The New Year is here along with the freezing rain!! We woke up to tiny little icicles on everything!! It's pretty but cold! The girls (all 3) are in school and Melissa is getting back to normal and loving it!! Gracie is right up with her class and especially glad for recess and P.E. She really missed the social aspect of school. Jane is just plugging along--the district thought they would have to cancel school because of the "freezing rain" and when we found out school was NOT cancelled Jane yells, "Hooray!! I did not want to miss school!!" We wish we could bottle her enthusiasm for school and sell it, we'd be millionaires! Jessica loves her friends at school but it is no longer "cool" to love school. She has her nose in a book constantly and even got caught in Math class with it on her lap reading and not paying attention to the lesson. As long as she can balance a check book, she can read all she wants!! (don't tell her that, we had a very serious talk about the importance of all subjects and the respect you should show your teachers by listening and she is now not allowed to take books to school)

We have also been looking for swimming suits to go on the Disney Cruise in February. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is sending us on the cruise and there are no swimsuits to be found and everyone has grown out of their swimsuits from last year. Rod actually shrank out of his but that's a whole other topic. We finally find one for Grace and the total with the suit and cover-up is over $70 so we go over to Target and Rod tells Grace if she can find one here she can have any one she wants--Well, famous last words as Gracie finds an itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini--she proceeds to try it on and runs out of the dressing room to Rod shaking her booty and saying, "OOOOH!! The boys will think I'm sexy!!" Rod will probably qualify everything he says from now on!! Jessica and Jane and even Melissa found a swimming suit! Who knew they had suck-um in and push-um up swimsuits!!! Sweet!

Have a frosty and fun day!