That's merel's former host family. She watched after the kids when she was first here. The mother is Dutch so they were opening presents on Sinter Klaas night.

Pittsburgh priority parcel with the profit projections passed to Pete Porter in Pasadena.

Kennel Christmas is January 8th.

Received a package. anyone want to lay claim and let me know if I need to open it or carry it on to Merel? You can just email me if you don't want to post here. Apologies if you told me already.

can you please remind me when the Kennel Christmas is?

I thought the answer for how long was... when we get done singing christmas carols. But maybe the two were just highly correlated.

the answer is 350 F for 20-30 m

how long and how hot do the cinnamon rolls need to bake?

wow! I have such talented grandkids!

Well, I guess it was too much singing. She fainted in chorus this morning at school. Have to slow down this week, but I'm not sure that is possible.

After just the first few seconds I was loving the performances and impressed. Nice job Daniela and Thomas! Thanks for helping me get in the Christmas mood.

let's see if this works.
Merry Christmas

Daniela Violin

Thomas Piano

Yeah Kamden, great stair crawling!

Went to Vespers at Millikin University with Cheryl McCue and
Karen Edgecomb. Good Christmas music, really getting into the
Christmas spirit.

Celtic Thunder got me in the Christmas spirit with the first 1/2 of their show then did an odd mix of music for the second 1/2 that included All God's Critters.

Mom we have recitals all day. I will call another.

I say Payton likes pancakes because hers are all gone. Really though, knowing both girls, Lauren actually likes them better.

Nice.
Thomas saw Erico's picture and said,"he was in first..."
We had pizza for lunch Michele, but thanks for the offer.

leftover charcoal-grilled turkey gravy. on pancakes.

decorating with polka tunes jammin. what you got now thanksgiving??

Just finished a 5K with Adrienne and Brandon. Now on to chili and baking.

Pizza tonight. Dough was not started on time. Sarah you can join us!

quiero pizza!

The pizza was great!

delicious bytes.

We'd love to join you! How about if we serve the same thing in Tx and do a virtual dinner together over Skype?

It's Friday! That means homemade pizza for dinner tonight! Come on over!

In Mt. Pulaski finally, but big thanks to AO and Nick for rescuing me from the Bloomington Airport last night and to AO for the Christmas Carols at her house, they helped make me feel better about having a dead car. My wallet is a little lighter today, but my car is back in good shape.

yay for ao. and strawberry jam.

Mom is at my house safely, but the bloomington airport has acquired one dead car battery.