Colorado? SNOW

We have been coming to the Northwest the past few years to spend Christmas here and usually we are greeted by gray skies and lots of liquid falling from the sky. But this year it's been different. We have been here a week and most of the time it's been WHITE stuff floating from the skies. And icy roads and temps in the 20's and 30's. When I looked out the window this morning, I thought for just a nano-second that I was in Colorado. It is beautiful and a bit strange to see snow falling on green shrubbery -- in December??? And some plants even have little buds on them. Definitely NOT Colorado in December.

We rented a 1925 bungalow in the northern part of the city. It is a charming old house, with much of the original wood floors, leaded windows in the living room and dining room, push-button light switches, ornate doornobs, etc. It also has single-pane windows and Seattle-ites don't seem to know about storm windows. Before the days of combination windows I remember, in Cherokee, taking off the screens in the fall, going to the shed and getting the storm windows -- then washing both the windows and the storm windows (no Windex either!) The next step was matching up the little round metal numbers (that my Dad had put on the screens and storm windows) to the little round metal numbers he had placed on each window casing. And then in the spring, we would do it all over again with the screens.

We have been enjoying our "GRANDS" so much! Emmett is just a bundle of energy, moving those arms and legs all the time; Magnolia is just happy to cuddle and be held. They are such GOOD babies -- they don't cry much at all and never for very long. They both go to bed without rocking them to sleep and they sleep through the night. And their smiles -- I just cannot describe what a joy it is to have those two precious babies smile at us. It warms our hearts and makes us smile in return. Emmett smiles constantly; Magnolia needs a little coaxing but it's worth the effort!

Stay tuned for some pictures of the babies coming here soon, or go to Heather's blog. She posts them frequently.