A day in my life

Collin has the Be Prepared motto down pat - who knows when you might need an air soft rifle or a book - or two, in the bathroom?

Grace's room has everything in place. If I switched one of these animals around she would know it immediately when she entered her room. She spends countless hours arranging, and rearranging her room . . .

V Day

"Marriage is falling in love over and over, with the same person."

That is really true. I do fall in love with Jon over and over. On Valentines Day we waited and waited for him to get home and finally started dinner without him. I knew he was getting me some of these:

But he totally surprised me by also bringing home a fab dessert we tried this weekend - Lemoncello Cream Torte from The Cheesecake Factory:

(Gee, I wonder why I can't lose my gut!) I do love that he was so thoughtful on Valentines, but it's the other days of the year that count most. Just last week he brought these home for me:

. . . just because we had read her book, My Life in France, and thought I might like the recipes she talks about. Too bad we don't have any brains or foie gras on hand! We also had a great time the other day at Costco where Jon doesn't get to go too often because he spends at least $100. We laughed and held hands and browsed just like our dating days and fell in love again.

More Library Sightings

Don't you love the library?? Humor, science, Manga, action, adventure etc. await. Ours is the best because it is 'hoodville central. You might remember some earlier posts of library sightings. Here are the latest. I was using my phone and in my stealth mode, the quality isn't the best - usually I click the button right when I am turning away so they don't see me taking the picture. The one on the right is one from yesterday. I wish you could have seen the full effect of that 'do. The one below is a homeless, bald, Asian woman who keeps her head warm with a blond, curly wig. Don't you wish you lived in our 'hood??

Snow Day?

One of my favorite things about living in a "tropical" place is that the city literally shuts down at the mention of snow. The stores were CRAZY yesterday with people stocking up (soda and chips is being prepared?? Oh, for the Super Bowl. I get it). All the freeways are shut down, Jon's company is closed and our co-op got cancelled today. Not a flake of snow yet (definitely some ice - see Jons car coated in it?), but I guess we have to stay in our pjs, drink hot chocolate and watch movies all day. Darn!