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"We know the environmentalist has gone paperless - don't shake his hand when he comes out of the bathroom."

More snow

This is 2 hours later at 10am, and still coming. Rick went to New Jersey this morning. I emailed and told him to either come home early, or stay.

First snow

The first snow of the year!!

Stella Van Gogh

Kincade sent this pic that Stella had drawn. I wondered about the cone shaped things on the heads - Paige said they were party hats. Stella had just gone to several birthdays parties where the kids got party hats and must have fallen in love with them.

 

Paige knows I love and collect nativities, so when she found the one with Santa holding the baby Jesus she got it for me.

 

The next one is the characters from "A Charlie Brown Christmas." At Thanksgiving, Pat mentioned that her Christmas trees have been getting smaller and smaller, and this year she got a Charlie Brown tree, with one branch that droops down. Then Michelle was at CVS and came across this Charlie Brown nativity, and got it for Pat to go with the tree. Jason, Rick, and I went to three CVS' before we found mine. I'm not into cutsey nativities, but this one I like.

 



Needs

Sometimes you need two pacifiers, and sometimes you need a hamburger as big as your head.

 

 

This is one wild hair do



And now Macy can do pigtails!! Two little pigtailed sailors

 

Stella is ready for Preschool

When you just really, really need something a little extra...

...only two pacifiers will help.

Please don't be stupid...

...leave that to the politicians.

(Just heard it on the radio as I was listening to Rush. Must have been a public service announcement.)

Sunshine patriots

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. "

This was the beginning of Thomas Paine's pamphlet "The Crisis." I thought of it because Rick and I went to a Mitt Romney event/rally yesterday afternoon. We left our house at 2:30 pm, an hour drive over to Yardley, PA (kinda by New Hope and Washington Crossing the Delaware) to Shady Brook Farms. It was packed with people - the lines were long and they just kept coming and coming. It took us 1 1/2 hours to get thro security and into the event. The crowd was upbeat and it was fun to talk to people. One woman and I talked for a long time; it is so much fun for me to come across someone who likes to talk politics as much as I do, and is as informed. I suppose most of the crowd was also as highly motivated.

It was quite cold, but we came prepared with coats, gloves, scarves, and earmuffs. It was out in a huge field, and was packed (crowded, crammed, full, filled, full to capacity, bursting, overflowing, chock-full, jam-packed, chock-a-block, heaving) with people. Lots and lots of police and I suppose secret service and other security types. It was supposed to start at 5 or 5:30 (I read and heard both times). This is where the sunshine patriot comes in. Rick and I were both cold, and Rick had to get up early today and drive over to New Jersey for a meeting - so after being there for a while we just left.

After we got home, I turned on the tv to FOX News and they were covering the event live. It was 7:15 and Romney was just ending his stump speech! I was amazed, thought he would have been thro about 6 or 6:30. It turned out he was late arriving, so it didn't get started on time. Gov Corbett and Sen Toomey were there speaking also, which I hadn't known. With the way parking was, I'm sure it took people several hours or more just to leave. FOX News said there was a crowd of 28,000 people, which I believe it.

But Rick and I were summer soldiers last night.