The kids are over the moon excited.  First, we had a snow fall today.  It wasn’t’ supposed to amount to much or lay on the roads…but guess what?  There’s 2 or three inches of the stuff laying on the road in front of my house.  I’m wondering what this rather early snowfall portends for the rest of the winter.  It was a beautiful early in the day and absolutely the kind of snowstorm I like.  The roads were mostly wet, easily passable.  The trees, grass and unbagged piles of leaves became beautiful frosted sculptures.  We turned on “Journey Through the Snow” from The Nutcracker on our way to pick up our friend H.  Lovely afternoon.

And, tomorrow is St. Nicholas Day.  Since we celebrate our fasting and feasting sundown to sundown, we had our festal meal this evening, salmon, lenten pierogis (I made them, they need some work but they were OK) and veggies.  Yum.  The kids have sung the “Oh who loves, Nicholas the saintly?” song at the top of their lungs  multitudinous times and laid out three shoes each.  Hopefully, St. Nicholas will fill all three and take a way the pictures they drew for him.

Right now, they’re watching Simon in the Land of the Chalk Drawings on youtube.  Thank you Lord for youtube!  All of the old Schoolhouse Rocks videos are there also…which is good, because sometimes you just need to rock out to “Interplanet Janet.” 

Tomorrow, we go to see The Nutcracker at the BSO’s midweek concert series for kids.  All of these are blessings to be counted.

Blessings to you!