Snow!

Someone played the "Snow" song from White Christmas this morning - ya know, the one where Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby and that other lady are on the train to Vermont?! Well anyway, we're getting more snow they say this weekend. 8-12 inches - ya right, I'll believe it when I see it! I hate these false alarms anyway. Besides, I'm headed to Cabela's in Owatonna tomorrow, it can't snow until I'm home safely. I really want to go to Cabela's! :) No - not in Rogers, I've been to that one already. I've driven past Owatonna how many hundreds of times and have yet to visit the store. I'll be sure to let you know all about the trip south. It's going to include a drive over the new bridge in Minneapolis as well as Medford Outlet Mall shopping and at least one stop at Target - whether Vadnais Heights, Lakeville or Forest Lake has yet to be seen.


Janna said something so intelligent and cute the other day. We were watching Dora and it was "Best Friends Day" so Boots and Dora were finding things for a picnic (strawberries - 10 of them and "Shock-o-latte" from the Chocolate Tree) and Dora had to go through the gate to get to Rainbow Rock for their picnic. (Boots had to go over the crabs to get to Rainbow Rock but that's another story) So anyway - Dora comes to the gate and the gate is locked - oh no! Lock is very sad b/c he doesn't have Key (his best friend) and sure enough here comes Swiper (Swiper, No Swiping!) who throws Key into the shrubbery. Lock is even more sad...poor Lock! Anywho - Janna turns to me with her crinkled up nose (loooove that look) and says, "Why are Lock and Key best friends - they don't do the same thing? They're completely different?" Omigosh - she's too funny. I explained, of course, that a lock is no good without a key to open it and a key serves no purpose without locks. I think she got it, but I'm not sure...


Good grief I love other people's kids! Reese loves to repeat everything you say, just so his vocabulary grows. He says "pillows" in the funniest way - something like "piddows" oh dear. I could go on and on and on about them!


I said in an earlier post that I'd gotten a lot of Christmas shopping done...well, now it's done-done. I went to Duluth on Saturday evening and finished up. Although I'm not really happy with what I found Mom, so I might be getting her something different...anyway. It was fun to get done. Even more fun to wrap on Sunday! I'm looking forward to everyone's reactions to their gifts. I LOVE giving gifts - it's the reason I was put on this earth I think - to shop and give gifts! I love shopping for other people even more than for myself! I find Janna something new nearly every week - that kid's going to have quite the wardrobe! Ally is fun to shop for too - she loved the sweater I gave her and it looked as awesome on her as I thought it would. She's got this great little 4th grade body - loooong legs and she looks fantastic in everything! Aaron - well, he just doesn't care - as long as he has something on his body, he's happy! :) Reese - as long as it's orange he's happy too! :) Oh heck, he doesn't even care if he's clothed!

So let's see...what have I watched lately? I saw Howard's End last night. That's it - I haven't watched a movie in a couple of weeks! I have Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Children of Heaven waiting to be watched - maybe Sunday. I've finished A Breath of Snow and Ashes - am still looking forward to the next book - I need to find out how it goes for Jamie and Claire in Scotland and how Roger, Bree, Jemmy and Mandy adjust to life in the 70s! I just started reading One Fifth Avenue (Candace Bushnell) last night and I'm hooked! Very good so far. I also read A Good Woman (Danielle Steele) this weekend. I was a little disappointed - too much happened to Annabelle in that book. I know it's fiction, but even for fiction, it was just a little over the top. But then again, isn't all candy a little over the top?

That's it for now. I'll update you on my Cabela's run sometime in the near future and will have Telker Christmas pictures next week! Oh - and be sure to check my facebook page - I have thanksgiving pictures as well as "Ghosts of Telker Past" pictures too!