Snow Pictures

As you can plainly see, we have a little bit of snow at our house and the weather people are promising more.  No matter how much it might rain later we will have a white Christmas up here at 500 feet.  This morning the squirrels were outside, running around in the snow, probably trying to find their old caches of sunflower seeds and when they couldn't dig down far enough to find them they decided to use intimidation instead.  They stood facing the house, staring at me as I looked out at them.  So I bundled up and bowed to their needs and went out and scattered some more birdseed, which is supposed to be for the birds but I am a realist and know that the squirrels will get the bulk of it.  They are sweet, though loud, little creatures, and I know they are just rodents with good PR, but I like them.

Christmas is coming and we are getting fat, let alone the goose.  Lots of cookies and goodies are on the kitchen counter and I love to bake at Christmas, so I will be making more.  My oldest daughter and her fabulous husband are here now and we are all tapping away on our laptops and humming Christmas songs and planning to bake today--french bread and more cookies.  More snow is coming, and so is another daughter and Christmas is only 2 days away.  This will be one for the weather record books, and for the personal record books, too.  How long has it been since I had so many of my children close at this time of year?  It's been almost two decades.  18 years.  We have all changed and not changed.  I am still Mom and my daughters are still little girls to me, even if they have children of their own and my eldest was offered a senior discount the other day, though she is still at least 10 years away from qualifying.  That daughter still has a sneeze just like mine and loves sweets, just like me, and is smart and funny.  Youngest daughter sounds exactly like me and is just as opinionated. We start out right where we left off, even if it was 2 1/2 years ago.  Oldest daughter and I went to Scotland in 2006 and we are enjoying remembering our favorite parts. We be taking many, many pictures to remember this event because it isn't likely to repeat itself soon.  I'll put them on another post, so you can see my girls with their Mom.

I'm trying to convince someone else to go outside and make a snowman with me to surprise my little grandson who will be here on Christmas Day, but so far there are no takers.  We are readers, writers, thinkers and not big action takers.  Fabulous Husband of Daughter was outside chopping and hauling wood this morning, being very useful and he has helped with dishes several times, so his action-taking is at a pretty high level, but I can't blame the rest of them--it's cold out there.  I hope all of you are managing to stay warm and cozy and have all your shopping done and plenty of food in the larder.  Enjoy the beauty of the snow--we don't get to see this much of it very often.  So far the lights have stayed on and we haven't had any adverse affects, so we can be pretty blithe about it.  Hope all is going well for you, too!