A little bit of everything.

My mother always taught me, if I didn't have anything nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all.

I hope that explains my silence over the past week or so.

But we did just enjoy a long, four day weekend. And our Monday ended up being really fun, so that's worth remembering.

We gathered with a bunch of families from church, we drove about an hour to a city where a Hyundai car factory was located. We had our "tour guide" arrange for us to have a guided tour of the Hyundai factory. Happily, there was another deluxe sledding hill only about fifteen minutes from the factory, so we sledded first, and then went on the tour. It was a lovely sort of day.











Korea cracks us up with it's controlled sledding hills. But now, I almost forget how to sled any other way. And maybe they are right? Maybe it's best to all line up at the top of a hill, sit down on your sled in your designated "go slot", and wait until the worker blows his whistle to let you know it's safe to go. I mean, what's wrong with that? Somehow I can't really picture it in America. But maybe it's just because no one has introduced it yet. Maybe it's my next great venture in life...

After a bit of sledding, we let the kids go crazy and partake in the few little "rides" that were there.



In case you can't tell, that would be George who picked this bungee jumping type activity, as his "I'm taking a break from sledding for a minute" carnival ride. What a guy! P.S. Henry kept his feet firmly planted on the ground during his "break from sledding".

After re-applying our lip gloss...

...and having a bit of our picnic lunch...


...it was time to move our party over to the Hyundai factory. I am SO glad this stop was put on our tour schedule. Who knew that watching the entire car assembly line from the stamping shop, to the welding shop, to the car parts assembly shop, could be so much fun? Honestly it was exhilarating. To see a car at the very end of the assembly line, actually drive off the assembly line and get parked against the wall with the other finished cars, nearly had me announced that we would be stopping off to buy a new Hyundai on our way home. I'm not sure who was most excited about the car tour, the children or me?! Thanks to our own sweet Jihyun Knudsen for being our girl on-the-scene in Korea, who gets us access to such fantastic opportunities. We're going to miss her, and all the fun excursions she leads us on!

So that's about it, my friends. The rest of my January days are filled with my ladies finding me at various points in the day, to ask where the camera is. In secret hope that it will break (and then I can get a new one!), I give it to them, and they go and take pictures of whatever it is that is entertaining them right at the moment...

(Grandpa, the cat is what Ruby spent her $5 from you on. She loves it.)

When George isn't busy talking to me, or someone else in this house, and he momentarily doesn't know what he should do, I tell him to read. Then he tells me he doesn't like to read. And then five seconds later, I'll find him, READING. In case you haven't heard about it, "audible.com" might change your life. It's changing George's, and it surely has changed mine. For George he can now "read" the books that he thought were too difficult. He follows along as the book is read to him. For me, it means multi-tasking while "reading"! It's the most amazing thing. I thought books and reading were gone for me for this period of time. But now I read while sewing and that's nearly a miracle.


And to wrap it all up, I give you Beauty and the Bee. I recently ordered these little yellow shoes, and yellow striped shirt, because I LOVE this shade of yellow right now. I would dress the whole family in it, if everyone would let me dress them. As soon as the box arrived, Ruby volunteered to try everything on for me. About five seconds later she was running down the hall to her room to look for her wings. Once those were found, she was running to the craft paper and rummaging for scissors. When I asked her what she was doing, she told me she was going to be a bee. The shoes and the shirt combined together had her buzzing around our house all afternoon long, asking me 2004 times, "What do bees eat?"








It was a buzzing good time! And that's the way we're rolling this January.