. You know what that means, don't you? Six more weeks of .... weather.
February 3
Birthday dinner with peeps. I skipped the cake and ice cream this year, just because, although I did get a complimentary dish of ice cream, thank you, Outback. Nobody sang to me. I'm good with that.
Grandson Knox made me a birthday card on Minecraft. Pretty cool.
My great-nephew, Finn, also celebrated his birthday on the 3rd. He enjoyed a pool party at the Y. Can't believe he's 4 already. He and Knox are buddies. My nephew, Alex, also shares this birthdate.
February 4
Target practice. If I fire enough bullets, I will eventually hit the center. Eventually.
February 5
Different day. More rain. Another flood.
February 7
Snow day!
February 7
Ella loves building with her blocks. How 'bout that tower? It was listing to the right and finally submitted to gravity.
February 7
Snow day for Knox means Fortnite either solo or with friends.
February 7
I'd never heard of a Snow Moon until now--first full moon in February. Not quite full until the 8th.
February 8
Slow drip. Icicles are just the coolest.
Let it go!
February 10
And we're back to rain .....
February 13
Kelly and Ella on Snapchat--too cute not to share.
February 13
Hanging with the grand peeps while Kelly and Kerry enjoyed an early Valentine dinner
Shelby loves to read. Ella loves books. I hope one day Ella will be a bookworm, too.
February 14
We enjoyed Knox's 2nd grade Valentine's Day play. They sang songs, told jokes, and read poems. Knox got to read one of the Valentine poems.
A valentine in a bowl--I couldn't believe all the heart-shaped Cheerios in my bowl of cereal this morning and wondered why until I noticed this was a special edition box of Cheerios. They should have these all the time.
Valentine dinner at the golden arches. Of course, Valentine's Day landed on a Friday this year, and more often than not, this is where we end up every Friday night with Kelly, Knox, and Ella. So it was Happy Clog-Your-Arteries-Heart-Day for us.
February 17
What is that big ball of blazing light in the wester sky? Oh yeah. I remember. They call it the Sun. A rare sighting this month.
February 19
She's got the bed head
February 19
I had no idea this is a thing. Did you? Was tempted to check it out .....
February 19
Neil has been working hard on our deck furniture, sanding and painting it all black.
February 19
As I took this pic, I wondered if it would snow on the buttercups this winter .....
February 20
.... was there any doubt? ..... I meant to get an actual pic of it snowing on the buttercups but I totally forgot.
Cardinal couple watching it snow. The squirrels had already dumped all the birdseed on the ground below the feeder.
February 21
Another Friday. Another dinner at MickeyD's. Is this a creepy picture or what? Kelly had Knox's Spiderman lunch bag sitting on top of Ella's diaper bag on their seat. Looks like Spidey is trying to snatch some of Knox's ranch sauce.
February 21
She knows how to chill
February 22
Who needs toys when you've got a pile of rocks to play with?
There's that big ball of blazing light again. Sunshine (almost) on my shoulder. Makes me happy.
February 23
Sunday after worship brunch with Shelby, Holly, Knox, Ella, and Kelly
February 24
February 25
February 25
Elijah got to attend Faze Atlanta. If you're a fan of gamers on You Tube, then you'll know exactly what this is. He got to watch some of his favorites play in a tournament. He was very excited to get to meet some of them and talk to them and have his picture made with them.
February 28
Snow day!
My hubby Neil celebrated his 69th today with a giant chocolate chip cookie cake (not a cake really).
He is the official birthday party punch maker in the family, so yes, he made his own birthday party punch.
Happy 69th!
Party peeps! From left: Jane, Sarah, Julia, Holly, birthday boy, Knox, Ella, Kelly, Shelby, and Don...
...and Elijah (who ended up getting his picture taken anyway, thanks, Jane😉)
February 29
Leap Year Day
This extra day every four years might make up for some of the hours taken away by daylight saving time (next Sunday--boo!!)
What did you do with your extra day?
I cleaned house.
And made this blog post.
Thanks for looking!
+I found this quote (below) that is really neat about leap year+
“Today is an ephemeral ghost...
A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."
In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!
But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...
A day of unlocked potential.
Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you?
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”
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Wings up!
