Saturday, January 25, 2014

Snippets!

It is amazing! It's snowing again! I kind of still love it as long as Den is here to help me deal with it...







Nails...love love love my new salon...appropriately called Polished! I opted for pale plus glitter for the next two weeks...then red for Valentine's Day!







Remember my new Uggs? Yesterday Uggs sent me another duplicate pair! By accident...lol! I just called them and they are baffled!





Negotiations this morning...Roxie really wanted Lucy's attention!






Den stepped in as mediator!





Just finished this...I just love Flavia de Luce...this series is exceptional!






Starting this...based on a fairy tale...oooooh!


Dinner...sushi and ice cream! Yum! We are staying in tonight and I love it!

Happy Saturday!

Friday, January 24, 2014

Tidbits!

I am finally shoveled out...and Den is home from his travels! He got home at 2 in the morning and is at work now! Wow! He spent most of yesterday in here! Whatever it is...it's pretty cool...I think it's a library of some kind!




Bought this...could not resist! The description says that this is the book you will want to give to all of your girl friends! Yum!



Want to make these for Super Bowl Day...this recipe is from one of my favorite blogs...iwashyoudry. Little teensie shrimps taco bites! Yum!



Did you know that yesterday was National Pie Day? I want to make this pie...now!
Another fave blog called Cookie Madness has this recipe and nine more! Double yum!
I think this is a lemon pie...my fave!


My new Uggs...love these!



Yummy new books to review...









Reading this...in spite of hating to not read books in a series in the order that they are written...I skipped two and hit this one...it's so good...but you have to love British books and quirky 11 year olds who are poor, live in a crumbling mansion, are motherless, have two weird older sisters and a damaged father. Oh...and a chicken for a pet...yep...a chicken!


Happy Friday!

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Brrrrr...Double Brrrrr...

Oh my it is cold...getting the mail has been quite a challenge! Den has been in Minnesota and Iowa all week in -20 degree weather. He has been at the state capitol...in Iowa...doing the things you do at the state capitol...lol...meeting and talking to representatives...and eating steak!



Lol...the girls and I are trying to stay warm. We are eating cereal and toast and soup and apples and a really good hard goat cheese. We are also sipping a yummy minty tea. I say we because Roxie dunked her entire head in my tea cup yesterday...

It's sort of a free for all here when Den is gone...when he is here...the girls sleep all night long in their own cozy heated beds...when Den is gone...they seem to jump on me all night long...probably because I fall asleep with all the lights on and the TV on...it's as though they are trying to wake me up to tell me to go to sleep properly!

This morning I woke up to both of them staring at me...one over my head and one in front of me...Roxie was kissing my face! Doesn't it look like they are in an important discussion here? Roxie is totally trying to make her point very clear! Lucy remains unconvinced!



Finished Ophelia...loved this book...it had no faults! I think it might be a series...it would make the most wonderful movie.



Just starting this...


Den is starting his flight home...Minnesota is one of the most difficult places to get to...when he is there he has hours of driving...flight changes...and exhaustion...but at least there is great steak!

Happy Thursday!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Over My Uggs!

I think it snowed all night long...really truly! It's breathtakingly beautiful outside and utterly freezing cold! When I walked outside yesterday...just to see the snow up close and feel the snow up close...the snow filled my Uggs...not venturing out today at all!

Finishing this...so good...it should be a new children's classic. If I was still teaching I would read it aloud to my class...in stages...they would beg and plead to hear just one more chapter...then I would have sent them to their seats to write their thoughts about Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy...and the Misery Bird and the ghosts and the owl and the wizards and the museum curator and the snow lions and the super glue...lol!




I am totally now in the mood for books with quirky British heroines of a tender age. So...enter Flavia de Luce! I love these books. I have the bottom one to review but I can't read books out of order and I can't remember if I read this one...I don't think I have so it us up next. If you have not read these books...oh my...they are truly wondrous. Flavia is my favorite quirky kind of character...misunderstood...just a bit annoying...precocious to a fault!






Making this today...this is Italian Wedding Soup and this recipe is from The Kitchn...
The meatballs I am making are going to be made from freshly ground turkey and I am adding chicken. I need to smell this chicken soup simmering away today!


Happy Snow Day To Me!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Massive Amounts Of Snow!!!

Oh my...it's really really cold here...tons of snow...I had a small window this morning before the snow started to zip to the grocery store and the pet store...we had nothing...the last can of organic grain free tremendously expensive kitty food did not meet the approval of my girls...what's not to love about Turducken? Turkey, duck, and whatever the en is. I am beginning to think that kitties are like fussy toddlers...every food has to pass their sniff test...Lucy and Roxie hate beef, and anything with fish unless the fish is a sardine...they might love Turducken now and will hate it tomorrow. I feel utterly rejected every time they walk away...literally turn their little Tonk noses up at their dinner. Roxie literally tries to bury any dinner she doesn't like. Sigh!



All I can hear are the snow trucks outside. Schools are closed, businesses are closing early and we are in for a long night.

From our upstairs hallway...this is all you can see...it's just white outside!



This is from an upstairs bedroom window...I can hear geese and birds constantly chatting and repositioning. I just fed everyone outside...suet blocks and seeds and nuts and tons of bread.


My work is done...lol...

Loving every single word of this book...Ophelia is precious...and the Marvelous Boy?
OMG...sweet and brave. He is called the Marvelous Boy because the wizards took away his name when he was chosen to battle the Snow Queen who in turn imprisoned him in the Museum. From what I have read so far he has been imprisoned for tons of years but he doesn't age. His hope right now is Ophelia...he desperately needs her help to save the world. Ophelia is nervous and undecided. It is such a lovely mesmerizing book. It would be a wonderful read aloud...




Ok...all done...I am off to a cup of hot minty tea and to nestle under a furry throw!
Bought lots of yummy hibernation foods...making Wedding Soup tomorrow...having a roasted potato for dinner! Yum!

Happy Reading!