For my mom...

who's missing her grandkids & lamenting the

end of the Christmas season... all at once :)

And for me.... because I needed a late-morning break...

because it's been one of those days...

because evidently my children ate pure sugar for breakfast, and as a result, my home is now a crazy-high-energy battle ground. A game of capture the flag meets tackle football... even Lolli is playing along.

So far, no injuries.

And all this after Big Man-- who had almost completed his last workbook exercise-- reported that he just didn't "have enough energy to finish the goats." I guess those goats were simply too labor-intensive.

Meanwhile, here I sit-- blogging for therapy... blogging for relief... blogging for my mama :)

Thankfully, I found a few photos tucked away from our Christmas holiday... a few snapshots of the kiddos (both young and older... not old :) at her house on the hill... sledding and speeding and hollering down the side of the mountain in what remained of our Christmas-break blizzard.

So here you go, ma... just for you... with much, much love :)