Frozen Marketing

We're getting closer to the "Frozen" production, and meanwhile, the weather is warming up a bit.  It's been gloomy and overcast, but still, things are becoming more springlike despite the fact that it is in fact still winter.  One has the feeling that we've missed a few golden opportunities for frozen precipitation this year, but again, we're grateful for that one ideal bit of snow that poured down upon us.  It was quite nice.  But I think we're pretty much done with the snow.  I could be wrong, of course, and would be glad to be wrong.  We love snow.

Perhaps we'll see some more the closer we get to Elsa and Anna's arrival.  Frozen is coming soon, and the kids were rehearsing for it Saturday.  Tonight, it was more about dancing on pointe, which is something Madison is getting more and more used to.  Daddy was out doing a bit of Valentine's Day shopping as Madison was dancing.  We've got some fun plans for Madison on Wednesday for sure.

She was doing things for Valentine's Day as well, filling out card after card.  These are part of the assignment this week for doing something nice to others, or something like that.  It took her a while to do this, her math homework, and then her piano, and then some work on this computer here as well.  She's keeping up with it all though!  It just means there wasn't much time for anything else tonight.  Ballet keeps you busy!

We got the car checked out today, and all's well for an upcoming trip south.  The weather is warm down there, and we're ready for a small break.  We'll probably still be watching the Olympics though.  We have that Olympic fever, as do many of our friends.  Tonight we were cheering on a few heroes of the halfpipe, and even watching some alpine skiing.  The skiing wasn't as exciting as it usually seems to be, and I think I know the problem:  where's the cowbell?  It seems as if every Olympic event in Europe always had a crowd and several people with cowbells ringing as skiers raced by.  These crowds were a little smaller, and more subdued.  This might be due to the colder weather as well - we'll have to see as the weeks progress.  More skiing is expected tomorrow.  The winds have been high, and it's really affected the skiers adversely.  It's the sort of weather that gives unexpected players an advantage, and frustrates the others I'm sure.

Daddy was working on the school yearbook all the while, and the poems inside it.  Some day we'll look back on this fifth grade book and smile warmly.  Our family has quite a presence in it suddenly, and that was by no means what I was planning.  It's just that artwork was needed here or there, and Madison was able to draw something up, and the next thing you know, she and I are partners in making the second grade intro page.  Daddy's been working on kindergarten through third this week, and hopes to tackle fourth, fifth and pre-school next week or so.  Here's one of the pages for second grade, one that Madison did the artwork for.  The pictures are just generic pictures of elementary school kids found online, used as place holders until the real thing comes along.  All of this is of course a rough draft.

The neat thing again is that Madison did the artwork here.  That's pretty exciting.

Okay, it's time to go back and watch some Winter Games.  We read tonight, more from "When the Sea Turned to Silver," and of course our devotional.  We said our prayers, and we've got so much to be thankful for.  It's hard to be ungrateful for so much mercy and protection upon us, and so much favor.  Despite a few setbacks here and there, we're doing fine generally speaking.  And that, as they say, is better than any of us deserve.