Christmas Break

Here I am again, slacking on the blog. We are rolling into Christmas break now and it actually looks like it will be unusually warm for us with temps above zero! Considering it is normally about -50F at Christmas and we are going into the deep cold of winter now, this is very uplifting. Hopefully that will hold as ski club starts up - we start in January rather than November because it is dark by 3pm which would mean skiing with headlamps and with 40 kids in the club, that gets exciting! Speaking of the light, we just had the Winter Solstice and with a total of 3 hours and 41 minutes of daylight yesterday, we'll starting gaining back daylight! With...