Winter break begins today.  I can't believe how fast the last few months have flown by.  The other day I joked with another SAHM whose youngest also started kindergarten about how now that the kids are in school all day we never see each other.  And I thought I would have so much time on my hands.  HA!

Now, I have been busy getting back into career mode.  No job at this point, but spending a lot of time researching, networking, and refining what I want to do when I grow up (or at least in the next year). 

But the next few weeks, I am going to enjoy taking time off from 'constant homework badgering' (my oldest is in junior high...need I say more?).  The extracurricular activities also slow down, and thus so does my time as a taxi cab driver.

I'm not much of a 'crafty' mom, but I am looking forward to a few fun projects with the kids...1) making a gingerbread house (using an all inclusive kit, of course), and 2) turning my six and nine year olds' great story telling imagination into their first books using Tikatok.  I have been wanting to try this out for awhile and now will have the time to help my guys give it a whirl.  This service provides story prompts for creative minds but with the flexibility to tell their own stories as well as plenty of space for custom illustrations that can be uploaded.  Books can be professionally published at a reasonable cost as well as downloaded into PDF ebooks for a small fee.  If the test drive goes well, I am thinking about having the kids collaborate on book to give their Papa for his 70th birthday.  What grandparent wouldn't love that?!