Froemmings

 Well, I think we've accomplished just about everything that we set out to get done on our Christmas Vacation 2020 Bucket List. I did have scrapbooking down on the list which I haven't done yet. And we did do a morning movie, but I didn't take any pics to document. I was out running errands for most of it, but the rest of the gang watched the new movie out on Disney+ called 'Soul.' Dad and the girls said it was really good. So, here's the recap! I actually spent quite a bit of time outside playing. Boo. Haha. At least it was nice out most of the time. One of our bucket list activities was a reading afternoon. I had gotten some hot cocoa bombs from  Sonder Bakehouse  who is actually a girl from my hometown. I thought they would go great for our bookpalooza.  Between helping Clara with her book and not having much time before I needed to start dinner, I didn't get very far in my own book. But I did stay up too late a couple of nights later and finished it. (If...

This week we tried to find the convergence of Jupiter and Saturn, but realized the next day that what we actually spotted was Mars. Oh well; it was still fun looking for it.   On Tuesday we received notification that school was going to be cancelled for Wednesday due to a blizzard warning. Brynn was already going to be at home that day, but Clara was to be in school for her last day before the holiday break. So, she was pretty excited for an opportune snow day. I wasn't about to miss my morning group dance exercise class on Wednesday morning and had talked Brynn into joining me with the promise of homemade coffee toffee ice cream! She made it up in time to go and we both donned our festive wear. The weather was already pretty nasty at 5:30 in the morning, but not impossible. So, after class was done we ventured downtown so that I could pick up some hot cocoa bombs I ordered from a local baker who is originally from Fessenden. Brynn decided she was starving for breakfast so I s...