Weekend at home

Since we all have Monday off, we usually go to the mountains this weekend but decided that it was just entirely too cold to go this year. We hadn't mentioned the trip to the girls so they didn't know it was a possibility and were quite happy to stay home and enjoy being what Lee and I call "free-range" children all weekend. Saturday night we roasted our hotdogs and marshmallows in the fireplace which thrilled them. And yes that is Bruce the tree still up by the fireplace. Eventually all the Christmas decorations will be replaced with Chinese decorations for the lunar new year.
Today the forecast started looking a little iffy in our area and by 7:00 pm school had been cancelled for Lee and Margaret Rose. We decided to leave Mary Clare at home with them tomorrow and we told MR to go and tell her. We just had to laugh when we heard Margaret Rose shout, "Mary Clare! We don't have to go to school anymore!" The girls both thought I was going to work this morning but our district (about 45 minutes south of here) cancelled classes around 10:30 so our 3 day family weekend just became 4.

We had so much fun Saturday that we made pizza and ate in the den again on Sunday.