SNOW

We are having some unusually cold and snowy weather. Its suppose to snow the next 3 days and we are going to have below 0 degree temps! Brrrrr! I hope it clears by Saturday as we have to drive the kids back to FL. We may have to leave sooner. Hoping tomorrow won't be bad. Just have to keep checking the weather. The grandaughters have to be back to school on Monday! They have exams to make up.

We took the oldest daughter to the airport yesterday to fly back to FL. Hopefully, she had a good time. Thats a 2 hour drive to Nashville. It was snowing when we left our house at 9:30 am and then the closer we got to Nashville, the snow stopped and it was sun shiney. We had left early just in case. She had to be there 1 and 1/2 hours before flight time. SHe got off ok and called us when she arrived in Tampa. On the way home we stopped in Cookeville youngest daughter and I got our hair cut. Then it was off to Penneys to exchange some Christmas gifts. They had some good clearance sales with 70% off! Then it was off to Sams club for our monthly shopping and then home. We got a couple of pizza's at Sams and oldest grandaughter had the oven preheated by the time we got home in 20 minutes we had the first pizza cooked. And enough left over for lunch today.

Well not alot going on. Will be housebound the next couple of days since temps are suppose to drop to zero. Its only 15 degrees now!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

I know its been quite awhile since I have written on my blog I have either been busy working or trying to get some Christmas gifts and crafts made.

We have a housefull. Both daughters are here from FL. The girls were thrilled to see snow for the first time when we brought them up from FL on Dec 2oth. It snowed today a little and despite the cold, they were out there playing in it. The girls love to take the 4 wheeler down the trails. Our neighbor lets us go on his property. Chuck took Kristy out (our middle child) looking for arrowheads and she found one and needless to say was thrilled. I don't think any of them realized how cold it would be here Kristy and the girls were here for Thanksgiving last year so thought that it would be in the 40's instead, its in the high 20's and low 30's daytime and in the low teens at night!

Christmas was a small affair but fun anyway. We got both daughters clothes and since one of Kristy's girls broke her digital camera, we found her one on sale on Black Friday at Walmar. The girls got new MP3 players and clothes. Everyone has pitched in to help cook dinners especially on the 3 nights during the week that I have to work (at home with medical transcription). The girls made some chocolate chip cookies and some sugar cookies (grandpa's favorite). We also made some pumpkin bread. I would like to make some homemade ice cream while they are here. Oldest daughter Lisa, flies home on Monday and we drive the others back to FL on the 8th or 9th. Will spend the night with son Stephen and his fiancie. They just bought a house and closed before we got to FL on Dec 16th so we were able to stay there for a couple of days and help them get stuff moved in. They got a bank owned foreclosure and it was half the price of what it sold for two years before. I would say that they lucked out as bank owned houses seem to take forever to close on.

We spent New Years Eve at home just fixed a bunch of finger foods and watched movies. New Years day we had our traditional ham and today I fixed split pea soup with the ham bone. Everyone seemed to like it and the grandaughters said they had never had it and liked it. Tomorrow night its London Broil which they requested. We also fixed Beef fondue, lasagna and chicken almondine. Still have a couple more of their favorites to fix.

Well I think that I will watch a little TV so will sign off for now.