Anniversaries

Today is my parent's 54th anniversary.

Wow. That's a long time. What does it mean to be married for those years?

I hope they are having a happy day!

HELP! - We are Becoming the Salt and Pepper Shakers

We are eating too much.

We are becoming the salt and pepper shakers.

When we were engaged, our neighbors and best friends, Jeff and Sara Timmons, came over to dinner with a present. (The gift makes both of us nostalgic since Jeff has since passed on...)

They had purchased a salt and pepper set, a plump man and woman, bending slightly at the waist to kiss each other. The man had gray hair because Sara cut some of Jeff's hair to glue on the top of the shaker in order to make it realistic (!!?!) -- it's hilarious! -- and the woman was blond like me. I remember saying at the time that if we started looking like the salt and pepper shakers, we were in trouble because they are so plump!! Sara and Jeff said it didn't matter as long as we loved each other.

Well, we do love each other, but...we need to get to the gym!

I'm in Chicago

It's really cold here...and snowy.

This is the snowman that Luke and Emily and I made this morning. What do you think?

We discovered that the snow isn't good for packing and that it took forever to roll the snow so that we could build this guy.

Pretty cute, don't you think?

Now, this is something I won't get to do in the South!