ANOTHER SNOW DAY

It had snowed all last night and into this morning. The sun came out this afternoon and the sky is amazingly a gorgeous blue color with a few clouds This is a picture of Mimi's girlfriends on their way home from school. Left to right is Sidney and sister Janae, Maddie and sister Marissa.

The weatherman says that we are expected to get more snow and rain tonight. So far they have been right on target with their predictions.

STORYTELLING TIME

Mimi is still feeling a bit under the weather. Her appetite is slowly coming back, her energy most definitely has come back. Tonight after dinner Mimi and papa enjoyed quiet time together reading Mimi's monthly edition of "Highlights". I always enjoyed that magazine myself when I was a kid.

CHRISTMAS IN MARCH

While our friends are having BBQ weather down on So. Cal. We are having a snow day. The weatherman was right for once. The past few days have been quite clear. Last night it started to snow up in them thar hills. Then this evening it started to snow at the lower levels. Maple Valley is located at the 500 foot level. It started snowing so much that the neighborhood gals Gabby (left) and Jordan (right) was out having fun having a snowball fight. The snow is coming down harder as I look out our office window. According to the weather report, this snow is to continue for the next couple of days. I'm sure that the kids will be happy if it still snows tomorrow and there is no school.

THE END OF MIMI'S WORLD AS SHE KNEW IT

This afternoon, out of the blue she started to wail like a banshee!!! Egads!!! Mama says to her "What is your problem little girl?" She could not tell me, just wailed some more. "Am I your problem?" mama asked. Through her tears that are flying out of her eyes she says "Nnnnooooo, I don't want to wear these pants sob, sob, sob, I wanna wear my FAVORITE PANTS more sob, sob, sob." Mama then tells her that they are earmarked for the washing machine. Can you not see the fumes coming out of them? This brought on more tears. Then she was upset because she could not have 5 more minutes on the computer. We all know where she got that one from (hmmm papa?). Papa is forever and a day saying "In a minute". We finally made it to the market and pharmacy to get our medication. Mama knew that all this happened because Mimi has been fighting a viral infection and we are sleep deprived. Therefore we skipped gymnastic school today. Thank goodness she is over the worst of it. Her appetite is starting to come back so mama will have papa bring home some pizza from Papa Murphy's tonight after work. That is Mimi's ultimate favorite treat.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH AND KNOCK KNOCK JOKES

It's amazing, our Mimi who we consider an absolute Einstiein and very bright child comes up with something like this. Her new schtick now is going around the house and saying blah, blah, blah while trying to do tricks with her tongue such as curling it.

She also is starting to get into the knock knock jokes.

Papa: Knock, knock.

Mimi: Who's there?

Papa: Orange.

Mimi: Orange who?

Papa: Orange you going to let me in?

Then they both fall off their chairs laughing on to the floor.

WIND STORM AND RAIN STORM

Today is absolutely gorgeous outside. Yesterday was a different story though, It was dark, rainy and windy. We had so much wind that it just blew mama's Hyacinth's right down to the ground. So today she went to pick them and placed them in the kitchen just above the sink. Oh they smell sooooo good!!! They make the whole kitchen smell oh so sweet.

Just in case you are wondering about the picture in the background, it is a picture of mama and papa on their first big date to Disneyland on Saturday July 11, 1994 (papa's birthday). It was a great day that day. Everything that we had planned for that day just fell into place.

CALIFORNIA LICENSE PLATE

Much to mama's surprise, this is what she found when she went out to the garage this afternoon to get the broom. Papa must have put it up yesterday when he was working out there. It most definitly put a smile on her face.

We must soon start looking into getting mama a new car. The lease on our CRV is almost up. Still not quite sure what kind of vehicle to get. I would like to have one that is environmentally friendly, gas efficient, and a roomy SUV but not as big as Keri and Wade's "Dinali".