making and baking and cuddling up...

 Yesterday, we went out and about just to the grocery store.  The girls chose ingredients to make homemade Tokyo style ramen.  

Today, the plan was to make cream puffs, as per Camille's request.  I didn't help at all, she found the recipe, and is filling them with the cream she made, right now!

These are going to be hard to resist!  The house smells absolutely heavenly!

A random pic of Miss Kettler the cat, just because.    Cats find favorite places to sleep, and this is her newest perch, just keeping an eye on things.  

We have snow, you prob know that by now, because I talk about it incessantly.  It's deep and has a crunchy coating of ice on top.  But guess what?  We're getting MORE snow.

See that lake in the pic?  That's one of the most beautiful fresh water lakes in the world, Lake Ontario...with it's sandy beaches and from the east side, the sunsets!  It's also half in Canada, and it's a snow making machine.  When that polar air flows down over this lake, well, we get dumped on.  We live at the bottom of the "+" sign, as in "8"+".  Right in the middle of what will probably be a foot of new snow.

We're right smack in the middle of this one, in the white...

It won't really start until tonight, so we have a lovely afternoon looming, with just a small bit of snow gently dancing down...so maybe we'll fit in a trip to the library, for the girls' last day of winter break.  I'll have to be home though, it's pool day, again, with Ben and Ashley and Anya and Elise!

As I was sweeping and mopping this morning, I was thinking of how fast time flies.  When you're young, the future stretches before you, and old people are old people, they've always been old.  The days are long, and those years seem endless.  Then, all of the sudden, you're on the other side of youth, you're one of the old people.  The prospective has switched entirely, it's like it absolutely ZOOMED BY!  Now that we only have four kids left at home, it's such a foremost thought in my mind how very temporary it all is.  Sonja K.,  18 years old, college student, is bright and fizzy, she's a light in this house.  I cherish the days and moments and outings with her!   We technically have no children anymore, as Jonathan is 16, Miss Charlotte Claire 14, and Miss Camille Anaya is 13!  They're all just moving on through.  

Oh dear, they look yummers!   

And, Sonja is home from work for the day, so we decided we may as well go on our outing...the younger girls are usually at school in person, on Fridays, when Sonja gets home early.  So we don't get out all together much anymore...