How can you not love this woman?!  She has done what I have only dared to dream about...

Funny, but you should watch to the end...

Maggie and Rody

Icicles on our rosebush

This is what shut down our schools last month.  A little ice on the road and a few icicles in the morning.  How can you not love winters in Houston???!!! I will miss winter so much in a month or so...  It's been a beautiful one...

Reading Good Night Moon

Maggie

She is so fun!  And probably will be a little spoiled.  She loves to run! Dancing for her is running in circles.  She is so happy!  And sweet and polite.  She says "Thank you mommy" all the time, and lately she's been saying "Yes, ma'am", indiscriminately of course and her daddy hears it too.  She loves her sister Esther.  The last time she was getting a vaccine, she did not cry for mommy and daddy as she has in the past, but through her tears she said: " I won' Tamuel!" Tamuel is the name she's given Esther.  We don't know how she ever came up with it, and we have tried to correct it many times over, but she refuses to call her "Esther".  At this point we hope this is something that sticks for ever.

Central Market

I LOVE Central Market.  The produce from this store does not go bad in the refrigerator just after a week.  I also buy flowers there, because they not only have a variety, but they package them for you so neatly and beautifully.  It is rare, but if the flowers, hydrangeas in my case, wilt too quickly, when I return to Central Market and simply ask which are the freshest flowers and casually mention that the last ones wilted quickly, the employee behind the counter apologizes and without asking further questions gives me the best four hydrangeas they currently have and writes a ticket that says No Charge...  I have shown up at the deli counter 10 min before closing and asked to have a few things sliced, which obveously will take longer than 10 min, but my meat or cheese is sliced and packaged with a smile.  They even take the time to ask me whether I prefer a container or a plastic bag!  These few reasons will be enough for me to keep going to this store again and again, in spite of the half an hour drive to it, but there is more.  I have not mentioned yet the perfect flow of the store, the countless variety of breads, cheeses, meats, chocolates, fresh organic produce at wildly acceptable prices, and of course the free bread and cheese samples.  And last but not least the little piggy bank at the front of the store which will take my children's quarters for a fresh banana, apple, or a pair and thus make their experience just as good as mine.  It is easy to LOVE this store.