Sunny and bitter cold

Just got back from church and boy is it cold out.... brrrrr. Leo heard it is supposed to warm up in a couple of days. Don't really know how it can get any colder but I guess it can and at least the sun is shinning today!
   I see where Carol Burnett is going to be on a new show tonight. I can hardly wait to watch it... I just bet it will be good.
    I finally got the tree decorated. I didn't put all the ornaments on I did last year but just enough to make it look decorated. I started to cry yesterday when decorating it so I got out of the room and this morning after I was ready for church I had some time to finish it up. So glad its finished and I have just enough ornaments and decorations up to make it look like  Christmas for the kids when and if they come over.... also have all the presents bought and wrapped.
   My very good friend died Friday. she got liver cancer and I only knew she was seeing the doctor for her liver since November and she is gone already. I saw her at church just 2 weeks ago and she never let on to me. she is the neighbor that just moved away after living next to us for over 20 years. She taught me a lot and now she is gone. I will miss her very much. Funny but I still pretend to myself she still lives next to me because its too hard to bear some days and now I will never see her again.... Life is hard sometimes isn't it.....
    I have been wanting to re learn how to play canasta and now I found a canasta game on aol and I am playing it all the time.... sure is fun and brings back the days when My mother and sisters and I used to play around our kitchen table.... you should try it..... you won't have my memories ( unless you are my sister) but it is a good card game and maybe you too have memories of playing it...
    Have a nice day and always keep a cheerful attitude if you possible can.... Sandra

little more snow

We  got a little more snow last night.... Now we are hoping for another nice day so the streets melt again. Yesterday I went to the drug store and the streets were all nice and cleared already... must have been the salt as it was only around 30 at the highest I guess. It was a nice day but I don't see any snowmen around here yet.   I wish someone around here besides me would try and make one... I love snowmen don't you? When the kids were all home we always had a snowman if the snow was packy... sure do miss those days.
   I finally got all my presents wrapped yesterday. Now I should put the ornaments on the tree this week end I suppose... I'm not going to go all out but I will get it done. I put everything in the same big box last year so that will be easy. Glad I did that. I have so many boxes of decorations I will not use this year.... I have enough for 3 houses I bet... One of these days I will go through them and see what I can give away... so many memories though that they are hard to part with.... Maybe I will keep just enough for 2 houses instead of 3...
  Hope everyone is having a nice day today and will have a great week end, Sandra

                            CHRISTMAS ANGEL

Half of me wants to throw away
This angel with damaged wings,
Stored in the attic at Yuletide's end
With leftover Christmas things.

Half of me sees that the gold on her robe
Is tarnished beyond repair,
And obviously the sheen is gone
From her halo-crowned, golden hair.

But half of me treasures the memories
That crowd as I hold her near,
Memories of all the joys she has seen
From her treetop year after year.

So I climb the ladder and put her there
In what is her rightful place,
Forgetting th einjuries the years
        have brought-----
She still has her angel face.

Though the glow she once had
 Through the years may depart,
She retains, as always,
Her hold on the heart.

             virginia blanck moore

Snow pictures

I just came in after shoveling some... sure is invigorating to shovel snow... it isn't all that cold out... probably around 25 yet. the plow just went through and now Leo is snow blowing. He came early but the snow isn't finished. Everyone is anxious to clear it because its the first major snow storm... its name is Amy. :)

Anyway I think I will go now as I just wanted to enter a few pictures of all the pretty snow.

Sandra

SNOW STORM

We are in the midst of a snow storm... about 2 inches so far and maybe up to 6 or 8 inches. We went to the store to get a few things we needed to tide us over. I don't like driving unless the roads are clean... not clean this morning but not too bad yet... we got home before 10 and the snow started at 8... soon the kids will be coming home from school I bet but they haven't been called off yet.  You would be surprised how many people had to go shopping this morning..... good ole wal mart. I can now get everything there on my list for a one stop shopping.
   Maybe I will get my camera out later and take some snow pictures.
So far it looks like the lawyer can't get any further with our problem than we got... I guess it takes time though doesn't it....
Hope you are enjoying the snow.... if you are getting it too. We are really going to have a white Christmas this year thats for sure.
Sandra

CLOUDY SNOWY DAY

There isn't too much I can write about today but I thought I would come in and let everyone who cares to know Im hanging in there.... wish our problem would get solved so we can get on with our lives.... I just can't figure out what to do and what to do to make it better.... I guess nothing and that is frustrating... I WANT TO DO SOMETHING AND MAKE IT ALL GO AWAY... Darn it anyway but they sure can try a persons patience and the anxiety level is getting pretty high around here..

Leo went to the packer game last night.... Packers won but it was very very very cold sitting there I guess. they were all dressed very very warm with snowpants and snow boots and hats and scarfs and mittens etc... all the warm stuff so it wasn't too bad. I watched it at home and I guess it was a better game for me to watch than them .... you see the people in front of them kept standing up and waving their pom poms and Leo said he missed all the best plays of the game.... I guess those people just wanted to keep warm. Most people were dressed for it but some were not and they were really freezing I guess...
  We got the Christmas tree up stairs this week end and the lights are all working but I haven't started to decorate it yet... I started to wrap presents and then had to go to the store and get some things and now Im not in the mood any more... I made some telephone calls and sent some emails but I don't get any answers.... Frustrating. Telephone says leave a message and I will get back to you and then he says Merry Christmas... Ya right....I will try my best but if everyone is not happy I can't be happy either... say a little prayer please.... today is just a bad day and we started worrying again... must be the cloudy day.
I really and truly hope everything is going well for you today, Sandra

ps we got a lawyer tonight so hope that helps us a little.. it did a little already knowing someone who knows what to do is going to handle it for us.... we just don't know how by ourselves anymore and its been going on for way too long. Better days are around the corner, right? :)

Sunshine today

Today is another cold day---- nothing new about that now for a few months I guess. I mailed my cards today and did a little Christmas shopping.... for those odds and ends.... always odds and ends I guess.
My next door neighbor called me yesterday and wanted me to come over today to decorate her Christmas cookies with her.... you know I just laughed.... I am an awful neighbor but I don't even want to think of making Christmas cookies this year much less help her with hers. She has Grandchildren that live part time with her and also a son and his girlfriend.... My kids have used my recipe and make their own cookies now and since Leo can't eat any I am just going to pass on that this year... I guess after making thousands of those darn things I have had it... Instead I will make some good bars and fudge and have a nice supper for them all on Christmas eve. Last year 2 of my kids came over with some cookies they had made...The lady next door said to do it for penance..... I do plenty of that already. She is just wanting me to go over and visit her I think but I have so much on my mind I just can't right now.... I guess I just want to be left alone.... sad isn't it but thats how it is right now..... I will work on it.
So you have a nice day and take care, Sandra

Just another day

Not much going on around here lately.... I guess that could be a good thing though couldn't it.  I wrote out my Christmas cards yesterday and now have to buy more stamps etc before I mail them out.... got a lot of time yet though the way I figure it. Have to wrap the presents too so I can see if I got enough for everyone etc etc etc.... equal amounts for everyone and then get some money for the money cards... I wonder sometimes if the money is necessary but also wonder if the kids expect it or not.... never know just what to do. I will be glad when that part of the Christmas prep. is finished.
We have another cold day today and it looks now like we won't be getting that warm (35) weather this week end after all and will be getting more snow too. We have been below normal now for a long long time. This seems more like January weather to me.
it is already 9:30 and I am still in my nitegown... shame on me. I do have a load of wash in though so Iam doing something.... so gotta go but hope you are having a super dooper kinda day, Sandra