Samantha starts off this day is the right spirit. I think it was very thoughtful of her to sleep through the night, from 8pm to 6am this morning. My brain doesn't know what to do with an uninterrupted night's sleep. It is responding by clamoring for more sleep. Not going to get it, sorry. She looked like she might sleep in bed with us for a few moments, but alas, not this time. She normally is very hyper when she is in bed with us, but this time she actually put her head down for a few seconds. Now she is banging on the stereo door.

It is 18 degrees (F) outside and too cold even for Ella to go play. I don't really want Sam out in it either. I think this may be a day when I take Ella by myself to the sheepfold. She is hysterically funny to watch bounding through the snow. She gets a snow mustache when she puts her head in the snow that is just clownish.