We have settled back into relative calm this week.  There have been a string of days full of just regular everyday-ness for the little people.  They are unwinding and slipping back into their groove.  

Since I have had some catching up to do to get back into my groove, they have been playing together and generally keeping busy. This is only mostly productive for me because I am easily distracted by the sun falling across little faces or a hearty belly laugh.  I want to bottle this. : ) 

We woke to sun today so Allen packed up the boys (ours and some neighbor kids as well) and went for run/bike.  He runs, they ride.  Then he came back and exchanged them for the little girls who ran errands and went for ice cream cones while we finished packing up the Christmas stuff.  

My house doesn't look quite as tidy as their house does, but it's closer than it was this morning.  I am rewarding myself by sitting down to bind off the scarf I finished this week.  Probably after a few more chapters of The Matchlock Gun. They are dying to know if the French make it into the valley. <g> 

I hope your weekend is warm and bright.