February Catchup

It's amazing how I can miss just a few days of posting on this blog and I feel like I have to do major catchup. Oh well. So let's do some of that catchup right now.

February 19 was National Chocolate Mint Day. Jr. really wanted to make chocolate mints but couldn't find everything that was needed so he took my advice, melted some chocolate, and dipped pieces of candy cane in it- voila, chocolate mints.

February 21 was the anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. The kids played Zelda music on their stringed instruments. A couple days later, Jr. played the game Majora's Mask while Nichole painted. Yeah, that's right. If you give Nichole a medium...

February 23 was National Rationalization Day. It was somewhat low key that day. I did make banana bread because it was also National Banana Bread Day. I'll tell you something. It was so nice to sit around the table as a family, eating banana bread and talking. I love my family.

February 26 was Carnival Day. We had pink lemonade with dinner.

February 27 was National Chili Day, National Toast Day, and National Strawberry Day. Guess what we ate. Turkey chili and toast with strawberry jam. Mmmmmm.

February 28 was National Tartar Sauce Day. We had fish sticks sandwiches. That day was also National Tooth Fairy Day. Lucky celebrated a day later by having another loose tooth come out while he was eating carrots.

February 29 was Leap Day. Apparently, according to our 2020 National Day Calendar, it was also National Rare Disease Day USA. How appropriate I was sick that day. Luckily it wasn't a rare disease, though. I'll take what I had over something really scary. I looked back at my last Leap Year post in 2016 and family members were sick then, too. Sigh.
Nichole and I watched the movie, Leap Year, on Leap Day. Nichole and Joshua also took care of dinner that night. Thanks, kids. Joshua took care of dinner the next night as well while I was recovering but I'll go into more of that when I post about the beginning of March.

Wow. Busy busy. And it's still Winter so this is all still with the baby and me not going out much. Wow.

Humphrey Bogart's Birthday

December 25 was Humphrey Bogart's birthday.  What better way to celebrate than by opening presents (can you believe I didn't take pictures of present opening?), having a special dinner the night before,

Eating scones with blackberry jam in the morning (Mmmmmmm),

And making gingerbread houses with friends?
I had two 5-year olds helping me.  Can you tell?

Oh, and wasn't it nice of me to make homemade gifts to celebrate his birthday?

I decorated a bowl for Jeremy and this time I traced my hands.  He really likes the one from the kids (I blogged about it the beginning of December).

I made each of the kids a new rice warmer.  They haven't had new ones since Christmas 2013 and eventually the rice warmers broke.  Jeremy's is still fine.  Lucky never got one but has been wanting one.

Unfortunately I didn't make one for myself (even though I also needed a new one) but that problem was solved in the form of angels from our ward.  One of the kids from our Primary class dropped off a rice warmer as a gift the other day.  Hooray.  I kind of claimed it for myself.  I hope the rest of the family doesn't mind.  It smells like mint and makes me think of relaxing with a nice warm cup of herbal tea.  Mmmmm.  Thanks, angels.

And thanks to all the wonderful friends for their kindness this month leading up to celebrating Humphrey Bogart's birthday.  How did you know?