Snowmageddon 2013

Well we are snowed in, who'd of thunk in the 21st century we'd be snowed in like this with all the equipment we have these days.  Well when the snow comes down in 4-5" an hour that's how.  We have about 3ft of snow acrossed our street.  It's going to take a bulldozer to get through it.  There are lots of reports of snowplows getting stuck.
Milford CT got like 38" and oxford which is a town over got 36.2.  I'm somewhere in there.
Here are some videos and pictures of the snow.

 yes he's shoveling snow from the window to break up the drift.

Stopping Time

In September we took a little staycation.  We went to the beach, soaked up the rays.  The  beach to me is a place all worries disappear, time stops,  the beauty of the skyline, the smell of the salt water, and the touch of the sand is it's own meditation.  I leave there feeling a sense of total relaxation.  I did not make it to the beach enough this summer, must change that for 2013.

I'm glad we were able to have such a great weather day for our last hurrah of the summer.

Ending one chapter starting another

Ending one chapter.  The girls have been doing martial arts for the last 5 1/2 years.  They are now red belts, 2 belts away from being black belts.  Over the past month or so they have started asking to do new things, those things were at the same time we do martial arts lessons. They decided they would like to stop the martial arts lessons for acting and hula hoop lessons.  I made them sit on their decision and think about it.  They love martial arts and they love their teachers, their teachers are all amazing. Their hearts weren't in it for the black belt, and that's ok.  It was very hard to say goodbye.  A picture from when they got their red belts.  

Starting the new chapter.  Amber has wanted to start acting lessons for a few years now, but we just couldn't fit in the schedule.  Chloe is getting really awesome with the hula hoop.  Amber gets to start acting lessons in two weeks.  Chloe is getting tips at my hula hoop lessons and will be starting class as soon as the next one starts up.  They both want to do painting and drawing classes.