{"id":10928,"date":"2025-02-14T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:33:29","slug":"2025-february-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2025\/02\/14\/2025-february-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PDXWLF and Snow."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Winter Light festival! We were back at it again for part 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t go long this night because we were having some listening problems with the kids. Arguing was ensuing, so we ended up going with only about 90 minutes left in the night before things started shutting down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictured above: The Cloud forms a 10 for the event’s tenth anniversary. Ezra would not look at the camera, so I held his face. lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward a few days, and Elijah was yelling and screaming in the hallway, fighting with Arabella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then decided to start kicking and kicked through the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My reaction was pretty good, all in all. I didn’t yell, I didn’t get too upset at all. I took a photo with him to remember the event, and then told him and Sky that I would be thinking about what would happen due to his behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then took a cardboard piece and pink duct tape and covered it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I’m not kidding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel pretty exhausted from everything lately. It doesn’t seem like we can keep the house clean. It doesn’t seem like the kids care about not living like slobs. They can’t be bothered to pick up food off the floor. I don’t know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can ground them, but that means Ara, because the others don’t go out and play with other kids too often. Maybe Elijah, but if he gets a friend in the neighborhood, Ara will swoop in and snatch them away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what do you do? I told Ara we were taking a break from friends until we could start caring for our house. I was told just how unfair I am. I’d agree with her if I were her age, but who knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We typically also won’t ground them from Church events – the hope is that they will continue to learn better behavior on those days\/events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I woke up on the 13th to snow outside. Not a little, but a good amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The snow lasted a couple of days, through Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day, the kids went back and made snowmen – even Ezra got into the action (putting his hands and feet in the snow). For the most part, he enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think a quick break from the chaos of life, being interrupted by a snowstorm, was needed. Now we need to return to earth a bit more as the snow melts away (it’ll be in the 50s by the 15th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

end quote:[{“We live in a rainbow of chaos” – Paul Cezanne]}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[bonus] end quote: {[“I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.” – Bob Dylan]}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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