Thanks

Things to be thankful for:
SNOW on the ground (but not on the streets)
Cookies baking
Fingers to lick
Lower gas prices for our long distant travels
Family who are looking forward to our visit
Freedom to worship if you choose
Light displays to OOOh and Awwww over
Beautiful voices to celebrate the season thru song
And a job. Happy Holidays to every one.

I spent the day making cookies to take to Seattle with me. If only we can stay away from them till we get where we are going. We are making a stop in Walla Walla, WA to visit our long time friends Lynn & Judy and of course leave some cookies there. We all used to live in Sandy and would spend the holidays making and baking special moments to share with family and friends. I miss those days. But this year I do it with Judy in my heart and look forward to our visit in just 1 wk.

One cookie I won't get to this year is the family fave of Springerle. We normally make these as they were something Walt's Mom made religiously when she was alive. We continued the tradition but this year I have been working so much that I just made some that were less labor intensive.

Getting Ready

Getting ready to leave town is fun, confusing, exciting, harried, exhausting and I can hardly wait till we are on the road. We are going to visit family in WA for Christmas and a huge wonderful event (Mom turns 80). Christmas can't get any better than being together with those that you love and have fun with. We are loading up the sleigh and fueling the reindeer for the drive north. As the commercial says "I'm too excited to sleep".

Let it snow

I was so confused.. I had 2 backgrounds on top of each other and couldn't figure out how to get rid of the old FALL one. I wanted to change to the snowflakes or any other I chose but didn't want the confusion to continue. So I reverted back to the very ORIG and now will start over. Ugh. Sometimes it's best to get back to the root of a problem.