Texas Snow & School Larnin'

I've been a lazy little blogger lately, due to just being plain sick and being away from home over Thanksgiving weekend. We stayed at my sister Ashley's house to watch over Chandler with his broken leg. The rest of the family went on a BMX trip to Oklahoma and Chandler couldn't really come along. (On that note, he had his surgery today and is doing well.) So I'm just now sitting down to post some pictures from our five minute Texas snow.
Fynn's first snow. There IS snow in this picture, I swear. Thank goodness it got cold in time for Thanksgiving!

That's my sister Amy with Ewan, who is indeed pretending the snowflakes are "candy bars and milkshakes." Amy was SHOCKED I wouldn't come out to see the snow. But I was comatose on my parent's bed after a night of solid coughing. She declared I wasn't the person she once knew, or something like that. But I DID look out the window at the snow, Amy, I did!

Fynn drove his car over to ride his dog.

Ewan surprised us one day by declaring "My name is spelled E-W-A-N!" And he'll proudly tell anyone who asks what his name is. Now he's learning how to spell it.

Fynn's name, too.

And a Little Child Shall Lead Them

I take things for granted often. I complain about my house constantly. I don't like the neighborhood, there are so many trees in the back that the shade won't allow for a garden (but I would complain if there were one tree less, not as much "scope for the imagination"), it's a shoe box, the bathroom is a matchbox, etc. I know how blessed I am to have a house with a huge backyard, a house that requires no cosmetic fixing-up whatsoever. I just get bratty and forget it sometimes. I need to take some lessons from my son in humility and gratitude.

I took the boys outside to play this morning, and Ewan was running around the yard, joyfully crunching his feet in all the leaves. He suddenly stopped, looked up at all the tree tops and the sky around him, and turned himself around, arms out, Sound of Music style. He tried to say something, but seemed almost overwhelmed by the fun, the wind, the trees, the magic he was feeling. He then looked at me, smiled and said, "This is a great place to live."

Things I Learned Today

1. When pushing "delete," check 23 times that what you are deleting is actually the thing you want to delete, and not another, beloved thing that would be like deleting your heart.
2. Overusing the word "delete" is fun.
3. So is melodrama. But I've always known that.
4. When a rabbit's cage partially collapses at record-level decibels at 1:27 AM, the ensuing adrenaline rush will be enough to keep you awake indefinitely. Certainly long enough to be posting nonsense after 2:00 AM.
5. When same said rabbit is left to its own devices in your house, it will remove the dryer vent in an attempt to escape into the backyard.
6. Rabbits are hard to catch.

*Update*
7. Adrenaline rush mentioned in #4 can and will last until 4:45 AM.