Joyous Tomorrows

Winter time was never a time of excitement.  My dad was an above the knee amputee as a result of a winter time logging accident.  Going out for activities in the winter was just not thought of.  I can remember the winter I wrote about in an earlier post, the snow was so deep that I went out side and made a snow angel.  I can say I don't remember doing that when I was little.  My memories of winter was sitting around the pot bellied stove and cracking nuts, listening to the adults tell stories, which I can't remember now.  Drat!  That  is not true.  We did do one thing of winter time fun, and that was to make snow ice cream.  I am salivating thinking about it.  I loved to make the snow ice cream.  It was fun and tasted sooooo good! Fresh Fallen Snow Ice Cream Ingredients: 1 gallon snow 1 cup white sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups milk Directions: When it starts to snow, place a large, clean bowl outside to ...

Prologue This is a fun post for me. It all started out with my teasing my daughter that she needed new glasses when she was playing a video game with her boys. She couldn't figure out what I was saying at first, then she gave me the slow grin that she has and said " oh, I am just being intense". That was the beginning of our teasing her. Of course she is on bed rest to keep from having her baby 2 months early , so she does have an excuse for not being involved. LOL. The Story What do you do when you are facing bone chilling COLD weather? If you are on bed rest, as my daughter is, you might face fighting an addiction to playing video games. my little grandson is good at bringing the daughter back to reality. We all have been having a good time and teasing her for her intensiveness at trying to win. The boys have told her she can lose. I reminded them she dates doing games back to before they were born. Her father would play Tetras, Frogger, Pac Man, and Joust wi...