Life from where we are

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

I was making tiramisu. I dropped the whole dang thing of baking chocolate! Brand new container! First words (after I said "Oh sh*t" ) outta my mouth were: "Get me my camera, then the vacuum cleaner"

Last night we went to Mark & Dani's for Popster's birthday. She made him his favorite meal...spaghetti & meatballs.      He got a chinese lesson from Miss LiLi Then she read us the Polar Express without missing one word,,,,smarty pants! In case you are wondering she has the tape playing but is able to read without it distracting her???? Then we had a spelling test on christmas words ................then came presents ............& finally cake & ice cream

I have been very busy this past week trying to finish up christmas presents This is a "hint" of what I am up to One of Popster's kids who used to ride on his bus is now in her first year of medical school. However she never fails every year to stop his bus to give him a christmas present. This year there was one for each of us....homemade handwarmers & the makings fotr hot chocolate.  So sweet!

........wish Popster a happy birthday!

.......there isn't any snow yet ...............I take pictures............. ...............of the sky and....... ............dead things!

so we were able to get out this morning for a nice long walk Somebody built a "rockman"

 Molly went to the beauty parlor  Can you just feel the "tude"

 One picture ......three ways      This is the indian carving who............ ......now has a friend  I wanted this for my yard.....Popster wouldn't carry it back for me

 We were getting ready to go over to Mark & Dani's this afternoon when Popster & I had the following conversation Popster:   "Didn't I have a nice  brown corduroy hat?"  "Where is it?" Me:   "You mean the one you left on the plane 3 years ago?" (We've had this same conversation every winter since!) Me:   "Wear the other hat you have" Popster:   "I don't like that one" Anyhow we stopped at the store to buy him a new hat ....the one one in the picture above(the one I liked) along with the one pictured below(the one he liked) Back in the car he told me to take the tag off the hat so he could wear it, so naturally I picked the one I liked.  After he put it on we had another "gem" of a conversation Me:   "Don't you have a hat just like that at home?" Popster:   "How would I know" Me:  "You mean you don't know what the hat at home looks like?" Popster:...