Hello, World!

We have had WAY too much snow during that last couple of weeks. I don't seem to have any photos of the boys playing in it because it seemed as though as soon as we heard the storm warning and rushed to the grocery store with all of the other unprepareds in the DC area I began to become deeply and immediately depressed. The boys and I did not drive the Expedition for a week and a half! We played outside at first, but then it just got yucky and it was cold and...and...we were BORED! Jay was fortunate that he got to go back to work after a week and I just stopped getting dressed. Ate a lot of M&M's that were supposed to be for Jayson's Valentines Day party. Watched Masterpiece Theatre. Read one of my fave books...Joy of Cooking. Did some online shopping. Charlie and Aidan were thrilled to stay at home day after day. Aidan discovered a new vocation: cookin' a dinna. He gets every pot, pan, utensil, etc. that he can reach out onto the kitchen floor and fills them with toys and balls and the occasional scrap of food and "cooks" it. If we try to move anything he tells us that it's hot. "Cookin' a dinna, cookin' a dinna!" Jayson began to develop a textbook case of the "Mean Reds" as described by Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. He was as overjoyed as I was when school started again (yesterday).

Just before the snow Jay's nephew Mitchell stayed with us for a couple of days to get a better look at SVU. He has decided to look into his other options. I think he should be a professional tourist...he left in the morning with Jay and came back with Jay at night. He watched obscene

amounts of college basketball and one day got lost on the Metro which shook his confidence so the next day he walked like 20 miles. Jayson is a little bit in love with him and refers to him as "Mitchy".

Jayson's M&M filled Valentines had these pics on them with the caption "love is in the air". The kids got store bought cards with Toy Story pencils, due to my embarrassing weakness for candy...especially when snowed in and not showering. What's the point?

AND....drumroll please!! Happy half birthday Charlie Snow!!