Finished "Pride and Prejudice"!

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fantastic! I'm a late-comer to Austen; this is the first book of hers I've read. Definitely surpassed my expectations.

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Igloo pictures

 

Cold weather and Super Colts

We've been hit with a string of cold days and snow.  On Friday, we got about 8 inches with very strong winds, which out here means BIG drifts!  Mick is literally building an igloo in the biggest one.  I think he's burning off nervous energy before the Colts take on the Saints in the Super Bowl later on this evening.  GO COLTS!!!

Frozen Tundra of Boone County

 

Point of clarification

<sounds of scuffling upstairs>

<daughter from upstairs> "Mom, Claire's grabbing from me!"

Me:  "Claire, stop grabbing from Brooke."

Claire:  "I'm not grabbing from Brooke.  I'm grabbing from Sarah!"

 

Oh.  Ok. 

Grant - 18 months

 

Happy New Year!!

Had a great day at Mom & Dad's today ringing in the new year! Chuck, Monica, Mason & Benjamin, the Bruces, and the Orrs were there. We ended up having a tremendous amount of food. I made Baked Ziti and Italian Bread, Mick made a gigantic salad, Kelly made spaghetti & meatballs, Monica made a pasta dish. We also had crackers, summer sausage & cheese, nachos & salsa, Chex Mix, Mom made cabbage (mainly for the guys -- ick!). We also had chocolate chunk cookies, brownies, thin mints and puppy chow. I only had one meal around 2:30 or 3:00, then snacked the rest of the day. Dad had the audacity to ask if anyone wanted ice cream around 8:00 pm. He didn't get any takers. :-D

The rest of the time we played games; Euchre, Yahtzee, Pictionary & Trivial Pursuit, guys vs. girls. For some reason, the girls had some pretty easy questions, unlike when we played on Christmas Eve and got some really hard ones! We ended up with 4 out of 6 pie pieces by the time we needed to stop.

Just a fun time of being together. Dad said they visited Grandma in the morning and she was doing pretty good. Actually, the past 2 days have been good days where she's smiled and talked more than usual. She's pretty amazing.

Tomorrow, we'll probably try to get some housework done and take down the Christmas decorations (our tree is completely dried out). Sunday is fellowship meal after church, but I don't know if we'll go to it or not. Then Mick has one more day off on Monday. We may head down to the Central Library ... we'll have to see. I predict Tuesday will be a little bumpy as we all try to get things back to normal. Not normal for long, though -- Courtney's birthday is on Friday! :-D The fun continues ...