3 years 5 months 3 days

Day 1251. I had set an alarm for 9 am, but Emmy was the first one up at 8 am and soon they were all up. We took our time getting up ourselves, then had breakfast. When we looked outside, we saw that it had continued snowing all night and so there was lots of snow on the ground. The kids wanted to go outside to play in it, and so I picked out clothes for them to do so. However, I was teaching from 10 to 12, so Randy had to take them outside himself. They went outside the apartment downstairs and played right there in that area. Emmy tried out the sled, but it wasn't working very well. Tammy was playing in the snow and then made two big balls of snow that Daddy helped her put on top of each other to create a snowman. They found bottlecaps to use as eyes and nose. As for Sammy, he did not like the snow at all, and so Randy went inside with him, where he could still see the other two outside. It was close to noon before they came back inside.

In fact, Emmy suddenly walked into my room a few minutes before I was done teaching. Then the doorbell rang, then the bell at the door to our apartment. I had to interrupt my lesson every time. It turned out that Emmy had gone inside downstairs and shut the door and locked Daddy, Sammy and Tammy out. I finished my lesson and already had the soup simmering on the stove, so that we could eat right away.

They all ate more or less and then had icecream, then sat down to watch videos. Randy left to pick-up another cart, and at 1:15 I put the kids to bed for their nap. They fell asleep relatively easily, and I walked away before Tammy was all the way asleep.

I was really tired myself and wanted to sleep, but I had so much office work to catch up on and was excited to finally have a few hours to make good progress, and so I just got started working and powered through the tiredness. Randy eventually returned, and then it wasn't long until Emmy woke up first. It was only about 2:30. Sammy then woke up as well, and it didn't take long for Tammy to also wake up. They all ended up going downstairs with Randy, while I continued working.

Just before 6 pm they came back upstairs, and Randy left right away to go pick up another cart. I then started making their dinner, while Tammy and Emmy were watching videos, and Sammy was first watching children's songs, but was then playing on the floor. Then we sat down at the table to eat. They then continued eating in the water, but the bathtub fun ended, when someone had pooped into the water, and so I got them all out quickly. And all that by myself, as Randy wasn't home yet. I then started drying them off and putting their pj's on one after another, and then we ended up watching videos of them from the past few weeks. While we were doing that, Randy returned, and they immediately ran to see the cart he had brought home. It was about 8 pm.

This cart was a workbench with tools which excited especially Tammy and Emmy who immediately started playing with it. We finally had to pull them away to get them to bed. I read a Bible story to them, prayed for the, flew them into bed, and sat down by them. Randy was making his dinner and then took my place and ate sitting by them. Sammy had already asked for Daddy, while Tammy wanted me to stay. I then went to the kitchen to make my own food and sat down to eat. Then I continued doing office work for a long time, until I decided to write a report after all since I had all these pictures of today. It's now after midnight and time to clean up the kitchen and go to bed. It's a busy day tomorrow.