Snow Business

Okay, this isn't our house. Friends are away and asked John to remove the snow as needed. (Darn city rules about clean sidewalks!) Do you believe the amount of snow?!?!?!

And, since there's no mailbox by the road, it's difficult to tell the snow bank is SIX FEET TALL!

What are your kids doing?

Mine are making a happy mess on the kitchen table. Thanks to this post, I was inspired. I don't know how much will exist to be put away later today, but fun is being had.

We've got an entire rainbow of colors! And I think a bakery is being opened: "Allie's Agile Bakery" What do you think?

Happy Birthday to ME!

I don't know what could pass as a good birthday present at *your* home, but this greeted me yesterday afternoon:




Yeah, I know what you're thinking: "Where's the really romantic husband that thought *that* was a good gift?" Here he is!

(and, I am THRILLED with this mailbox - I've tolerated, with thinly veiled disgust, the previous mailbox that was here when we moved in three and a half years ago)

Thank you sweetie!

For my loyal reader

yep, reader. I'm sure that there's only one. I guess I spend too much time reading other people's blogs and not thinking about my own. Or, I just don't have much important to say.

So, I'll leave you with this thought.

Spaghetti, with tomato sauce is a really dumb thing to give to two-year olds. (As any mom would tell you......)

He does have scary hair....

After I discovered a paper mask of Junie B. Jones in my printer.....

Becca: You know Mom doesn't like Junie B.

Jess (to Becca): No, Mom said we can't be scary things for Hallowe'en. You know, like, Einstein.


(you decide who she *really* meant!)

Happy Birthday to Mary!

Now, my four year old is five. And, yes, she *IS* a princess. And, in her words, as we prepared to go to a live Cinderella play:


"You look just like a maid!"


(As all moms should look, I guess, when escorting Snow White)






(I guess I should be thankful, as John pointed out, at least she didn't say "Old Maid.")

Nothing beats a box

Yep. Whenever the UPS guy shows up with a box, especially one filled with the degradable packing peanuts, this never fails to happen. What's new is Christopher getting into the act.

(Yes, Mary is wearing a swimsuit; Christopher's in just a diaper.)