Snow!!

We're havin' a heat wave! A tropical heat wave!!

Seriously, it has been crazy cold here in Michigan this past week. Below freezing temps but it did manage to warm up just a bit in order to snow! The girls think this is the best thing since popcorn. Karolyn is going around picking up the snow off the ground and eating it. Of course, not to be outdone by her sister, Sydney is following suit!



So with all these cold temps I was in the mood for some homemade soup. My grandma made the best, bar none, homemade chicken noodle soup. She would slice up the carrots and celery and some onion. Get that all good and happy in the pot before she added the chicken stock and the left over chopped up chicken. Then for the piest de resistance, she would add her homemade egg noodles. Homemade egg noodles. YUMMMMMM. It didn't get any better than that I tell you what. I can still taste those noodles. Thick chewy noodles. Not like the mushy ones in the Campbell's cans but a noodle that you can really bite into. Was I spoiled or what?

Well I made the soup just like grandma but without the homemade noodles. Carrots, celery, a bit of onion, chunks of chicken, and I added some kidney beans and Barilla noodles. WOW... Amazing.

Jean's Project

I want to thank everyone for their prayers and thoughts when Karolyn was sick. I greatly appreciate it. She got better a couple of days later and has been back to her ol' self!!! I'm loving it!

Jean announced that she was having a blog contest and is giving away presents. The cause you ask? The homeless in NYC. Turns out there is this soup truck that drives around passing out a meal to the homeless. Well Jean figured if they passed out a meal they might be willing to pass out a bit more. So she contacted them and they said they would pass out some hats along with the meal! Of course they also thought it was a great idea and agreed to pass out the hats. How cool is that! A knitted hat to keep some person warm this winter.

Well I was knitting a hat anyway, "Thorpe" by Kristen Kapur, and I figured I wasn't really in need of it and besides I can knit another one if I wanted to so I decided to send this hat to Jean.



The pattern was very easy to follow and the finished hat is super cute! Because I didn't have any Malabrigio laying around, I substituted some Elann.com Highland Wool that I doubled. I ended up using just 2 balls which is a fantastic way to use up your extra balls left over from a previous project.

Thanks Jean for having the hat drive and I'll get that in the mail to you this week.