Happy 11th Birthday Carter

January 21, 2010 my little man turned 11. How does eleven years go by so fast? He is gaining on me in height, has feet bigger than mine and stronger in his opinions and physical strength. He is begining to prefer friend time over family time. I suppose this is the nature of things yet not easy for this mom to embrace. I love this kiddo.

Snow and more snow

Will the snow ever melt? An entire week off from school. The kids have now had three full weeks of Christmas holiday. We have had lots of fun, but I think everyone is ready to get back into the routine of things. Lili has started asking when she gets to have dance class again and when she can go to school. I am pretty sure that Carter would quit tomorrow if he could and be a farmer or professional tv viewer

Artwork by Carter

Happy 2010

Santa brought the Tony Hawk game for the Wii

Love Lili's face in this picture



How funny. Mom bought me the Betty Crocker cookbook that has Ethel's Sugar Cookie recipe. When I was a little girl I attempted to make Ethel's cookies many times without good results. Once when coming home from work at 1:00 a.m. and finding her new cookie pans in the snow with dog scratches on them (dog scratching off the burnt cookie-pans in front yard due to smoking from being burned) she had it. She tore the page out of the cookbook and I have never let her live it down.