End of January but not the end of WINTER

I can hardly believe I haven't blogged since the first of the year. Casey is home from London and Dublin - see her blog School started. We had some nice warm days, but today it's back down to 20 and they are expecting maybe two inches of snow from tonight and to the end of tomorrow. Meanwhile, everyone is at Wal Mart stocking up for the big snow storm. This is somewhat amusing when I recall living in Green Valley Lake where it could snow several feet in a day and truly you were stuck in the house until the snow plow came by and you had to spend hours digging out your driveway, hoping of course that the snow plow didn't leave a big burm that you had to also dig out. I think people here are still having post traumatic stress from last year's ice storm which started on January 27 (Dawn's Birthday). Work has been busy with an Admissions deadline on Monday - so I've been dealing with frantic, upset and crying students. I've been trying to keep my sanity by doing a small photography project...one picture a week for a year that are portraits. I'm also going to Belly Dancing once a week with Doris and her daughter, Celeste. Casey is babysitting Karma, Celeste's daughter, while we dance. What she won't do to get out of exercising. I pulled out a big box Duplos as old as Casey and Karma loves them. Here's the portraits I have so far for those of you who find flicker overwhelming.

Joe at the window watching Shea and I take pictures on a snowy evening.

Casey doing a good job of ignoring me as directed - playing with the light.

Shea playing tennis on his Wii - can hardly image what our life was like before Wii.

Cora - daughter of a friend - in a mood.