Winter Break - Day One - Anchorage

I remember when winter break didn't start until Monday.  Those days were nice. 

We had a snow day on Monday, then no school on Friday: Seriously, there's almost no point to sending them to school for three days of cupcakes and singing.  Then of course there's a concert every night of the week. I needed to be at each school for at least an hour each day.  By the time the week before winter break was over, I was ready for them to go back to school.

I appreciate it, though.

My apartment is not big enough to house 4 hyper children.  I had my two children, the 7 year old that I usually just see off to school and the 12 year old that lives in the house behind us for most of the day. And to think I started the day in an awesome mood...

I just hope that I get through the rest of this break/vacation still intact.  I expect to have at least this many kids in my house daily for the next 18 days.  Tomorrow, I'll post some pics and vids of the kids sledding in front of the house.  Hopefully that will tire the younger ones out enough to take a nap.