New Year ....New Post

Well, time to stop being a slacker. I'm sure you were wondering what happened to the Gacnik family since the Nov. post. Well, I'll tell you. Thanksgiving came and went...we were in IA with the Kiefer family and it was wonderful. Christmas came and went....we were home for this. We enjoy waking up in our own house, with our own traditions Christmas morning. New Years came and went....we were home for this as well. Literally, we stayed home until.... ..Grandpa Kiefer fell and broken his tibia & fibia and herniated a disc in his spine. So the kiddo and I packed up and headed to Iowa (warmer destination, huh?) to help out and keep his spirits up and drink wine with grandma. (I drank the wine, not the kids). Anyway it was a great little getaway but it was not accompanied by warmer weather. In fact, they hit negative temps. It was nuts. We headed back to "tropical" MN early to get ahead of a storm coming through. You'd think I would have strayed away from the cold temps, but no, we hurried back the 5 hours and arrived when it was still warm, -15 degrees....the following morning when we woke up it was -28 degrees with a -53 windchill. Have I mentioned we really do not like cold weather.

My brother Matt said it best at Thanksgiving, he really doesn't miss the cold and finds if he want to ski and be chilled to the bone, he can fly to it....I'm starting to like his mentality. Cold and snow is one thing when you can play outside. Once it's sub-zero it just loses the fun. Okay - enough of it. We live in MN where it snows 8 months out of the year. It's bound to be cold!

Other than that the kids are doing great. We have personal concerts every day with Luke rocking out to "The Wiggles" and testing his dance skills. Maddie has been working at her gymnastics. In addition, we have been visiting the ice rink (in the summer months it's called a playground, but in the winter they cover it was water and turn it into an outdoor rink). Anyway, she's having fun and a little dare devil. What else, not much really. Sorry for the absence for awhile. I was busy being a mom and that took priority. I'll try to keep you followers.....are there any followers? is anyone out there?.....well, I'll keep the blog updated. Cheers

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