Monday, January 20

A restful holiday. Andrew left this morning for Texas, his flight taking off without any problems despite the freezing temperature. The girls slept in, and then, with their breakfast, we watched an episode of Lost, the first of the day. In danger of watching Lost for the ENTIRE day, we tried to pace ourselves, breaking every few episodes for lunch, room-cleaning, studying (Greta), showering (Lucia), reading (me), two rounds of Unstable Unicorns, and dinner. It was very cozy to just hang out with the girls all day instead of having them disappear into their rooms--Lost was the perfect show to get them to spend many hours with me downstairs. I crocheted a new baby bunny pattern while we watched, too. 

School will be remote the next two days because of the extreme cold, which means no dropoffs, pickups, or sports. I'll be working from home. It's going to be a nice quiet week, though "quiet" isn't quite right since the kids are finding it hilarious to hurl insulting nicknames at each other as they try to nail down the brash, abrasive, aggressive drawl of Sawyer, a character on Lost. 

Needless to say, we did not watch any news today, though Lucia was keeping up with the latest headlines on her phone and would occasionally deliver a report. We'll need about seventy seasons of Lost to keep us distracted through all this.