January's Sand Castles

After my pep talk to myself in "Winter's Fight", I decided to put my resolve to the test and venture out into the cold again.  My oldest son was begging me for some playtime outside, and we discovered there is fun to be had in 5 degrees after all.

It didn't hurt that the sun was out because, cold or no cold, I'm a sucker for the sun.

Besides that, I'm now 6 posts in and I haven't added a single pictures of my cuties.  What a waste of having my own mom blog :)

For the day, I wondered if I mislabeled Winter as stingy.  My husband thinks I neurotically either hate or love things, no mediocre emotions in between.  There must be truth to what he says, because, for a few tender moments yesterday, I thought I might love Winter.  

 

 

 

 

(affectionately called sand castles by my boys.  made with flower pots still sitting in my yard )

 

 

After trying out snow angels and snowballs C, my creative builder, decided to take our nicely stacked wood pile and turn it into a fort.  I vacillated between creative mom and controlling mom.  I'm thankful creative won out on this one: