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Bloggy New Year

Happy New Year! We are on this strange winter vacation schedule this year, which is making the holidays stretch out like pulled taffy. The kids in Minneapolis had school right up until Christmas, and so the break didn't officially begin until Dec 26. They won't go back until Jan 9, which seems a very long time from now! My parent perspective is "Xmas is over, New Year's is over, just get back to school!" But the vacation is stretching out before us for the next week... of course the kids love it!

I'm going to take my opportunity, then, to Do Stuff this week. Some stuff we have to do, like Dr. and dentist appointments and piano lessons, but I want to go to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts before they take down their holiday decorations, and the kids grumble and groan, but they really do enjoy looking at all the art, once I get them in the door! I want to take them swimming at the Y, where we haven't been using our memebership in quite awhile. It's harder to get the kids to the Y now that the older ones are 14, but I will make it mandatory... or else they can take leave of their prescious electronic equipment for awhile. Trust me, if I didn't make them get out and do stuff, they would literally sit in front of various computer/video/TV screens all day and never interact socially or smell fresh air.

And then there's movies. I'm on a movie kick lately--- last week I took them to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and it was great. DH and I went on an actual date and saw The Family Stone, and enjoyed that very much. It's always fun to see other families in action that are even more dysfunctional than our own! I saw Brokeback Mountain (awesome!) yesterday, and I know we will see King Kong this week, too. Yesterday, it was our annual day-long Watch All Three Lord of the Rings Extended DVDs with our friend D. who is crazy for the movies. We've done this about 3 times now, and while I do love the movies, I sure didn't mind sneaking out for a portion of the day to see Brokeback Mountain. I still saw a lot of LOR yesterday!

I wish to you all a Happy New Year (I almost wrote Nappy New Year, and considering how much sleep I got last night, that might work too!)!