wind advisory

i was in the mood for cookies the other night, so i made myself some chocolate chocoate chip ones... very yummy. jay got me a "cookie bible" for christmas, so i thought i'd use it.. i made him some peanut butter ones last week.. it was my turn.. so i made a point to put a baggie of them in my purse for work, but in the process for locating my keys i left them on the futon.... :( no cookies for erica on the drive. what a drag. oh well.

but we week has been pretty good otherwise. we're all feeling better now. i just wish the weather would make up it's mind. give us a winter for heaven's sake... stop with this pseudo spring crap... it was super cold the past 2 days, and now it's heavy wind and rain...
although or snow blower doesn't seem to run when there's snow on the ground so we shoveled this last time. grandpa fiddled with it, andit hasn't been right since... he meant well.. lol... perhaps we can catch an end of season sale in the near future for a new one... i'm not holding my breath. i grew up shoveling and never thought anything of owning a snow blower, except that only a handful in the 'Ham had them.... the ones with the money.i don't think i knew anyone with a snowblower... the funnng is that out here... everyone has one... ours is like 20 years old, so don't think that we have loads of money... ours is third hand in jays family... it was on the way to the dump when we got our house...

so here are a couple of pictures i took on monday.. the first of the year. have a great week!

just had to share this....

not that i'm really complaing... but what happened to the winter?? lol.... i don't mind the snow or even the cold (around 30 degrees) per se, but i do mind the bitter cold that we had last year... i recently heard som comedy by Lewis Black, and the title of the section was the coldest winter ever... at somepoint during this he commented, "where the f*** is global warming when you need it!?"... well i guess here it is lew... lol

sometimes life just gets in the way

i love catching up on the blog and being able to type for you all, but life has been crazy lately.... we've all been sick, but finally we're feeling better.. not 100% yet, but getting close... i finally got a nights sleep where my coughing didn't wake me up... evan's woke me up, but that's a different story.

i realized the other day that i dont' really have any recent pictures of us to post... didn't take much if any over christmas... we did video christmas this year tho. who wants pictures of people blowing their noses all the time... it's just not attractive, so you all will have to wait a little bit, but then i promise i'll get some pictures up for you.

happy new year

what a way to start off the year.... being sick since before christmas, and then a snow storm, and there's plenty more snow on the way. and it's not just me who's sick.. evan, jason, and everyone at day care too! so i've made dr's appointments for us.. well i'm still waiting to hear from evan's dr., but jay's at teh dr's right now, and i have an appt for 11:15... evan fell asleep, so that's how i'm able to be online :)... it's hard to get online these days when you have to fight over the computer with the 2 year old. he likes to check his email... lol... by this i mean you open a webpage, and he scrolls down the page using the mouse. it's cute. when you open the browser he says thank you, and when he gets to the bottom of the page he says "uh oh, help me" and we put it back at the top and he starts again.

the snow today is very wet and heavy... jay tried to snow blow the driveway, but our snowbloer, being old and well used, didn't want anything to do with it and said, no way... i'm gonna clog myself... so thankfully our neighbor has a new model that just threw the snow crap into oblivion... jay come in after 15 minutes... and says "i want a new snow blower" i said, "maybe next year" it usually takes him way longer than 15 minutes to do the driveway and the side walk with our snow blower b/c it's slow... oh well, it was free, and i'm just grateful that i didn't have to shovel it. most tiems i don'tmind shoveling, but the heavy crap sucks....

umass closed it's doors today! yay! and jay had a snow day too! double yay! so i called my 1 client our in barre where i was going today, and said i wasn't gonna make it out today... even though the roads aren't that bad around here, but i'm sick and umass is closed so that's a free day for me!

that's all for now..

almost christmas

there's the weather report this week... not so bad really... and it's hard to see but on christmas they're saying snow and rain.. wooo! picking up that shit sucks.. we have this crfappy frozen snow all over the place out here... the ice is super treacherous. lol.. after dropping off evan at daycare, i got stuck on her ice... her entire giant driveway was covered... thankfully melly came out and helped me push. jason said that when i went to pick up evan that matt was putting sand down... perhaps i preempted that move.. but melly siad she got stuck on the ice twice the other day... lol

so it's almost christmas. i find it hard to believe... and that this year has gone way too fast. they time flies when your having fun.. or i also find that it often flies as you get older. that's okay, it's all good. our christmas shopping is complete.. wait.. except i gotta buy a little $5 thing for teh gift swap at daycare tomorrow... i'll get soemthing later when i'm out. i need to get soemthing for said daycare provider too. something simple... perhaps a amaryllis or something. i don't know.. wait! a chia pet :) that's it... i'll get her one of those, but it'll be from evan of course...

