New Year, New Goals

I really let keeping up with this blog get away from me. I have a goal of posting at least once a week for this year. We'll see if I can keep up with that! I look at this blog as my journal, of sorts. I was never very good at journalling, but I want to be sure to keep track of all the things going on in our lives. This seems like a good place to do that.

Let's see... things going on since last August. Josh no longer attends the Wed night motorcycle gatherings. I think he was getting a little burned out on the every week attending, and since he doesn't have a cycle of his own felt like he was more of a gopher than anything else toward the end. He and Darren did make a wonderful connection in Bernie, another person who attends the Wed night motorcycle gathering. Bernie has welding equipment at home and has worked with Josh before on just some basic welding. Josh showed him the book he got for his birthday called "Bike, Scooter and Chopper Projects for the Evil Genius" - and the project he wanted to try. Bernie was all for it, so Josh and I trekked off to the metal supply and he bought what was needed to get the project started. He also bought a kids bike at a thrift store. Between these things he has a "souped up tricycle type" bike in our garage that just needs a few more items in order to be finished. All the welding is complete however.

Rylie's fall was consumed by Nutcracker rehearsals. The production took place on Sunday Dec 6. There were two performances. I was backstage at the first one and we all attended the second. This year was special since we were all there. Last year, Papa Mohr went into the hospital the morning of the performances so he didn't get to see it in person. All the hard work was worth it - the shows were wonderful. Each year seems to be better than the year before.

All three kids took part in the SCENE (homeschool co-op classes) this fall. Ellie's choices were Math Games and Ceramics, Josh did basketball and banned book club, and Rylie also joined in the banned book club. We're all looking forward to the classes resuming at the end of January.

A big part of our winter so far has been the snow! Starting Christmas Eve day we got what eventually turned into a blizzard! Over the past 3 weeks we've ended up with over 14" of snow. Sledding in Kansas isn't easy, but the kids managed to build snow hills to sled down in the yard, as well as talk their dad (who was ever so willing) to take them sledding at some nearby hills.

I think that catches us up (somewhat) to this year... and I hope to be more consistent in the future!