Little things…January’s blessings

Sometimes the month of January is an unmemorable blur at our house-a month that quickly passes without much fanfare.  It is recovery time from the busy preparations and celebrations of Christmas, and a hibernation period from cold and stormy weather. It is when I prefer to be inside where it is warm and toasty and not so much outside where it is freezing and cold.

It’s also a time for promised changes and resolutions, yet none that are really happening for me yet.  (I really should get started!)

I always think I’ll do some cleaning and organizing projects during January, but don’t usually get too much accomplished before the month is over.

This year we all got hit with an after holiday flu bug, too.

Blah…..blah…..blah….

Despite the usual January doldrums, we have a few great blessings to add to our memory banks.

♥Sweet baby Naomi arrived safe and sound to her parents Heidi

and Ovidiu and big brother Paul.  We just LOVE her!  Isn’t she sweet?

 

(Heidi, Paul, and Naomi)

Ovidiu, Paul, Heidi, and Naomi

♥She shares a birthday with her uncle Andrew!  Happy Birthday,

Andrew!  We had a nice birthday dinner to celebrate.  Too bad that Naomi and her family were in Oregon and not here with us!

We can’t wait for our two new babies to meet each other.

Andrew and Evan

♥We completed two more of our City Connect Passes.  We hung

out with dinosaurs at the museum at Thanksgiving Pointe in Lehi, and we had fun exploring science at the Leonardo Museum down town.  Those Connect passes were worth every penny we paid for them because of the many outings we had together.

Dinosaur Museum:

Robbie, Aubrey, Brittany, and Karl

Robbie, Brooklyn, Ken, Zachary, Karl, Aubrey, Irene, Olivia

Maddie, Joshua, and Brooklyn

Zachary and Liz

Robbie, Katie, Maddie, and Zachary

Michelle, Olivia, and Joshua

Zachary and Aubrey

Zachary, Maddison, and T-Rex?

The Leonardo:

Ken especially liked the Tardis.

Olivia and me

Maddie, Joshua, Brooklyn, Olivia

 

Ken, Zachary, Joshua, Andrew, Robbie, Brittany

Irene, Joshua, and Brooklyn

♥We’ve entertained some overnight guests in the “after” version

of this room.  I like the improvements much better! 

Before:

After: 

♥The new floors have made the basement a great place for the

grandkids to play. 

♥School report cards are FINISHED and tomorrow is a holiday.

It was a lot of work getting a few of my students ready!

AND…

There is still enough time left in the month for me to add a few more memories.

Maybe January isn’t so bad after all!

Do you LOVE or HATE January?

JoAnn