There's Snow Place like Home!

Max and I got to fly up to Seattle on Monday to spend the whole month with my parents!!! We've had a fun time so far with Mar Mar (my mom) and Paw Paw (my dad), Max loves helping Paw Paw with chores...ie, feeding the kitties and the llamas. He has special work boots that they bought him that he's allowed to walk through puddles with. He loves to pick up the kitties (the poor things), and loves to try give the llamas hay. My mom and dad's new house in Sultan is Beautiful!!! It's so fun, and woodsy, and feels like a fun Christmas Cabin! Mom, Dad and I were watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel last night, mom's favorite channel, and just at the end of a fun little movie, the satelite started acting up...grrrr. We had about five minutes left, and we couldn't see a thing!!!...we decided to turn it off, and as we looked out the window just beyond the TV...it was snowing! Snow had covered the receiver, so we couldn't watch it anymore...This was the view of their house when we woke up this morning: still snowing (isn't it awesome how quiet it is when it snows?) and foggy! I love it! We put max's warm stuff on...but since we've lived in the Desert for sooooo long, we put Paw Paw to shame wearing all cotton. (That's against the Ellsworth Code of Conduct; you never wear cotton outside!) Max's boots fell off a few times, leaving his socks soaking wet...he kept knocking off his mittens, and our time to play in the snow was only about 10 minutes, afterwhich, I swiftly took him up to a warm tubby. Nevertheless...He had a fun time playing in it before the boots and mittens came off... It's so nice to be at home, it's so nice to feel the brisk air when you go outside, and to wear my warm coat and scarf. I'm so grateful to be home this time of year!