monday

is this one of those mindboggling puzzles you can only solve if you have two left sides to your brain and no right side? i have tried to squint my eyes and stare til i have bog eyes... but i cannot for the life of me make out the word 'google'... is it just me???


anyway... have i mentioned how much i love opening the mail these days! instead of gross icky pennysaver staining my fingertips and frustrating at&t bills telling me i overpaid on one account and underpaid on the other, my mailbox is filled with heartmeltingly beautiful christmas cards to pore over each day, to study the design and print quality of for hours - a festive feast for the fastidious photoshopper! i absolutely love seeing everyone's handwriting too... oh i wish it could be christmas everyday - well maybe not christmas in all it's decadence, but to receive handwritten notes and cards would be so nice.

i have had a brownie aha moment, which i plan to act upon tomorrow... too late tonight. i think eggbeaters are killing my brownies and making them crumby and cakelike, when i want them dense and fudgy. we'll see... watch this space

another lifechanging finding. there is a disinfectant from England that i am addicted to... yes it's tragically lame but true. i have searched high and low for it here. i even begged my Mum to mail it to me but she is scared the post office will label her a terrorist for mailing liquids (only slightly flammable.....) and is too scared to take the risk. i knew i had seen a store somewhere in the US that sold it but could i find it... nooooo. anyway i just did... and guess where it is... uhuh - here in orange county! so i'm going to splash out tomorrow on some fancy new disinfectant for christmas (tragically lame is an understatement:)
today we spent yet another insanely freezing but fun day in the snow:



Sam loves animals (these are his cousins' pets):


finally found something lovable about mac :)


from our weekend in the snow