Since Italy...we do other things than just travel, sort of.

It sometimes feels like the time between trips is all about planning and packing for the next trip.  We have had no "normal" for the last two plus years.  But, alas, this is not a travel blog though it may have felt that way for the last couple of years.  We do, very rarely and occasionally just hang out at home.  Mostly we do this when my husband is traveling because he's the one with all the drive to get us going places and not waste a minute of our precious time here.  However, sometimes plans fall trough and even he ends up spending a Saturday or Sunday at home.  This is what it looks like... 

A beer, football, and cute boys in jammies!

I mentioned in some of my recent posts that we are unexpectedly moving back to the states earlier than was planned.  We'll be moving back to my home state it seems this summer.  So the list of trips got put on a different timeline and there are a few big items that we wanted to buy while we are here.  Brian and I have gone antiquing a couple of times looking for a buffet that matches our Brittany-style 100 year old table that we have loved.  We found the perfect piece at about the third place that we went.  The first two had pieces that matched, but weren't the right size, height, displace space, or storage space.  This was the one, but we were disappointed that the color was a shade lighter than our table.  After expressing that out loud, the wife of the shop owner said, "Oh, we can do that.  No problem."  Sold!

Pre-stained and fixed up...It won't be ready until sometime in February, but I am so excited.  He saw me looking at a Brittany-style napkin holder and Brian found a cool wooden shoe horn (It's weird, but our kids are in love with the shoe horns that we have seen at the apartments that we have rented all over Europe) and the owner gave them both to us as a gift.

After buying our buffet, we went to the grocery store to pick up a few things, and got coffees to go.  Then we stopped by a Doner shop and got a wrap to share.  It was a nice time together without the kids.


That evening, it started snowing and after dinner, Brian took all the kids (except Isaac because he had been really sick with fever and cough) outside to sled.  I got to talk to my brother on the phone with almost no interruptions, but Drew did get hit by a snowball and come in crying to me at one point.

Instead of sledding, Bob just ate snow for 2 hours.