Well, we got our snow. About 7 inches of it in fact. Waited till the night of March 1st to arrive, but hey at least we finally got our real snow fall, right? Scott said perhaps my “snowman” day was the necessary prerequisite for the snowfall. But, with all this beautiful, white, fluffy stuff, we also got… a power outage Nice, huh? At around 1:30 am I was giving my daughter a nebulizer treatment for her asthma when the power started flickering.

I am so excited to share some news with you all. After my post on Friday about how much I loved the Seeds Family worship CDs, Michelle from Seeds contacted me. She’s offering all of my readers a 20% discount off of any of their CD’s. I have my very first discount code! How cool is that?! Simply enter the code CIRCUSREADERS09 when purchasing a CD from their site. I plan to buy some more myself!

Kids make good accountability partners. Whether you ask them to be or not. As a SAHM mom, I am with my kids pretty much all day and evening. With the exception of an evening out here or there. And my kids are watching me. They are taking in what I listen to on the radio, how I respond when I am tired, stressed. They are there for it all. I have been impressed and sometimes surprised with how carefully they are listening to the words of the lyrics we listen to.

It’s been a few years since we’ve had a good snow fall here in MD. And by good I mean accumulating enough so that you don’t see the grass poking through the snow. This is the only snowman we were able to scrape together this winter at the circus. Don’t the kids look kind of forlorn?  Seriously, take a closer look at our “snowman.” I am sure my friends up north are rolling on the floor with laughter at our patheticness.

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Scott and I enjoy watching those “thrill drama series” such as 24, Alias, Heroes… I can remember when we would watch Alias, I would often have dreams where I would save the day with my mean back side kick and my “kickn” purple air. Ya, if only… Well this morning I woke up and told Scott I had the strangest dream. In part of it we were going away for our honeymoon only it wasn’t really because we already had the kids and we were staying in this hotel like room underground in my parents yard.

Today a dental hygienist visited my son’s class at preschool. In the car he told me we needed to get him some dental cloth. “Floss?” I asked. “Yes,” he told me, “We gotta get rid of Mr. Black.” pause My son then commented, “I have no idea who Mr. Black is but we gotta get rid of him.” I suggested maybe he was a cavity. “Yea or dead food.” he replied.

I have been going non stop the past several days. Friends over for dinner, going to other friends homes for dinner, attending a party, hosting a surprise party…it has been social function after social function for 5 days straight. I have enjoyed each experience greatly, but I am an introvert and after spending time with people I need time alone to recharge. I have one more event tonight (a MOPS Family Fun Night at our church…being as I am the coordinator, I need to be there and be fun).

Sometimes it takes very little to turn the ordinary into something memorable. If your willing to change things up a bit, you can have fun with really, very little effort. The other day the kids and I baked some cookies for a care package, but we saved some to enjoy with Daddy after dinner. While we don’t have dessert everyday, a chocolate chip cookie after dinner is not all that memorable.

Have you ever been singing along to a song in front of your friends when you learn that the lyrics you thought you knew weren’t quite right? I can remember in high school singing along to Amy Grant’s “Baby Baby” and when she says, “Baby Baby, I’m taken with the notion to love you with the sweetest of devotion” I instead belted out “love you with the sweetest talk of ocean.