Gray and White and Winter All Around



Last Friday Little Miss and I and my mom stopped in to see the Happy Man's widow, Shirley.  He used to bring us his special Polish nut bread every Christmas, and when he died, I got the recipe from her and make it for our family.  It's yummy, though it uses 10 egg yolks... and we end up eating excessive amounts of French toast to use up the whites.  Anyway, she lost everything in the tornado, including the Kolatch recipe, so we brought her a loaf.  It was good to see her, and Cecily was relatively well behaved while we were there.   Cecily and I went Christmas shopping afterwards...  she picked out a few of her presents...  good thing she has no idea what's going on.  *grin*

 

On Saturday we played in the snow!  We had a great time once she got over the fact that she couldn't wear her brown boots outside.  (I bought you snow boots, you are going to wear them! hehe.) 

I helpin Daddy.



 King Queen of the Hill.

 It was a little too deep for her to wander in easily...

 We made a snowman, but apparently I didn't take a picture of him.  She likes to make sure that he is still outside the window every morning. 

We decided to have my siblings over for pizza that evening.  Pretty spur of the moment.  It was fun.  Little miss was wild.  I think they all still like her/ us.

One morning somebody found the window crayons that I bought to decorate Nathan and Shelly's car.  So we drew pictures on the front door. 

Tuesday was my 29th birthday.  Usually I love my birthday....  but for whatever reason I felt like I got up on the wrong side of the bed all day... I'll blame the hormones (ah, how I love a scapegoat).  We went grocery shopping and I got Jimmy John's for lunch ( Cecily got "Pepperfries"...and a shake from McD's...).  Then we spent the afternoon at the farm.  Little miss got a sled ride from Tate and she got to see the three cows that escaped a trip to the locker.  Bob joined us for supper and cake and presents after work.

So I thought my car has been sounding different off and on lately, but not in a describable way, and not when Bob drove it.... sooo... yeah.  We were on the way home and it was doing it again, only this time the car wasn't heating up and at one point the lights dimmed all the way down and it sounded like the engine was slowing down.  And then the temperature gauge went all the way up.  (Why yes, my Dad did teach me to watch my gauges.)  I pulled in at Tom and Carol's to wait for Bob since he was following me home.  They are so great... not only were they unfazed by Cecily and I knocking on the door at 9 at night, Tom went out in the cold with Bob to help figure out what the problem was, and Carol entertained a tired little girl in the house.  And, he lined someone up to come replace my water pump tomorrow.  Makes me think of Proverbs 17:17.

Anyway, not the best birthday I've ever had.  However, we are very glad we did not take my car to Athens.  And that Bob just happened to be following me.  And that it happened where it did.  And that I really don't need to go anywhere the rest of the week.  I just feel like a 50's housewife- have to ask Bob for the car... haha.  Or something.  Little miss and I didn't go to church tonight though, because Bob was working late and I didn't think about getting a ride until it would have been too late.  Ah well, thankfully we can listen online.      

Blessings.