We had inches of SNOW, ish. It was very beautiful this morning, but completely unwelcome still. When I was carrying in the stuff from the milk man, I noticed how Currier and Ives the trees looked and that post-snow muffled sound in the air. But let’s talk in DECEMBER, not NOW. It’s supposed to be warmer toward the weekend.

Lorene Laubach, a friend of ours, --her daughter was moving and getting rid of a couch. It’s microfiber suede, kind of a brick color. Did we want it? $150. Yeah, sure! Well, it’s actually a beautiful sectional. Huge! We're trying to adapt the room so it will fit. Right now, the kids are way into this gi-normous couch in the family room. I can hear the rowdies now, after I said they should get pajamas on. How about let’s ignore Mom and go kick around on the Super Couch?

Oh, and get this: The kids had a caterpillar in a cup with some lettuce on the cupboard and I forgot and loaded the cup in the dishwasher! They asked me about the cup, I said I hadn’t seen it. (Dumb me.) They found the cup in the dishwasher and I could hear their upset little voices in the next room. They found the caterpillar, unharmed, in the bottom of the dishwasher. (I hadn’t run it yet.) Yah, thank goodness I’m on the job. love, Val