Winter is dragging on. We are too, dragging ourselves through the days hoping and waiting for spring, our favorite time of the year. Johan heard the birds chirping today so there’s hope.

Our days are now filled with chores and its actually just blah. Some self pity is in order here!

Anyhow, we have still stayed busy with craft, because it brightens our days. For valentines I made little valentines from bottle caps. They were little fridge magnets, and went to Tanya and Leena’s school mates. I only have a B&W printer, so I printed hearts with peoples’ names on pretty paper. It was a good activity.

I also found a very cool craft with recycled toilet paper rolls. You just cut the rolls and then paint and stick them into shapes. The results are unbelievable. Mine is still a work in progress.

Tanya has been playing with wooden trains, and Johan went all out,  making a train shed and a bridge/tunnel combo with old cardboard. As you can see, we like working with recycled material!

Johan has also been making some progress with the cabin, although with everything frozen, the work goes slow. Here’s the latest picture of the greenhouse.

Tanya has been enjoying the snow as usual!

Leena is tired of being indoors, but keeps trying her hand at new experiments. She was very interested in new socks sent by Oma and quickly stripped to try them on!

Lastly, I am now grinding my own grains to make pancakes and it is working well! Johan got me a mixer with a grain grinder attachment for my birthday.

More next time!