Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all! We hope every one's holiday was restful, fun and meaningful. On Christmas day it actually snow PNW. After living here for about 20 years, it was the first snow we have seen on Christmas day. What a treat! It was a wonderful day, full of presents, family, friends, and yummo food. I prepared a 4 course Southern Italian meal of: mixed seafood salad, spaghetti with anchovies, salmon with fennel, sweet potatoes fritters, cauliflower salad, broccoli, figs wrapped in prosciutto. For dessert we were treated to Eika's cranberry tart and Christine's grasshoppers. Wine: Critone, Val di Neto, a white wine with a hint of citrus.

Lucas was with us for about a week. While here, we trekked up to Mt. Rainer. After surviving the car slide from hell, we celebrated our survival with a fun day of snow shoeing. The snow was deep and fluffy. Forrest and Lucas made it their mission to see how much snow they could dump on me. Through pure luck on their part and bad timing on mine, I was the walking bull's eye for every tree they purged. Mom's always persevere. In between I caught the much need winter's silence I craved.