Cards, Cards, Cards!

This is Raynie, Gracie and Elena.  They were playing one of many games of Go Fish!  Gracie is such a doll to play with the little girls, even though she also learned to play Hand and Foot Canasta with the big people over this Thanksgiving.  Gracie is 10 and Raynie and Elena are 6.  Elena will be 7 in February and Raynie will be 7 in July.  They are so sweet to sit and play so patiently with each other.  Even Sadie was sweet to play with the little girls and I had a chance to play a few games with them, too.

We never got around to the puzzles we meant to work.  We've put the puzzles on hold for Spring Break. There just wasn't time to do all the playing and visiting and eating, plus a puzzle!  Gretta and Trish brought work with them, so that also cut into the puzzle time.  The dream of puzzling helped to pull us all to one place, though.  We'll get the puzzles done in Branson!

We got another half inch of snow here, today.  It is 19 out there with a wind chill of 7, so I'm not eager to go out for anything.  I did go monitor testing this morning and am supposed to go tomorrow, as well.  The only good thing about that is that I don't have to TAKE the test, plus I get paid to do it.  I feel for the kids having to take the tests.  Of course, if they've paid attention to their studies the tests won't be hard for them . . . that's the problem, because so many of them don't pay much attention!