My Princesses and my Blizzard-Bringer

The girls were in a Missoula Children's Theatre play last week: so. fun.


They all did a great job. The play was THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA. Soni was the princess, Ani was a phony princess and Bryni was a blizzard-bringer.


We all had a wonderful week - busy, crazy, hectic and so so worth it for these sweet smiles.

S'no Day Like a Snow Day

My kiddos playing in the snow. A nice, warm winter memory.

They're just so beautiful to me that it almost hurts. I know that these moments of childhood with them are fleeting, numbered.

How to hold on? How to prolong? There's no holding on, no prolonging. Only savoring.

Love this Poem

I heard this poem on NPR the other day. Just lovely.

French Toast
by Anya Krugovoy Silver

Pain perdu: lost bread. Thick slices sunk in milk,

fringed with crisp lace of browned egg and scattered sugar.

Like spongiest challah, dipped in foaming cream

and frothy egg, richness drenching every yeasted

crevice and bubble, that's how sodden with luck

I felt when we fell in love. Now, at forty,

I remember that "lost bread" means bread that's gone

stale, leftover heels and crusts, too dry for simple

jam and butter. Still, week-old bread makes the best

French toast, soaks up milk as greedily as I turn

toward you under goose down after ten years

of marriage, craving, still, that sweet white immersion.

Winter Weekend

What a great weekend. Warming our tootsies by the fireplace.


Checking out the wildlife in the backyard.


Enjoying the sparkly-ness on the mantle...


...and the tree.

I feel so blessed to have this time with my family. My daughters are growing up so fast. These are the good old days of my life.

Toasty

We're enjoying a toasty day in by the fire. Ahhhh...

Happy Thanksgiving!

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So Thankful

Mmmmm... Feeling so thankful for all my many blessings. For my husband, my babies, my kitty, for you. For my dear family, my precious friends, my warm home. For my higher power who grants me serenity and joy. So thankful.

Photo credits:1. Squash on Sill, 2. Thanksgiving cooking-0686, 3. Rastus the Nutcracker, 4. Some like it hot, 5. Naps, 6. gratitude 8/30, 7. three, 8. joining, 9. 21 :: 30

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