Ok, the most important thing to happen yesterday, for my Mom anyhow, was that the Wisconsin Badgers (her alma mater) beat Michigan State in the first big Ten Championship game, we’re all happy for them and her! Now on to the events of the day.
It snowed until about noon and then finally let up. I finished up some work in the morning and then we headed off to the school to take the boys sledding. It was so cold outside we don’t know how they could stand it but they just kept trudging up and sledding down the hill. The oldest one was on his snow board most of the day. We’re thinking about getting him a real one for his birthday or Christmas as the one he uses is just a toy his brother acquired somewhere. He also wants to take some lessons this year which we’re going to do for him. We had the youngest ones friend with us and when we arrived home he asked if he could go over to his house and play. We were going to run out to Golden to a mountaineering shop for some new gloves so off Mom, the oldest and I went while he played at the neighbors. When we arrived we were shocked to see the store was open every day except Saturday. We were all hungry so the three of us stopped into Woody’s Pizza for a hamburger. It was nice for the oldest to have Mom and Dad to himself and nice for us too. He’s so grown up, both of them are.
The rest of the day was spent around the house and at 6pm we loaded up and went over to some friends house who we haven’t seen for awhile. We made it home about 10pm and all promptly hit the hay. Everyone of course is still sleeping except me.
Grandma Annette, (she’s so good about responding to questions) commented that she wants the blog to keep going. Here’s her comment,
“I hope you keep the blog going. The blog makes Jean and I feel we are with you all everyday. We really enjoy it. The kids will enjoy it as they get older. I’m working on our ancestry and have a written paper of the everyday life on the ranch in Santa Clara and their life with their grandparents on a ranch in Los Gatos. Their Grandmother had a Chinese cook that was with her for 40 years. He made butter cookies for all the kids. It sounds like Bonanza. I wish we had more of what went on then.”
Thanks for sharing, we’re looking forward to reading up on all the ancestry when she finishes. What was the cook on Bonanza’s name? Was it Chin Lee or something like that?
How about a little politics. Ol Herman Cain finally dropped out, is anyone surprised? I think his wife was about a week ago when it came out that he had a 13 year affair and financially supported some woman for the whole time! Let’s see, 4 women came forward and then this one which was the straw the broke ol Herman’s back. Wow, 13 years and he says he was just “helping her out” and “being a good person” and “nothing went on”. Does anyone really believe this? I guess his wife does as she’s standing by and staying with him. This really bugs the misses. Whenever this happens (infidelity or as the misses calls it, cheating) usually the wives stay with their husbands. Except for Tiger Woods wife, most of these “cheaters” wives look past it and stay with their man. Boy let me tell you, I would never ever cheat (have no desire and why would I, I mean have you seen my wife?) but if I did, the misses would be gone in a flash! My question is, how do these type of people get in such positions of power in the first place? It’s not just politicians either, it happens everywhere. Not everyone is the person they appear to be. It’s hard to trust anyone anymore. You really have to be careful these days.
Tonight around dinner we’re supposed to get more snow and it’s supposed to continue through the morning. They say the high temperature will be 10 degrees tomorrow. My flight is at 8am and I hope I get out! I’m gone until Thursday morning and it’s imperative that my flight takes off on time. Today will be filled with lots of football and some cleaning. The misses made a couple of great batches of soup yesterday which we’ve almost finished off so maybe we’ll need to whip up another batch today. I know the boys are planning on sledding again today too. I guess I’ll run now and get moving for the day, hope everyone is well and getting into the Christmas spirit. Take care and God Bless,