Winter is here. Again.

This weekend was a four-day for Micah. That's definitely a perk of the military--they celebrate every holiday and usually tack on an extra day while they're at it. Unfortunately we had freezing rain on Saturday and an ice storm that night so on Sunday everything was a frozen tundra. We entertained ourselves watching the dogs slide around on the ice when we let them out to go the bathroom. Poor little Jack couldn't even get back up the steps to come inside.

There was a 50 car pile-up on the highway, but that didn't stop us from going out. Oh no, we had things to do. What can I say, we are motivated like that. Or just stupid.

One of Micah's dreams came true this weekend. He has long wanted a recliner. To me a recliner is like the station wagon of furniture--sure it's comfy, practical and good for taking naps, but in most cases they are also a huge overstuffed eyesore. So I've always said he could get a recliner as long as it didn't look too much like one.

So in the midst of the bad weather, we went to American Furniture to shop for a filing cabinet with locking drawers to consolidate all of our many filing containers. I guess our impending move is motivating us to get organized. While we were there we ended up looking at recliners (no filing cabinet was purchased).

There was only one that fit my criteria and Micah deemed it uncomfortable and too expensive. Alas, it was not meant to be. Oh, but wait! We then went to World Market to look at the one filing cabinet they have since I had a whole bunch of gift cards and there it was......The Recliner (again, no filing cabinet was purchased).

I have never seen Micah so giddy about a piece of furniture. He said it was perfect, it was comfortable, not quite the head support he was looking for but he could use a pillow. In short, a good compromise. And best of all--$800 marked down to $600 marked down to $400 with a 25% off coupon brought it down to $300. Then I used my gift cards. You can't beat that.

Micah wanted the living room rearranged so that the recliner was in a prime TV-viewing location. He also declared he and Skylar are the only ones allowed to sit in it. Well, and Jack. (He later said I could too...but I don't think he meant it.)

As if a recliner wasn't enough excitement, Micah also had a ticket to the Rockies play-off game on Sunday. I was feeling pretty yucky in the afternoon when he left, but by last night I was full-blown sick with a 102 temp. To top it off, Skylar decided her big girl bed isn't that great after all. She woke up at 1230 and cried until 430 this morning when I was finally able to get her to sleep again. Two hours into the ordeal it finally occurred to her that she can get out of her bed whenever she wants. I found her down in the kitchen looking for a snack at 2:30 am. It was a miserable night.

But at least Micah had fun:

Not feeling well and being stuck in the house has made me a little desperate, so I decided to let Skylar use her sand table inside. I haven't gotten any sand for it yet so I put water in it yesterday (I don't know what I was thinking) and that was a huge mess. Today I decided to dump a couple of bags of dried lentils in it so I could blog and Micah could study in peace.
As I was finishing this up I looked over and saw this:

That's the price we pay for ignoring our child for 30 minutes. There are lentils everywhere.