February 2, 2026

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  • For a Monday morning school day, things went very smoothly around here. I tried to sneak out of bed at 7, but Maryley heard me so she was soon joining us in our bed. She did pretty well, but she doesn't usually get to start in our bed for too long because she gets a little wild, and I take that as my cue to start my day. 
  • Since Laynie had spend the night, I didn't expect that Campbell would be awake and doing school this morning, but before too long this morning she came in with her pile of books that she had completed.
  • Campbell and Graham had to go to work so when they left, Robby took Laynie home, and then he ran some errands. That just left Whitman, Keaton, and I home. Whitman still had school to do so after lunch he got started on that. 
  • He is doing a new little logic curriculum which is based on a chocolate factory, so today it had him making different types of chocolate. Keaton enjoyed helping us taste test the 5 types. We also spent a good deal of time trying to do a "hot ice" science project-it was a flop though.
  • Robby came home after Campbell and Graham, and he had super with him. We all stood around the bar eating Mexican. Then we moved to the table and played Whitman's game. Campbell made corn flake cookies, and then we all settled in to watch a few tv shows.  

February 1, 2026

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  • I think that we might could get used to just going to church at 11. It was kind of nice; however, we did feel like we were just stalling most of the morning long because poor Marley was exhausted by the time that we did finally put her to bed when we left.
  • Church was surprisingly not to empty on this day 9 of snow and ice. I can still count this as a snow day since the kids went sledding tonight and we are still walking on ice to take the dogs out. Plus there was even ice that we drove over this afternoon. Schools here will have their 6th snow day tomorrow while we are doing school once again. Laynie is over spending the night with Campbell, but that just means that Campbell has to do her school later this week.
  • We ate Sunday lunch at Nonna and Pops' house. I think that Pops really wanted it to be summer time so he even grilled hamburgers on the deck. We all ate and then visited. The kids played outside, and it must have been a lot slippery-er on the way to the car than it was when we got there because by the time we made it to the car, two kids had fallen. Good thing that are all young and tough because they just bounced up while we would have broken a hip.
  • This afternoon Robby and I ran some errands plus I had some time to buy some things to send to Arkadelphia and things for Campbell's party coming up next week. I had fun and quickly filled a buggy, though Robby was pleased that we made more than I spent so it was a win.
  • We had Sunday night supper here tonight-we had meatball subs which the Wilson's had never eaten before. They were no Subway meatball subs, but they were pretty good. Plus Robby made his cookies again, and he is getting pretty close to matching Shannon's cookies.