a little snow and some football, cookies and chores

This afternoon during nap time, yes that includes me too, we had an unexpected visitor to our fair city.  That would be snow.  The kids were about as delighted as I was.  And cold whew it was and still is cold.  I had to explain that in North Dakota, it was a lot colder and there was a lot more snow.

we did make a few little snow balls, but mainly we just talked and walked and I got to carry little brother.  He was not to excited about walking around in this stuff.

There were chores to do and help provided was help indeed.  Folding and sorting and making sure Grandmama knew just whose was whose and when a sock found its mate.  All in all, more excitment than one would expect doing a load of laundry.

Inside after dinner, we, or rather the women of the house finished the cookie making and once they settled on the number of red hots per cookie - three -  ( and that is a good number too ) the production line got busy.

Lydia was in charge of rolling the cookie in sugar, and got very good at it too, notice the hands.  They are coated.  If sugar were absorbed through the skin, she would still be running around.

and Patt did a great job of turning of responsibility to the little ones and they did not disappoint - and I do like red hots and lots of sugar on molasses cookies.

After bath time, I read with Isaac, he is such a good listener, and appreciates my inflections and emphasis too.  The book is not about me for those of you who might have ideas.

Then Julianna came down and we watched some of the football games.  She is a great companion to watch a game with, understands nuances and picks up tendencies of a defensive coach very quickly, pointing our various schemes that Auburn was employing to keep South Carolina from being able to respond to their offense.