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3 feet of pure awesomeness

I can't remember the last time we've had this much snow. It snowed 48 hours straight, and now we have between 2-3 feet.

The logical conclusion to having this much snow, is obviously jumping off our barn roof into the drifts.

Emily's friend Hannah came over to join in the fun.

Hannah, me, and Anna sliding along with the avalanche:

And the graceful landing.

After that we went sledding down our driveway, which is more like a bobsled run at the moment, and made a rather large snowman named Larry. Pictures soon to come.

You Look Funny

"It is an immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves." -Katherine Mansfield Even while you look too thin...

Even while your hair is graying...
Even if your nose is far too large...

Just Laugh.

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is campatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutual weirdness and call it love." -author unknown

a little potato with your salt?

Meal planning is not my forte. I make dinner every Thursday night. And most Thursdays roll around without my having planned anything. Like this morning. I was thinking potatoey thoughts, probably because we had some on hand, so I looked up "potato casserole" on foodnetwork.com. I found a promising dish with the simple ingredients of potatoes and cheese. Feeling adventurous and thinking culinary thoughts, I made some changes to the recipe to spice it up (and to substitute for what we didn't have). Cream of chicken instead of cream of celery, less sour cream, more cheese, corn flakes instead of potato chips...etc. I started extra early and rocked out to TobyMac's new cd as I grated potato and cooked chicken (something substantial to add in).

Finally it was dinner time: the casserole came out smelling devine. I heaped my darling family's plates with large spoonfuls of casserole yumminess. And then I took a bite. It tasted like...salt. I took another bite just to make sure: yup, it tasted like salt, with a hint of potato and a whole lot of corn flakes on the side. My dreams of becoming the next Food Network Star vanished before my eyes. Paula Dean had deceived me. Or maybe it was just that I forgot to consider the salt I put into the cooking chicken, and the salt in the cream of chicken soup, and the salt in the extra cheese while I was pouring in what the recipe called for. Thank goodness we had loads of delicious home-made applesauce to eat.

And I'm sure the dogs enjoyed their well-seasoned dinner.

Dorritos - House Rules

One of the best Super Bowl commercials

Hello Winter Sky

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

~Thomas à Kempis