It’s getting cold up here again, and all of a sudden I’m realizing that I have no idea how to take care of kids in a wintertime setting. Yesterday we were trapped in the house because the Captain and the Gal have a bad chest cold, and they were SO bored, and I was like, duh, what kinds of things do we do inside, again?

Because all summer long our routine has been: go outside; come inside and eat; return to the outdoors; repeat until we collapse from heatstroke. It’s so easy to entertain the kids outside; they always seem to find something interesting to do, and worst case I can just give them a big bucket of water and I won’t hear from them for three hours. Now that we need to find some indoor activities, I’m stumped. You’d think I’d never lived through a winter before. Look, snow! So pretty and soft and white and fluffy! I hope we get more! (Stupid, stupid Lynn.)

So far I’ve come up with PlayDoh. And maybe we could paint? Did we used to do that? Or maybe…baking? Sometimes? That sounds familiar.

Maybe I’ll just get them all an account on Etsy. That seems to fill hours of my time with no problem…should work for them too!