Sunshine deprivation . . .

Okay, so this is day 74 without seeing the sun.  Well, maybe not quite 74, but it feels like it.  It's 19 degrees as I type, it's lightly snowing, and the boys are out chopping wood.  Tis the season . . .

Busy week, this was.  Ez had yet another Mathcounts competition and got first place.  He's 3 for 3.  Not bad.
Then Ez and Judah had a swim meet and did really well.  They both made a state time and cut time in most events.  The bonus:  it was the annual candy cane meet, in which, if you get first in your heat, you get a candy cane.  Judah got two and Ez got one.  Not a bonus:  they tasted terrible.  They weren't your traditional, and might I add - normally flavored peppermint, but some lab-induced, sugar-laden, chemically-colored, frankenfood.  Yuck.  
And also this week, basketball has started up with a vengeance.  Noah's had two-a-days and he's just not used to it.  Ez and Judah have been swimming two days a week at 5am for a couple months now - so they are a bit more conditioned to those early morning hours.  Noah, on the other hand, would sleep til noon if we let him, thus, he's having a little more difficult time in adjusting.  Well, we better all get used to it - we have three more months of this craziness!!  AAAHHHHHH!

By the way - anybody want any cats?  We have 6 that we would gladly part with.  They sit there so nice and cute in front of the door, but then as soon as the door opens a crack, they turn demonic and pounce inside like maniacs.  And then like maniacs ourselves, we scream (well - I scream) and we run around the house chasing them down to throw them out.  Not only that, they crawl on the screens outside and paw at the windows as if we're going to let them in.  Now, we love them because they kill the mice, but they are supposed to be barn cats and stay in the barn - well - except for the fact that we don't have a barn.  But we have an old garage and a horse shelter with a tack room and an old chicken house that is converted to a play house that they have access to.  So there.  Anyway, we have 6 lovely garage/tack room/chicken house cats - just in time for the holidays.  Any takers??