The never ending January

I think I feel this way every year, but this January feels like it has been a year.  Once Christmas is over the winter seems to drag on.  Depression always hits me in January. I know I should push myself to get outside and exercise, but I have no motivation and no energy!  It's a hard cycle to break. I think we all get a little bit of the winter blues and feel a bit stir crazy.  

Some days I'm good at pushing myself and the kids and other days I let the kids play on screens while I read.  I made Hallee go outside one afternoon and she wanted me to time her while she rode her bike around the block.

The kids love it when I make smoothies.  Hallee likes to put a cucumber on the side of her cup to fancy it up.

Wyatt is almost finished with the Harry Potter books.  After he finishes a book he watches the movie with Jonah and Keith.  One night we watched the first movie with Wyatt and Hallee.  I found Wyatt asleep with his Harry Potter (it's actually Caitlyn's, but she gave it to him) wand that night. 

Jonah has been playing Jr. Jazz with his friends.  He is enjoying that.

Wyatt's friend Dallin signed up for a Parkour class at Lowes and asked if Wyatt wanted to join him.  I debated because it was expensive, but we finally decided it was worth it to get out of the house in January and have somewhere warm to get some exercise. 

I think they have more fun goofing off together than doing parkour.  It's a beginning class so Wyatt is a little bored. 

When I read that siblings could jump for free during the class, that sealed the deal.  Hallee loves to jump every week during his class.

Last week we stayed after class for an hour and half to let Wyatt and Hallee jump together. 

There have been some beautiful sunsets to cheer up this dreary January. 

Caitlyn and I went and got pedicures during Wyatt's break dancing class a couple of weeks ago.

Caitlyn decided to splurge and get her nails done.  She was a little worried that she would want to do it all the time if she did it once, but when it was time for her to pay she decided once was enough.  

We were excited to hang out with the Barth's over Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend.  They came over on Saturday and the kids had so much fun playing and I loved talking to Tiff.  I didn't get any pictures, but when they left I snapped a couple of my kids.  I love that Hallee and Tessa always play some real life game that involves dress up.  They were explores and this is what Hallee changed into. 

The boys built this cool fort.  We were hoping to hang out with them more that weekend, but they ended up getting sick, which was a bummer. 

My kids had Tuesday off of school as well.  Caitlyn and Jonah stayed busy with friends or school things. I took Hallee and Wyatt over to the school to play at the park.  It was one of those days that all I wanted to do was lay in bed, but I pushed myself and we went to the park, go me!

I was so happy when Wyatt and Hallee played together outside.  They made a little fort in the tree house and had a great time together.  It is seriously the best thing ever to see your kids have fun together. 

Wednesday was a virtual learning day.  A ton of teachers and staff are out sick so they added on a virtual learning day to try and help with the staffing shortage.  It made it feel like Christmas break 2.0!  I'm so grateful that my kids are hard working and motivated.  They all did their school work without any problem.  Wyatt had a zoom call and he did it from his hoover cart.