Scattered Thoughts . . .

I t looks like we missed our surprisingly long window of unseasonably warm weather in the 70s everyday so we chose to decorate inside the house for Christmas today rather than the cold damp outdoors through this weekend.  Decorating outdoors was our plan but, honestly, I have no desire to be out there when the temperature gets down to around 40 degrees.    I was thinking that the unseasonably warm weather we've had for months would continue through Thanksgiving.  Why would I think the temperature would drop suddenly to early winter temperatures?   We've had weather consistently in the 70s for months so I was expecting the everyday highs to slowly and steadily drop to the 60s for a bit...  then the 50s...  then the 40s.  I thought I had all sorts of time before needing to decorate outside.  Instead, we went from the 70s everyday to the possibility of snow for the foreseeable future.  I think our outdoor Christmas decorating may be minimal this year.  Certainly the weather plays

As I had written previously, we spent the day outdoors decorating the house and yard for Christmas. It looks great out there! The only thing which can make it look better is some fresh snow. After finishing decorating outdoors, we headed indoors and continued since we already had all the storage bins of decorations out and open. Now, the inside of the house is looking pretty nice too!

After writing about outdoors in a previous blog entry, now, we'll visit indoors at the Montshire Museum of Science. Sheila had been to the Montshire many times before with her own children when they were young children so there were no surprises for her nor was there much discovering for her to do. I, however, had never visited this museum before so it was all new to me... same for Lukey and Kenzie. It was a time to discover new territory! The entrance of the museum is very nice... clean, very well organized, and the task lighting throughout the museum is very effective and it creates a nice mood. We quickly and easily paid our admission at the front desk and moved into all the science exhibits and interactive stations. Once we showed Lukey and Kenzie what to do at these mirrors (the lead photo here), they had a lot of fun trying different things! At first, when I pointed out this mirror, I think they were saying to themselves, "so what?... it's a mirror, Papa..