Yes, I do blond things too!

The other evening we had the bathroom scale sitting on the floor in the dining room, next to the two bags of chicken that I was supposed to take down to the freezer.
I picked up the meat, then noticed the scale there.
"I wonder how much I gained after eating supper" I thought to myself.
We had just eaten Amy's birthday supper and I had been "starving". So I hopped onto the scale.
"Whiz"... It stopped... Far beyond my usual weight (ha!see you are not going to find out what I weigh!).
"What on earth!" I thought to myself. "How does a person gain that much weight in two days?".
The morning before I had stepped on the scale and discovered that I had lost 5 pounds.Wow! And now I weighed THAT! Suddenly I realized that I was holding a bag in both hands, full, not empty bags, full of frozen chicken. As you can guess my family thought it was extremely funny.
But then, I cant blame them... How many girls stand on the scale in the dining room with a bag of frozen chicken in each hand laughing uproariously? -Frances

Wintry Things That Make Me Happy

*Christmas carols on the radio.
*Big mugs of hot chocolate, even if I don't like it all that well the idea of it is very cozy.
*Standing at the top of a sledding hill and watching all my friends laugh and play.
*Warm fireplaces with boot liners and mittens in rows in front of it.
*Wool socks.
*Hot ham and cheese sandwiches.
*Christmas cookies.
*Interesting schoolwork.
*Watching those of my family who like doing puzzles put all of those confusing pieces together.
*Wet puddles on the floor where the men came into the house with their boots on... Okay so that doesn't make me happy, but it is wintry.
*Poinsettias
*Long evenings sitting in the living room with my family solving all the worlds problems.
*Snowmobiles that my Dad keeps full of gas and Lance starts for me.
*Books like Anne of Green Gables and Little Women.
*Huge snowmen with carrot noses and strawberry jam smiles.
*Playing Fox and Geese.
*Registers and a little brother to keep the warm air coming out of them!
*Skating, skiing, sledding, snowmobiling.
*Watching Chickadees in the snowy pine trees.
*And knowing that some day, when I get to heaven, I'll know how God can make all the billions of snowflakes different and each one as pretty and glittery as the next.
*Warm soup after digging tunnels in the snowbanks.
*A Mom who lets us use her dishpans for sleds, and her hammer to bang the dents back out of them when we're done.
*A logger Dad who always has an old skidder tube to put behind the sidekick and pull us around on.
*Big, fuzzy, cuddly, teddy bears to hold while reading... When your brothers aren't there to tease you!
*Making snow angels after dark and suddenly noticing all those beautiful stars God made.
*Friends to go Christmas shopping with.
*And friends who take the time to read long posts about "Wintry things that make me Happy"!
Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Cookies

Hello :) I just thought that I would post a tiny little bit tonight to see how this works.
We had a lovely long day baking and frosting Christmas cookies. LOTS of them. Peanut butter balls, and sugar cookies, and those corn flake wreath thingys , coconut balls, chocolate chip and cherry, spritz, double chocolate and two kinds of jelly filled cookies... I think that's all. Oh, and ginger bread men. And now they are sitting on plates in rows... 22 plates of them. My Dad seems to think that the wreaths are more for amusement than for eating... Did you know that its kinda fun to pick the little red hearts off of them and throw them across the room at unsuspecting people? And now its time for me to go... See you all later, Frank