Stir Crazy!

Perhaps you've heard we've had some snow...

So yesterday was the breaking point, the point you have reached when you tackle the dreaded tasks out of sheer boredom. Yes my friends, we're talking about taxes and science fair projects!

My friend Marcy has agreed to help with the unending nightmare of dealing with taxes. In desperation, I bribed her with coffee and was able to drag her out. First coffee shop was closed, be we persevered and found one open. Thanks for making an unenjoyable chore enjoyable!

The second thing we did was Trent's science fair project. I think parents dread these things more than the kids, because frankly it is a lot of work! Trent doesn't have to do a science fair project, which makes it even more painful. So, in the name of making of our kid smarter, we chomped on some gum.

You see his project was to see which gum made the biggest bubbles. We chomped and blew and chomped and blew until our jaws hurt from so much chomping and blowing. The irony which was not lost on us was that Trent can't blow bubbles, much less chew gun because of braces, so he enlisted Mom, Dad and Kyle for help.

Lucky us.

The paper below has a measuring tool and labels to help us decipher how long we had been chewing and which gum we had. All very scientific of course!

After all of this, books and TV seemed a little less boring and we returned to our caves to hunker down again. We still have Kyle's science fair project to do, but we have to wait until we can go outside...

It's explosive!