Since I haven't been blogging much in the last ten months, I haven't been able to bore anyone with my granddaughters. They are, I'm sure everyone can agree, extraordinarily beautiful little girls.

CHRISTMAS 2008


CHRISTMAS 2008


If I could just get out of this car seat....


Introspective four year old


And, just because I am bored to tears and can't get out of the house, this is the scene from my front porch/smoking lounge. The snow is all from last night and this morning. Seriously, you would NOT want to mention global warning in my vicinity. And yes, it's still snowing.



Ah well, back to my movie.

As Rome Burns...

Yesterday I was driving around doing errands and getting groceries- I take our winter storm advisories seriously and like to provision up- when WLS played a news conference from our Beloved Governor (spit) following his impeachment by the Illinois House.

He read a poem by Tennysson.

Strangely, I had the visual image of Nero playing the fiddle.

Oh dear Lord, please let this national humiliation end soon. I have started telling people I'm really from WISCONSIN, for pete's sake!

My Late Christmas Present

I got a call from my daughter-in-law last night.

It seems their bank card has been used at a McDonald's.

In Kuwait.

After 15 months, counting down the months, then the days, now the hours.

MY SON IS ON HIS WAY HOME!!!!