This is the snowiest winter this area has had in awhile, and we are loving it.
We love watching the snow fall from our cozy perches by the fire place, but we especially love going on walks in the snow.
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| My brother and his wife stopped by for a bowl of soup just as the snow started to fall, and they left my mom and me a note on their way out. |
Roo likes it too! She gets cold, though, so my mom has devised a way to make one of her wool vests fit Roo. The fitting process involves lots of safety pins and is not unlike fitting a cloth diaper to a newborn baby.
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| The vest tags! 😂 |
My mom is nothing if not resourceful.
A related side note: Roo went through heat recently — apparently small dogs go into heat at a pretty young age — and my mom fashioned diapers for her out of old underwear. Watching Roo trot around the house in those "diapers" was one of the delights of my life.
Roo adores my resourceful mom.
They are BFFs.
Oh Roo-berry, you are the apple of our eyes, the sauce on our spaghetti, the peanut to our butter. We love you, as is evidenced by our suffocating snuggles and excessive doting, and we are wondering how you will do when Baby Jackson is born...
Yep, that's right: My brother, Aaron, and his wife, Natasha, are having a BABY, due in June, 2017!!!!!!
This week, Baby J is the size of a white onion. We are fresh out of white onions, so we found a yellow onion that looked like a white onion, and we marveled at how fast Baby J is growing.
If you've been reading my blog for awhile, then you know my brother met his wife on their college track team. He was a dual sport athlete at their university — he played soccer and was a sprinter on the track team — and she was a world-class heptathlete. After graduating from college, Natasha went on to compete on the world stage, and she trained for years at the Olympic training Center in Calgary, Canada. Her goal was to compete in the 2016 summer Olympics for Canada. Unfortunately, her years of training were riddled with frustrating, incapacitating injuries that interfered with her Olympic dreams, and it was with peace and hope for a new season of life that she retired from track and field last year.
We are all excited about what this next season holds for her and Aaron.
She and my brother announced their pregnancy on Facebook with this sweet video, accompanied by the caption: "Aaron and I collaborated on a design project together. It's not your average Nike ad..."
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You guys, I think I am going to adore auntie life. And my parents. Well, they are over the moon about being grandparents.
They've already started buying baby clothes, starting with this onesie:
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| Photo taken from Pinterest |
Baby Jackson, you are the perfect addition to our clan and we love you already.
Hopeful, grace-filled Monday, my friends.
I'm cheering for ya!
-SJ
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