More Name that Car?

For my dad and brothers...
Couldn't resist...

Age Has Its Privileges

My 96-year-old grandmother gave Sirius cookies. Not dog cookies, but butter cookies, from a tin. (No one else is allowed to give him people food...)

That blur in the lower left-hand corner is my dog wiggling himself into a frenzy for a cookie... :o)

Our Boys...

Max got a new game for his birthday. Uncle Tom set it up and taught them how to play.

Max, Tom, Nick, and Ethan

Generations

This is one of my prized possessions. It is a lap quilt that was pieced by my great grandmother and quilted by my grandmother. It's, frankly, really ugly. Oranges and reds and weird color combinations, but ggma made it out of what she could get on the farm (probably feed sacks and the like).

Inspiration...

This is about the only part of my workspace that hasn't already made it up here. Pictures of family, and the Emily Dickinson photo and other quotations that I've mentioned, as well as a couple of other silly things that tend to rotate in and out.

FFF

Today the family went to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. As you can see from this pic, there was plenty of silliness to be had. The museum is quite cool, and Tom and I were fascinated enough by one of the presentations to see it twice to "figure it out." But the only place we could take photos was in this huge atrium.

John Wilkes Booth was just hanging out near the Whitehouse portico awaiting his time in the sun. As were a couple of famous generals...

Of course, there was also some commodification:

Make My Day

Personalized Valentines from my nephews arrived today and immediately went up on my bulletin board next to my computer. I started to crop out the photos on my desk, then realized the boys were in them. So, this one gets to pretty much represent "family." :) Ethan's is the far left (he's 5), Max's is in the middle (7), and Nick's on the right (3). The photo in the center is one of my favorites--I took it of Max and E with the elephants at the zoo. :) The photo on the left is at Tom's wedding. The three boys are in the center front.

Update: Called to tell them thank you--Max wants to know "Why are little brothers *so* annoying? Tell me, what's good about little brothers?" (I told him that I wouldn't have gotten to spend time with *him* if I hadn't had little brothers.) Ethan went to a "Valentimes party" and got *two* suckers--"Almost all the other cards had Skittles in them, Aunt Jenny, how did they *know* that suckers were my favorite?" And Nick, well, Nick got a *red* sucker, and that was really great! :o)

And, it's snowing. Beautiful heavy flakes of perfect snowball snow (so perfect that I had to throw one while I was cleaning off my car to come home). One of the best parts about snow is how quiet it is while it's snowing. It makes you feel kind of wrapped up in a cocoon of white.