Friends

Cooper and his best friends, Eleanor and Ryder.

Love this picture of Cooper and Eleanor,
though they look a bit too much like teenagers for my liking.

Thanks for the pictures Heather (Eleanor's mom)!!!

This Is My Son

He put the cheese pieces in his mouth and announced "I'm a beaver!"

Then he ran around for about 10 minutes doing this:



You have to admire the creativity!

Simple Comforts

I have just collapsed onto the couch after another busy day. I find these days that I spend a lot of time thinking about the things I didn't accomplish...I didn't make all the Thanksgiving left-overs casseroles I had planned, another day went by without cleaning off my desk, my work To Do list continues to grow, and the first snow came before I got around to preparing the garden for winter.

Tonight I'm taking a different approach. I'm enjoying a few simple things I did accomplish. After putting three bags of fresh turkey stock in the freezer I admired the dozen or so zucchini muffins, made from zucchinis I grew, along with several bags of tomatoes grown by me. And while I may not have made the casseroles, I have lots of stock for many bowls of soup some day in the future when I have the time. And the left-over turkey is in the freezer too, so those casseroles still have hopes for future meal satisfaction.

It's comforting to know I do accomplish a lot, with a little help from the freezer.