Winter Retreat : 1000 Gifts

The kids and I just spent a week with my parents is sunny Florida. Reaching the Beltway in the sleet and darkness of Friday rush hour, we looked back and named a few favorite gifts from our winter retreat.

So, we add again to our list of endless gifts...

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Spring flowers in February. (Hannah)

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Warm days spent outside.

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Volunteering with Mema at school. (Hannah)

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Playing baseball with Grandpa. (Will)

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Quiet, lazy days... for us anyway... my parents would not likely call these days quiet.

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Big family dinners.

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Ice cream cones. Every night.

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A night out with Angie. And coffee with Amie.

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Soccer with Samuel and David. (Will and Peter)

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Sarah Mae. (Hannah)

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Cousins.

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Legoland!

All of us marveled at this mini DC made of Legos!

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Mema and Grandpa's Wii (we don't have one so it is a big treat!) (Will and Peter)

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Grandpa's Smoked Chicken BBQ.

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No traffic and no puppy accidents on the 12 hour car ride!  (All of us... especially Mom!)

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Books on CD.

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Coming back home. Dad waiting with homemade pizza.

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Last basketball games. Season ending pizza parties.

 I love this. "Mom, did you see how tall that boy was?"

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And back to normal Monday mornings.

February Quiet

We are still here.

I've not forgotten about this space. There have been so many days I have wanted to write about homeschooling, share our list of endless gifts, maybe scribble out what has been going on in our home and hearts. But it's the time; I found I had little of it to spend here. Life has been full... and sometimes a blog that shares bits of our life needs to pause and just let life happen.

A little Valentine love from our home to yours....