a welcomed winter break

i walked into school on friday and one of my students said to me, "ms. n., are you OKAY? you look exhausted." i wasn't even wearing my leopard snuggie. 
so it was with great anticipation that i welcomed winter break. even though the days have been so full of work and christmas crafting and baking and errands, i love coming home to our living room always, especially during this time of year. we've been eating almost every meal in front of the tree and fire, and playing lots of games on warm blankets. even if there was a cheap flight to the cayman islands, i'm quite content to just stay right here. 

although this weekend, adah and i attempted (while anne was visiting her other kids) to begin our weekend at the beach, for a cozy weekend away from doing. things went a little awry. barfing child + power outage in rockaway beach = early end to weekend date with daughter. we did have fun, though, while it lasted. we had some play time on the beach, but mostly lots of snuggles, games, watercolor snowflakes, and ovaltine inside. 

cold oregon coast weather with random bouts of aggressive hailing didn't stop this kid from digging in the sand with sock-mittened fingers. she is feeling all better, by the way. the barfing business was totally random.:)