new year's eve

the funniest thing elenora says is "snow" because she is very amused by the way it vibrates in her nose. she wrinkles up her nose and squinches her eyes and says "snow...snow...snow" with a very nasal sound. i'll have to obtain a video of this for everyone's enjoyment.

here's a photo of ella saying "snow":

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it's snowing outside right now. another major snow storm. k. was supposed to come to our house tonight, but the snow is postponing our make-your-own pizzas until tomorrow night. j. and i will order in some chinese for dinner and snuggle in for a cozy, quiet evening.

here are my new year's resolutions:

1) Keep our room clean.
2) Save money.
3) Get to the gym several times a week (if not more).
4) Floss every night.

i feel like these are so basic and typical and lacking in imagination. and i have a nagging sense that i've been tucking away other resolutions that i'd wanted to make, and now i can't remember them.

the last one is going to take the most effort. when i'm already in bed ready to sleep it seems to take so much effort to get up and spend ten minutes flossing.

i've started Ethan Frome. i read it in high school and remember quite a bit of the imagery from the tale. i picked it up because i checked out Age of Innocence from the library and it was part of a "Four by Edith Wharton" collection that also included Ethan Frome. last night i started reading the story just to see what it was like now that i'm 14 years older, and now i'm sucked in. it's so short anyhow that i think i can read both of the stories before the three weeks are up and i have to return it to the library.

i love the library. elenora and i have such a good time there, and the books i'm able to get for her are so wonderful. i picked up a lot of books about snow this time. one of them is an illustrated book of the poem "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" by robert frost. and it is beautiful. just pencil drawings with a bare amount of color. but tucked into the trees and the snow are all kinds of animals that ella just loves to find. she loves the deer, and makes me flip back to the page with the deer several times before continuing to the end. we also got a book by mem fox called "ten little fingers, and ten little toes" which is adorable because it has sweet pictures of babies.

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