It's Been Awhile...

It has been two whole weeks since I last blogged! So unlike me! I have received the sweetest texts and e-mails wondering if all is well...I appreciate that so much.

The first week of January always sort of knocks my socks off it seems. Just getting back into the routine of the girls being in school, etc. after being out for over two weeks...that sort of thing. And this year, we have a thousand pound new baby (the horse!) to take care of everyday, so that has taken some getting used to.

Truth be told, though, there has been so much sadness already in this year, and I tend to avoid my blog (and the computer as a whole) when I am sad.
Out of respect for her family who is grieving so terribly right now, I will not say much, but I lost a very special Aunt...JoAnn Graham...just this past week. She was the person that I idolized...the kind of person I have always wanted to be when I grow up. She was an icon of our town. Everybody knew her, and if you knew her or even just knew of her, you loved her. She had a picture perfect life...she was absolutely beautiful, she had a husband that adored her and children who loved her, a beautiful home...just a perfectly beautiful life. She had a knack for gardening and collecting. And she shared ALL that she had with others. She has battled cancer for the past 5 1/2 years. This past Thursday, she went to be with Jesus. She loved life and even considered her struggle with cancer a beautiful part of her life. An amazing woman was she, and her legacy will live on and on and on. Her funeral service was the most beautiful I have ever attended. But it is still sad, and it still hurts. And I think that is why I have avoided blogging...because while life goes on, her life has ended. It is so hard to believe that she is gone, and still seems so very unreal.

I do want (and need) to catch up on my blogging. Honestly, I have taken very few pictures since the first of the year. The break from blogging has been kind of nice, but I really have missed it. I have to tell you the funniest thing...I walked into the bathroom to dry the girls off after their shower several nights ago...Lucy was sitting on the seat in the shower wiping a cut on her knee. I immediately asked if she had fallen in the shower, to which she so matter-of-factly answered...

"No ma'am, I was just shaving."

Excuse me? Shaving?

"Oh yes ma'am, I do it all the time."

Well, I do not really believe that she does it all the time. But apparantly this wasn't the first time it has happened. Can you say six going on sixtenn? Oh the horrors. I enjoyed them being out of school over Christmas break so much. I think ya'll know that my favorite days are days when the girls are at home with me all day (more specifically at home and in our pajamas all day!). And we had lots of those days over the holidays.
We made coffee filter snowflakes... And Macy decided to write a "newspaper" to chronicle the life of the Willcutts. She never fails to make me laugh! She even included a copyright...

Lucy is all into fancy writing, and she loves writing out Bible verses...

The girls found these batons on the dollar side of a local grocery store...

Can I say that they have played with these one dollar batons more than anything they got for Christmas? Isn't that just typical?

Lucy had safari day at school one day this week. They got to dress up in safari-type clothing and actually went on a safari at school. She was so excited about it!

Lucy is ALL into reading. I love it. She is just like Macy was, in that one minute she could not read, then the next minute, there is nothing she can't read. She reads ALL the time. Whether it be reading signs as we are riding down the road or books at home. She loves, loves, loves to read. She even gives me Phonics lessons on my Gain detergent bottles (notice the pink sharpie...the "long a" mark about the "A" and the the mark through the "I" because it is silent).

We have a holiday from school tomorrow...Lucy decided to build a fort in the living room to sleep in tonight. This child cracks me up. She even hung a flashlight from the "ceiling" so she could have a light in there. She is busy, busy, busy right now making sure it is just perfect!

So there's a brief catch-up post. I promise it won't be another two weeks until I blog again. I have missed it too much!