Fare Thee Well My Fair January

I'm cute and don't forget it. OINK OINK

The Littlest Cellist

I'm not sure about measure 48. I think things get hinky around there. Let's take it from 40?

Well Why Break a Record

It turns out that I did not work a five day work week during the entire month of January. Thursday, by the time I got home I had developed a case of whatever it was that Kristi and Pearce had been suffering. Let's just leave it at it was not pretty. Well, Friday I didn't wake up until around 8. Didn't get out of bed until around 9 or 10 and promptly fell asleep on the couch. Thank the Good Lord for nurse Nana. I'm glad they live so close. I have no idea how people without family can deal with situations like everyone in the house being ill. (one being in diapers still).
Well, of course I had to try and work in the yard this morning (Saturday). Yeh, my mind is slow to read my body sometimes. Didn't get much done but feel ill again and oh, yeh; broke my shovel shaft. No not the handle, the shaft that wraps around the handle. HEY, just channeling Dad.
Now, the soccer season starts in earnest on Monday with the first day of tryouts. Wish me luck. I have to pare a list of roughly 50-60 boys down to 25 in three days. Oh, the joy.

Daddy's Little Buddy

Do you really need a caption for this picture. If Pearce can manage not to get an eye poked out or a punctured belly trying to figure how Daddy gets the sound to come out of the cello he might just learn to play this thing. If he can hit the positions he's playing at now he'll have a leg up on Daddy. The color coordination was purely unintentional, people this is me. This picture is a few months old (note the wing of the old couch in the upper right corner of the pic). I was just purging some fuzzy and pointless pics from the camera and ran across this one. I just wish he would sit that still in my lap anymore.

We Have to Work Five Days in a Week?

Today is the begining of the first whole 5 day work week this year. Will we make it. Who knows. Will the snow blow back in or will we have to work five straight days without a break? It has been so long I hope I remember how. Now I must go do something about this coffee. It tastes like warm water.

He's Such a Big Boy

Head chef running the kitchen

Daddy's hat is my sign of authority (just don't tell him I took it)

Hey, what you doing over there.

This mesh stuff is pretty durable. Wonder what'll happen if I run full steam into it?

Hauling limbs with Daddy, working in the backyard.

You really think they'll like my vest.

I'm ready to go. Are you and Mommy packed and ready to go?

What do you mean your not ready to go?

Just follow your nose. Or your pig nose.

What a Difference a Year Will Make

Half an Ounce of Snowdust and the World Goes Crazy

We got sent home early today so that we got home before any precipitation could endanger the students travels to the homestead. I went and got Pearce and had some fun at the hacienda. I'm having an attack of Thesaurusitis or Rogetism (I don't know which). He really likes it and kept reaching up saying Muh Muh (more, more). Here are a few pics of the afternoon fun in the snow. Oh, yes we have been given the day off tomorrow of course.


The beginings of a good snowball

Sneaking up on the back porch...

I'm not doing anything. Really, I'm not.

Take that you big ol porch...

get away quickly before they notice.

Advancing rapidly in the opposite direction.

Random Pearceness

Touch me I dare ya

The Year has So Started.

The Christmas break is definitely over. We had kids yesterday and they came back today. I am already looking forward to MLK, Jr. Day. Hey, we may get snow this weekend though.

Black-eyed Peas, Greens, and Pork

Tis the day for some Hoppin' John, Greens, and Hog Jowls. One down and 364 to go. It has been an interesting year and this one looks to be just as interesting if not more so. We ate New Years Dinner at Reba and Roy's; ribs, ham, greens (mustard and collards), black-eyed peas, peas (looked like garbanzos that spent too much time at the beach), potato salad, mac and cheese, and cornbread.

Pearce only had some ham, and mac & cheese. He was not having any of the black-peas and wasn't allowed any greens. Of course he was the life of the party.