Back to school

I can't believe that Christmas vacation is over. I had a great holiday and I hope you did too.  

We had a huge ice storm here just before Christmas and it knocked power out to a lot of surrounding communities.  Luckily we were just without power for about 5 hours on Christmas day.  My sister, unfortunately, was without power for 5 days.

It was also so cold that we experienced cryoeisems, or frost quakes. They were so scary.  It sounded like the house was cracking apart.  You can read more about them here. 

I'm trying a bit of a new schedule in the new year.  I'm hoping it works.  We'll take this week to try it out.

This week's plans include some activities from some of my friends over at Freebielicious.  You can find the links to everything by downloading the file (click on the first picture).