January blues

January is the worst month of the year. It usually is slow because there are no more parties. Everyone is poor from Christmas; the weather is blah (and even cold in Atlanta). To help with the January Blues; I remember my mother would always start a new project or hobby just to get through the month.
For New Years, we went over to a friend's house and played their Xbox. There was some classic singing from American Idol. When I sang, I was able to get the little bitty kids to dance with my smooth moves and way "talented" singing.

Then my parents came to visit (to get out of the inversion in SLC). We had a nice relaxed weekend and went to visit the Little White House in Warm Springs. This is where President Franklin D Roosevelt went to try to recover from Polio. It actually influenced most of his presidency, and helped him create all the programs for the New Deal. He opened a rehabilitation center there that is still in operation today.


Our biggest excitement was getting a bookcase. We sorely needed one. Dos, our cat, jumped on one of the shelves and it broke. We decided that we would go to Office Max to get really sturdy shelves (thank you Dad for the suggestion) and we bought three thinking that it would give us extra room to grow. Well, we put the shelves together and got our books together and they were stacked in piles and piles. Soon our bookcase was full except for one shelf. I put some pictures of us on the open shelf and it makes the shelves feel like ours. Daniel kept looking at the bookcases that day admiring them. He felt all grown up (I don't know if that is because he put the bookcases together or because he had that many books).