we haven't put out any presents yet. we're afraid that evan may decide to open them all up, so we're waiting. evan got a bunch of books and clothes from us that we colelcted over the last 6 months... i htink we only got him like 2 small toys... oh well that's what other people are for.

we shipped out a box to my mom's with their stuff in it... only one gift is missing, and it's my nephew's... it's not done, and i'm almost positive his mom wouldn't appreciate a gift loaded with safety pins :) in the spirit of the season here's a picture of it, so you can atleast see what it looks like...
and for anyone we forgot to send a Christmas card... here's the photo from that too:


so that's it for this post i guess... not tha interesting, i apologize... but everyone out there i wish : Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukuh, happy yule, happy solstice, happy kwanzaa, happy new year, and any other holiday in the next couple weeks that i forgot... (i'm not afraid to say the C-word!)

holy cold!

i can't *believe* how cold it is right now... and it's not even offically winter yet... the weather guy this morning said it was like -2 out out... and the forecast doesnt look any better... the bitter cold is the one thing that sespise about about winter... the snow i like... i've always liked... mom and i made a killer snowman back in 97 during the blizzard on april fools day... i have a picture somewhere... it ended up taller than us... (not short jokes!) when i was a kid i used to wear glasses., and when i would go sledding across the street (we were definaly spoiled with that) i would put them in my pocket. well one time i couldn't find my glasses. i'm sure i wsa in trouble but honestly i can't remember... but i do remember finding them like 5 years later smooshed into the dirt on the side of the hill that faced our house. still intact, but the lens were scratched... not surprised due to all teh sledding that occured there. and the fact that we would go sledding until the sleds wouldn't go anymore... there would be to patches of snow left and we would go sledding... there would be more leaves than snow and we would be out there. that hill was great.. there were so many options gor snow paths, and we even created a few.

the best side of the hill was the most dangerous, and in order to sled safely here you couldn't sled alone, for teh street was at the bottom and across the street was the beach. one person would stand at the bottom of the hill to watch traffic. and the other wo9uld manage to climb to the top and finally make it after several attempts at falling down because the hill was steep. when ready adn traffic all clear the the traffic controller would give the go-ahead.. and off you went.. and unless you rolled off your sled at the bottom (there was a 5 ft strech before the road) you would cross the street and stop on the otehr side just shy of going in the water. lol... thank goodness for that pole and wire "fence" they had down there... it saved christine form swimming several times... defiantly good times...

there was one time christine and i walked the back way (through the woods and across cranberry bogs) to the golf course to go sledding.. see we didn't have cars or our liscenses so we had to walk, but we had snow tubes... and there was this great hill in there we had to go one.. it was proabably a good mile to get there... the slide downt he hill was priceless.. it's was amazing...

we're at the top.. christine goes first... weeeeee... it was so fast!!! sweet! so she's down there about 30 ft from the bottom of the hill laughing her head off... so i sit on my tube and shout "i'm coming down!".... she *tries* to get up.... she says "wait! it's all ice.. i can't get up" (or something like that) but it's too late i'm on my way. she's holding onto her tube, and i go flying straight into her... and we both go flying... how far i went i don't remember.. but i'm sure this is the *only* time this happened... it was hilaroius... we were both okay and laughing hysterically. after being able to catch our breaths from laughing we *tried* to get up.. we were stuck.. the ice seemed to streach way beyond where we ended up and i remember it took us a while and several times of falling down to get off the ice. it was good times... and one of the more enjoyable times i spent with my sister growing up... this memory has amazingly managed to stay in my brain all these years.. and many memories have slipped my mind.. but this one will stay.

i only now realize how spolied we were to have such great sleeding grounds across the street. we have no hills nearby for evan to go sledding on. the neighbor has a "slope" in her yard.. lol.. it's not even a hill... the nearest hill is at the school.. which we'd have to drive to.. when he's older though he'll be able to walk, so until then we're on a hunt for the best little hill to drive to....

hmmmm....

so after i put up my little map to keep track of people who visit my site.. i've discovered i have a lurker who live in the area of southern kansas.... it could be pan-handle OK i suppose.... but i don't think so

i'm just curious who else is out there...