Wandering Soul Diaries: Queen Bess

The car has been officially christened...I told the girls one freezing morning that our car needed a name. I told em it should be Bess and I received no complaints...except Bean decided she needed to be royalty. So she calls her Queen Bess. I figured that we spend so much time in the car that we needed to give her a proper name. She is a part of the family y'know. Man on these cold mornings she sputters trying to start up and the radio screen really lags. The girls were funny, Bear runs up to me and says, "Jill a bird pooped on Bess! She's all dirty now, we have to take her to car-wash RIGHT AWAY." Then Bean tells me in the car later, "Jill, Bess goes suuuuper fast, doesn't she?" They've gotten so into it, it's adorable.

Since we've gotten our kitchen semi-back I'm back into cooking and baking again, man does it feel nice. There is the perfect window of time between picking up Bean and picking up Bear that I can get all the dinner fixings and kitchen chores done. Bean loves playing with the carpenters kids when they come over, so that and play dough kept her entertained for a while. I made cheesy mac for the girls...well I didn't realize that the shredded cheese had spices in it...so they didn't eat it. I apparently failed again on dinner. OH..but I did cook chicken...for the first time in I dunno...2 years? Apparently it turned out well. Not too shabby for a semi vegan.

Since the weather has been so cold Bear's ski lessons were cancelled again today. Everyday we pass the Kenai visitors center and I've always wanted to go in and check it out. So y'know what? Today we did. I figured we had nothing else to do except go on an adventure. I literally had to drag the girls out they enjoyed it so much! Right in the front was the gift shop and they wanted more than anything to buy something, but I convinced them otherwise. There was large open space with art hanging on the walls and a smaller back room that housed various exhibits. It wasn't organized the best and most of the exhibits were under construction. However, the artifacts that they did have were a neat glimpse into life homesteading in Alaska. I love love love old timey tins and they had quite the nice collection. I had to pretend that I knew what everything was and sound smart for the girls every time they asked me what something was. You get good at fudging details when you're a nanny. Yes of course they only wore slippers back in the old days, yup that's a tooth from a momma bear, no I don't know why that's here...no.. museums are for our eyes and not our hands...and on it goes.:)

There was a little model of the "famous" church here in Kenai and the girls were stunned that there was a larger scale version just around the corner. In old town Kenai there are some neat historical buildings and access to the water. Well the sun was just starting to set so I took the girls to climb up on the snow banks and look out on the water and watch the sunset. I was kind of distracted making sure they didn't fall so my photography isn't the best. We came home and D and J both came home earlier than expected, so we enjoyed dinner as a family together.