A Partially White Christmas?!?

As snow covers about 60% of my yard, and Christmas now only 6 days away, I am optimistically hoping that the McCarthy family will experience their first ever White Christmas in Cleveland! The weather forecast shows that the maximum temperature between now and Christmas, is only 30 (-1C) - so I know that the snow won't melt away. There are also indications of a few snow showers during the week, but will that be enough to cover the exposed grass before Saturday? I guess we will have to wait and see....

ON the subject of weather, many of you have seen this lighthouse on the news, but I bet you didn't know that it was only about 20 miles (30km) from my house!


The Christmas season is in full swing in the McCarthy household. Nathan is officially out of school until 2011. On Friday, Liesel and I headed over to friends for a Christmas party, while the boys stayed at home with their babysitter. We had a good time at our friends, playing some fun games, having some good food, and enjoying each others company.

Saturday was more laid back than normal. Our primary goal was to avoid any place that had a cash register on the last Saturday before Christmas. Nathan and I did go to the library that afternoon, for his first ever, Brick Builders Club. The library invites children between the ages of 6 and 13 to come and build some Lego. Nathan had a great time and built some Lego Castle creations! At the end of the hour, the librarian takes a photo of the kids' creations before they head home. He will definitely be registering for the next Brick Builder's Club.

That evening, after putting Josh to bed, Liesel, Nathan and I sat down in front of the TV and watched the South African classic, The Gods Must Be Crazy. So many memories came rushing back, and it was still as funny as ever! Nothing better than laughter and a good dose of South African accents before bedtime. We still have The Gods Must Be Crazy II to watch :)

On Sunday, I took the boys to Church, to give Liesel an opportunity to do things like wrap Christmas gifts and other chores that can't be done with a two year old tornado in the house....

Speaking of Christmas gifts, Google has also been in the Christmas spirit this week, and generously sent me a prototype of their brand new Chrome OS notebook to keep, and use as I please! It's is basically a smaller, lightweight computer, loaded with Google's ultra fast web-based operating system. Even Liesel seems impressed, and has finally given up her Yahoo email address, in favor of a brand new Gmail address, specially created to help me test out this notebook.
(This blog was typed on the Google Cr-48)