A typical hibernation day thanks to the rain...

Can I tell you how much I would not do well in the Pacific Northwest where it rains quite a bit? Well, I wouldn't do well and I'll just leave it at that.

Today, thanks to the rain, we spent the day inside. We were able to have some fun and memorable moments. I got a chance to try out Space Bags. For those of you who are not infomercial watchers you place clothing in these bags and attach a vacuum hose and it takes out all of the air. When you unzip it the clothes go back to their normal state. We're thinking of saving space when we go on vacation of using these bags and hopefully on need 1 car this year. That will be another story for another time. Anyway the bag works very well and we are looking forward to the space savings.

On the kid front we had fun playing inside all kinds of different games. I will admit the humidity can get the better of the fun at times but we just need to deal with it.

Tonight we sat down and watch a potty training video featuring Bear of "Bear and the Big Blue House" fame. The video should have been up for an Academy Award but the Academy is just jealous of 7 foot bears who talk. The good side was the fact that Child2 wanted to sit on the potty like Ojo. It is a start!

Child1 learned how to play Sudoku tonight. I got to admit it was fun to watch Child1's brain process the puzzle. Even though the puzzles were 2 x 2 Child1 was able to navigate their way through the puzzles. We look at some ones further back in the book and Child1 was excited about giving them a try. It will be nice when we want to do our own puzzle books that we can let Child1 do their own puzzle.

Our late afternoon was hooked to our TV set as we watched the Red Sox blow the lead, fight back and come from behind to win the game. For the kids it was frustrating because they wanted the game to be over to continue their night time activities but we didn't want to miss a potential game winning hit (like we did Saturday). Thankfully Papi made our evening less stressful by hitting the game winning single scoring Youk.

All in all this is probably the kind of day we are going to have when the weather doesn't cooperate. I want everyone to do what they need to do to help us change the weather and have summer return sooner rather than later.