Travel Planning

Some people plan their gardens during the winter---
pouring over seed and flower catalogs.
I dream of getting away---far away.

This past week I put the finishing touches on
our March trip (a cruise to Honduras),
a deposit down on our June trip to Phoenix X and
have just started planning a cruise in November.

More snow is predicted for tomorrow,
I think I'll plan some excursions in France, Spain
and the Azores.

Snow Days!

Some years, St. Louis gets very little snow, but not this year.
Although it is still snowing, we have 6 inches, but part of the St. Louis area has over a foot!
Another unusual factor is this is our second snow in a week and a half. Last week's storm hadn't even melted yet.
Last week, we had 4 inches which is usually a pretty big amount for us.
Leah, Eli and Anna came over so we could watch Anna while Leah and Eli played in the snow.
Thanks to Facebook, I got a recipe for snow ice cream that did NOT include raw eggs like my recipe of long ago.
4 cups of snow, 1/2 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
We decided to make Grandpa's favorite "moose tracks".
We added peanut butter by the "glop" and chocolate chips.


Anna, Eli and Grandpa loved it.

Kim, my cousin of Facebook, made mint chip with mint flavoring instead of vanilla! That sounds great for today!

Christmas 2010

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In my continuous quest to try new technology, I put a book together of Christmas. . .it is not a GREAT book, but I am still learning. I intentionally did not include text. I think it will be more fun for various family members to write memories or stories. (This was written on my iPad another new technology for me that I love even if I can't SEE the album because I don't have Adobe Flash on my iPad)