Museum of Science and Industry

Today Jim, Kyle, Beth, and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry. We watched two IMAX movies: the first one was about the Hubble Space Telescope and the second was a story about flying. The first one was really good.

But the coolest thing we did today was....... dissect a cow eyeball!!!

Each one of us got one and the instructor told us what to do. It was actually very easy to do. Lots of things came back as the instructor was asking us about the eye. Kyle even got the question of how many muscle hold our eye. (6 in case you are wondering) I was glad the kids handled it well..especially Beth...she hates studying the human body so this was BIG. And know what else! It was FREE!!

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Well, we have been busy with school and shoveling snow and basketball.

Wow, I am sick of snow... the blizzard was something. Glad that we were all inside for the worst of it, all of us except my husband. He had to work a 24 hour shift that day... not the best.. but they made it through okay. I was most concerned about his drive up here at 7-8 am. You know that lots of snow already down on the ground and still falling isn't a great combo for an hour drive back!

The kids are doing well in school this year. It has been hard to get back on schedule.. but I think that is mostly me having a hard time with it. I don't really know why, but it just seemed so hard to stay focused. Leader with a poor focus=followers with poor focus. We have managed to stay on task today.. YEAH!

We took a trip to Nebraska to see Kyle's basketball tournament. WOW! Did they ever do a great job!!! The actually brought home the 2nd place trophy! Now to make this even more amazing is last year (same tournament) they lost ALL the games. Now, to make this even MORE amazing is that there were only 5 players on the team and well, you have to have 5 players. So, after playing lots of games (4 in about 3 hours) they got to the championship game. The were really close in that game too, but they had replacement players and there were on their third game against our 5th. The better you are the less you have to play.... that's how it works. We just had our 1st home game and it was great too! They won this game against a team they have played several times, but NEVER beat! Close game 46-44! Our team seems to love close matches! Drives me crazy!! lol

So, that's it for now. Have a blessed day/week.