Science Experiment

In my last post I mentioned that Quinn started his science experiment (read yesterday's post). Well.... Quinn's mother ended up monitoring the thermometer until 12:30am! It took that one can of pop exactly 4 hours and 4 minutes to get to a cold 37 degrees! Obviously we started it too late. I thought is would be only a couple of hours at the worst... boy was I wrong! Quinn wasn't too happy to go to bed and leave the timing to me but there's no way he could stay up that late! We have a couple of more methods to try yet so I've learned a lesson... start early in the day! Ha!

Today was church in the morning and then the youth had a Haystack Dinner for a fund raiser followed by the annual congregational meeting. After that we were home for the rest of the day. It's rainy and cold outside. It didn't stop Quinn and Nate from playing football outside... Quinn in his Vikings jersey and Nate in his Colt's jersey. Madison is getting the cold that the other 3 of us have had already so she laid pretty low today and said she didn't "have the energy" to even go up and down the steps. : ) You know she isn't feeling great when she sits down and watches football with us!!! The colds were relatively mild... although annoying for a few days.

Tia!!... so good to hear from you and great to know you are reading along! For those of you that don't know Tia... we went to college together at Olivet although we didn't know each other, except for may be being acquaintances, until we found ourselves working at Elkhart General together. She quickly became a great friend. We ended up working in pain management together and shared our lives inside and outside of work too. She moved to Indy but we've still kept in touch. So far those years of my nursing career have been my favorite. We were easy to remember in the hospital because we were the only nurses in our dept. and our names rhymed! : ) Her first of 3 little boys used to be a toddler and now he is a freshman in HS. How did that happen??

We are supposed to get an ice storm tonight. The kids are off of school for Martin Luther King day so that's probably a good thing. They are already going to Katie and Nathan's for the day. I'll slide my way in to work and if the roads truely are bad, some of the morning patients will reschedule... that would be an OK way to start out a Monday. : )

Have a good week! Love to all of you, Leah