Equal Time

It's been a busy weekend. Last week I posted about our favorite four year old grandson; today is all about equal time for our favorite four year old granddaughter! Lucy Ann spent the weekend with Nana and Paw Paw. While the highlight was a trip to the American Girl store, there were many fun times and precious moments with her. She chose fabric for Nana to make her a new dress for fall, conducted music classes for dolls and animals, had a playdate and dinner with her cousins, entertained us with endless fashion shows starring her doll, Sarah, and her mother's vintage Strawberry Shortcake dolls, colored pictures and created elaborate sticker-sheet artwork. Our home is quiet and still this morning; we miss our spirited, spunky and happy girl. Even Hannes is moping... he enjoyed his little buddy (especially when she was seated at the dinner table!).  Now that she's gone back to the Capital City I'd better get busy on that dress, there's nothing like busy hands to cure the lonelies!

Life is Good!

Snow Day!

It was forecast to be a "big one"; we don't get a lot of those here in North Carolina but when the word comes down, we know what it takes to prepare for heavy snow. We had the necessary bread and milk and waited, eagerly, for Wednesday's snow to arrive. I answered the phone around 9 that morning to hear my daughter report that they were calling for an even-worse-than-snow event in the Capital City: ice; warnings were issued to prepare for long-term power outages. She decided to pack up the children and the dog and make a run for it... back home; they arrived around noon and the snow began shortly thereafter.

It snowed, and sleeted, and snowed again, until 4:00 PM on Thursday. We ended up with about a foot of snow when it was all said and done. Luckily, we never experienced any power outages... only this picture postcard scenery. We don't take this weather for granted here, we know it will all too soon be a memory.

Gregory and Lynnleigh joined their cousins at Nana and PawPaw's late Thursday afternoon for some excellent sledding and an impromptu pot-luck supper together. There's nothing quite like reliving the magic of snow through the happy eyes and ecstatic shrieks of children at play on sleds; they had a blast... and so did we!

Life is Good!

One Word Wednesday

Architect~

Life is Good!