Snow and Santa

We've had lots of snow this week--and the kids love it! It's also very, very cold all of a sudden, so the adults are having a hard time adjusting. I finally decided that I would have to quit wearing my slip on shoes with no socks when I found myself freezing in ankle deep snow scraping off the van. Yesterday I tood Sam and Ginny out into the snow to play for a little while. Ginny plopped right down into the snow and played like she was sitting in a sand pile. When Sam lay down to make a snow angel, she followed suit. Sam thought it was hilarious to go sliding down the slide on the swing wet and end up --poof! in a big pile of snow at the bottom. Unfortunately, the snow was too powdery to make a snowman.
Emily has been really, really sick this week--following Sam from last week. Sam finally got an antibiotic on Monday and has been doing a lot better since then. Of course, they wouldn't believe me that Emily had the same thing as her brother until her fever and terrible cough persisted for 4 days, so this morning I was finally able to get her some medicine. But, since she is a pretty big kid now, the doctor said it was really better for her to have the medicine in pill form. Well, we got home and had 20 minutes of tears and drama before she got her pills swallowed, but then she threw them back up again. I'm waiting to see what the doctor says we should do. What a disaster--we were both crying.
We took the kids to see Santa this morning at the scout Santa breakfast at church. Max asked for a multi-function pocket knife, Sam asked for a costume, and Ginny of course, didn't ask for anything, but she did sit on Santa's lap for a picture with her brothers. It was a very nice Santa experience--no crazy lines like at the mall--free breakfast, and lots of time to sit on Santa's lap and talk to him. This is a nice service/fundraiser that the scouts provide.
Trevor is home for the weekend--yippee! Only 3 more weeks until we move and we don't have to do this anymore. I'm doing okay so far--but praying daily for extra doses of patience.
Guess that's it for now!