REALLY cold!

It was 7 degrees at 7:45am this morning. Since it was Reese's first day of Christmas vacation, I allowed him to walk Morgan to the bus stop. I'm so nice! Morgan took a poptart to the bus stop to eat, but only ate 1/4 of it because it got too hard. It was that cold! Wow! The sun came out and made everything sparkle and it looked beautiful, but it did not do much of anything towards warming the air. It was windy and cold. And cold and windy. I think it got up to 36 today but is back down to 16 now.

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When we were leaving the gstore tonight, in the really cold, Morgan started singing "B-R-R, B-R-R, B-R-R-R-R" (to the tune of Jingle Bells). He's really into spelling everything now. Every time I ask him a question he answers Y-E-S or N-O. And he continues to amaze me with his reading and writing skills. He was reading for the December BookIt paper (due tomorrow and we only had 1 of the 10 required books read) and he wanted to write the titles down. He does such a nice job!

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I hear that today is the shortest, coldest day of the year. Winter is here. Brrrrr!!! That means Spring is only 88 days away. But who is counting! Thankfully, it is warm inside, especially when you have a 6 1/2-year-old snuggled next to you reading a book. And I'm sure it is warm under the covers which is where I should be right this very minute instead of blogging. LOL

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One more thing, Morgan got his first Christmas present on Wednesday -- his very own snow shovel. He was so excited, he went out right away and shoveled with his Dad for 2 hrs. And I stayed inside and got the hot chocolate ready. For 2 hours. hahaha I keep forgetting how fast he is growing. We put his boots on from last year and they were so tight he couldn't move his toes. Oops! Had to make a trip to Payless the next day to get 12 1/2 to replace the size 10 from last year. 2 1/2 sizes in just one year!