Doing stuff. Nothing important. Snow and more snow

January seems to have come at a rate of knots and disappearing so quickly. It's Leon's birthday tomorrow which will be great fun. Always nice to have a celebration. Cake made, presents wrapped, wine in cupboard.

Life is snow and snow at the moment. More snow is on its way. To be honest it would be so nice to see green leaves and grass. Everything is white for about an hour after it's snowed and then the amazing snow plows(ploughs) pull into action and everything turns to gray mess. I have shovelled the driveway twice and we have now decided to call the snow plow guy in to shovel the 12 inches expected tomorrow. As I toss the snow off the driveway I keep my motivation up with an imagine of the body in a swimming costume. It's amazing how quickly you work when you have that kind of imagine. Pretty scary too. Yes we will have beach weather sometime????

I went for a swim on Monday and the weather was so cold my hair froze walking from the gym to the car. My fingers were tingling and buring. So new hair style was in action that day. I could not stop laughing. Frozen hair. Pure madness.

Wednesday is ice skating lessons and the snow was falling fast and alot, lessons carried on. So we skated in a thick layer of snow. To be honest it was pretty amazing, the fresh air was fantastic. Winter is bareable with all the winter spots available. So you do them and make life plesant. Thank goodness they did not close the schools again.

Perry and I hit all the furniture outlet stores and charity shops today. I am on a painting mission at the moment. Everything is turning white. The landlord would flip seeing his family room turned into a furniture restoration room. I bought a footstool and shelve. I need to see if my sewing machine will work so I can make a slip cover for the footsool.

So life is normal at the moment which is good. That balance is there.



My mirror which I am fixing up. Primer is a lovely thing.




How do you like the furniture restoration room? Tooooo cold to work in the garage.




All done and very happy with it.



We eat more biltong now than we ever did in South Africa. We want an attachment for my kitchen aid to make our own boerewors. Bringing South African foods to the states

I just love my girls. I said to Leon I like holding the kids hands. It brings me back to earth because I can feel their small hands and see the tiny fingers and realise they are still so little. Take a step back and take a chill pill.



Furniture waiting to be fixed up.