Happenings

What is happening!? What does this mean?!?

I've been trying to get the self-cleaning oven system going and instead I get this message! I've checked the owners manual and it doesn't say anything about what to do if  'E 1 -F5-' should appear on the digital display. Needless to say, my oven is not clean. My guests will arrive on Thanksgiving afternoon with the smell of burnt pizza in the air. Dang it!!

Then if that wasn't trouble enough, I found a sink hole in my cornbread.

Just to give you a little background, I've been dealing with sink hole issues at work. I know it sounds strange, but trust me, you do not want to deal with sink holes -- they're a nuisance I tell you. A nuisance. And then, when one appears at home in your baked goods, it's particularly alarming. I've never seen cornbread do this before, so lets hope my stuffing comes out okay.

The girls are home from school this week enjoying their time with each other, and the computer. I think they've been in their jammie-jams for the entire time.

While the girls busy themselves with computer games {all learning games I can assure you -- aside from Webkinz which they do enjoy from time to time} I'm searching through new and old Sunset Magazines and blogs for recipes.

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm off to clean my oven, tend to numerous sink holes, and peel several pounds of potatoes and yams.

Snow Days

The forecast? Possible snow in Seattle. Not a blizzard or anything like that, just a little dusting to change the scenery.

I do hope it snows because I love how snow has a way of calming the city -- the cacophony of city living is muted, replaced by cars softly crunching down the road. Listen carefully and you'll hear the neighbor shoveling a walkway -- it almost sounds like an ice skater's skate cutting into the ice just before leaping into a triple Lutz. 

All this talk of snow has me thinking about my girls playing in the snow when they were a wee bit younger. Here's a picture from 2007 of Sammy proudly displaying her snow creations.

This next image just melts my heart. This is Alex seeing snow for the very first time. She's actually watching Sammy make a snow family.

While I'm typing this post, Alex said, "Wow, how old were you back then? You're wearing the same bathrobe that you're wearing right now."  That Alex never misses anything.

Jon's been asking me what I want for Christmas so you better believe 'bathrobe' will be at the top of my list. How embarrassing. 

Here are more snow day images...





 

I just love this image of Sammy because it says, "I love it out here in the snow, but I'm cold and my face is frozen. How do I stop smiling?"

My kids have grown so much since these pictures were taken, and I can't believe it. Where did the time go? But the one thing that hasn't changed is... they still enjoy eating snow. I'm glad some things haven't changed.