The Middle of January

January always seems to last for awhile.  Mid-January could be it's very own month on my emotional calendar.  It is mid-month and I haven't left as much of a record of our activities as I usually do.

Our computer has been going to work with D during the day so I only have the few hours after the kids are in bed to do all my free time things.  Things on the computer sometimes get knocked down on the list of priorities. 

J walks home from school with the neighbor kids these days and he's in the chess club on Wednesdays after school.  (I know--I'm asking the same question.  When was he old enough to do these things?)

A is just as motherly as ever.  She has adopted the Cabbage Patch kids from my childhood.  Today during quiet time in the afternoon the boys were watching Star Wars while I fold laundry.  She got off the couch and whispered in my ear:  "I'm going upstairs to take care of my babies."  And with that she exited.

We can't get enough of Angry Birds.  I'm serious I thought our home would be the last home in Virginia to have an IPad/ITouch/IPhone, but D's work provided this clever little thing and so it sometimes gets recruited for family entertainment.

And yet this vintage Fisher Price train that my mom found on Ebay moves around the house as E uses it for transporting various commodities from one room to the next.  Sometimes carrots.  Sometimes AA batteries.  Sometimes plastic circus animals.  Everyday he puts it to work.

January is a cold month, but the birds are returning to the trees all around us.  The variety of birdsongs are evidence that it won't be winter forever, so I'm savoring all-things-winter until spring is sprung.  

Tell me this:  which winter things do you enjoy savoring?  

I'll post my list before the winter trudges out of Virginia.  I've got awhile, I think.