Monday- Apres Blizzard

Hi!

Last week the computer got some kind of virus, where a bunch of fake links showed up and for some reason I couldn't get to the part where I compose a post on blogger.  So, I didn't!

We got a blizzard yesterday!  It snowed and snowed and the kids had a nice day of taking turns playing Roblox and Minecraft on the computer.  We finally went outside about 7pm and the kids built a couple forts which  have since been blown over with snow.  There's an hour delay for school, but it's still snowing! Here's HH with the snow thrower.

Here's the front driveway.

I read a book by Laurie David, called "The Family Dinner", which I got from the library.  It talks about spending more time with your family at the dinner table.  So, this weekend, we did that!  Saturday everybody helped with cooking (DD made dessert (from another library book The Ultimate Children's Cookbook), DS made spicy potatoes (from the library book "You Can Cook" oops we checked that one out too, but the recipe came from the other Ultimate Cookbook!), HH cooked some ham and I made pizza). We set the table, lit candles, talked, ate, read rhymes from "The Real Mother Goose" and even sat thru dessert!  The last 2 dinners at home, we'd missed DS because he was sick on Wed. and Thurs. he didn't want to eat.  Yesterday we again lit the candles and sat thru dinner & dessert.  A few years ago, my MIL gave us a candle with numbers on it to count the days to Christmas.  You light it and the numbers burn away.  I remember we really enjoyed it!  So, this kinda works too.  The candles are nice to have when the days are so short.  Usually after dinner we are rushed to watch the news at 6, and we eat dessert in front of the tv.  I'm not sure if I'll keep this up thru the week, but I'd like to do it on the weekends so at least we'll have some good weekend meals and times!

  Have I worked on any projects lately?  Well, I put a new shelf in the pantry.  

I guess I've never shown the inside before, but I only had the bottom two big shelves (plus the bottom) and the little upper one.  I added the smaller second one from the top so my good dishes aren't piled up too high on top of my others. And I put in cup hooks for the tea cups.

I also did a more permanent closet rod in the master bedroom.  Along with putting up the curtain rod and the header for the closet door space.

Now I need to do some drywall!

DD decided to put some more ornaments of the tree.  Here it is all awesome with google+!

I must get out and take some more pictures of all the snow today!  Have a great week! :-)