My little guy in his snow fort with a load of snowballs at the ready, waiting for his mom and sister to turn their backs for just a second!
Like much of the country, we were clobbered by a wicked snow storm today. The snow fell fast and furious, the wind whipped all around, and we were snowed in completely. I loved every minute of it! The kids and I baked cookies and had them for lunch with green (food coloring) Christmas milk. Tonight we'll have cocoa and popcorn - the kids will watch The Grinch and my husband and I will watch The Bishop's Wife (heard it's good for Christmas).
The day reminded me of 2 of my wintry quotes from my collection:
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside, candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly out.
- Thomas De Quincey
The smell of buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice, talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlor firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, the twitter of sleepy canaries.
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
I wish you all a cozy evening!
3 comments:
Hi Alison, so far I've been playing the Weepies cd "Say I am You" a lot - it's perfect music when you are on your sixth batch of cookies, burned out, and will flip if you hear one more Christmas Carol...not that I am the Grinch but you know the mood, house full of kids, snowbound, etc. Anyway, will let you know what I think of the other one that I have interlibrary loaned...
by the way - excellent snow fort :)
Hi Susan,
I was so dissapointed to find that my library system doesn't have any Weepies. After things settle down around here I'll treat myself to "Say I am You." Don't you just love the artwork on all their cd covers?
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