Sarah had her last day interning in the special needs Kindergarten class this week.  She loved those sweet little kids and they loved her!  She made them each a rubber band bracelet in farewell and they made her a crown and a giant thank-you card.  It was a sweet experience for her.  She also worked a few days this week and worked hard writing the essays for her Sterling Scholar application when she was home.  She did manage to squeeze in some play, too, and planned a game night at our house Saturday night with girls and boys.  Megan was one of them!  They had a great time!

Megan worked a couple of days this week, too and went to a friend's house Friday night to watch a movie.  She had a test four out of five days this week and spent copious amounts of time studying, but also managed to finish the trilogy she and I found and love: Shadow and Bone.  I still need to read the second book!  She's a reader that girl!

Mariah had games three days this week!  She loved it especially since every practice day would be followed by a game day so their coaches couldn't run them until they dropped at any of the practices this week!  Mariah continues to play great and I was at the game Saturday when she swished a 3-pointer just for me!

Cali and Chey played in their first Springville Rec games this week on Monday and Wednesday.  They have a good little team and their dad again as coach.  They won both games and played great.  They also resumed piano lessons this week and are doing really well there, too.  They had mixed feelings about going back to school.  I think they accept it as a necessary evil and made the best of it.

Bethany was excited to go back to school!  She got to see her teachers again and her friends.  They mixed the kids up differently between the red and blue classes because the teachers decided that all the talkers were in one class and needed to be spread out!  Beth's class is much quieter now and she likes that.  She also got to go back to dance class this week and she loved that!

Benjamin was also excited to go back to school!  He definitely missed it, which is good since he wasn't sure he liked it before!  His friends have been a little scarce after school, but his sisters have been good to include him in their play.  Today he got into bed with me this morning as I tried to sleep in,  He insisted the night had been "too long" and then proceeded to ask me for a "live animal" like his sisters had gotten for their birthdays.  He wanted one, too.  I asked him what he wanted and he came up with a monkey, a bear, or a dolphin, before I decided maybe I ought to give him some more realistic options.  Fortunately for me, he is now sold on the idea of getting a pet snail when spring comes again!  This will be much easier than the tube he said he could put around the tree in my bedroom to keep his monkey.

Kevin is busy with basketball games both as coach and as spectator.  He has gone for runs on our treadmill and is working on a new website he's hoping to launch in February.

I worked some more hours for my little accounting job.  I also wrote some articles and launched my new blog "On Parenting" at parentingsunshine.blogspot.com.  Now I just need to get about 50,000 followers!  That doesn't even sound possible . . . but ya gotta start somewhere, right?