A nice New Year's Day

Granddaughter Amber came to visit New Year's Eve and spent the night. She brought her Wii, in case anybody wanted to play with it. New Year's Day I fixed a double-batch of Pioneer Woman's chicken spaghetti, except I guess it was really turkey spaghetti, since I used the last of the holiday turkey from the freezer. It must have been OK, because there was only about one serving left when all was said and done. And I had that for supper. Now Cliff and I are going to make a genuine attempt to get back on track with our eating (no, that is NOT a New Year's resolution).

The Wii was tremendous fun; Cliff and his sister both got in on the action. I had a good time watching everybody else; I've humiliated myself enough in my life with sports to try anything like this in front of an audience. I'm pretty sure we're going to be buying a Wii of our own before long.

My favorite entertainment of the day was my great-granddaughter, Kameron. She just turned one and is very near walking, but she still enjoys sitting on a lap; I worked for years in the Church nursery, and I know most toddlers prefer to be on the floor getting into things. So it's a pleasure to have a little lap rat in the house. She's happy to come to me, but as soon as I get her, she starts reaching toward the kitchen, wanting me to carry her in there. She's figured out I am the person most likely to slip her a bite of squash bread or pie, or dole out handfuls of Cheerios, or feed her a banana.

Rachel, my daughter, was joining in the Wii fun while holding her granddaughter, and Kammie dozed off, unfazed by all the laughter in the room.

But then I took this picture and the flash woke her up.

Isn't that the cutest case of bed-head you've ever seen? She'd had an hour-long lap-nap, so she was ready to entertain us again once she was fully awake.

I may be the last person in the world to have found these sites, but I'll pass them along just in case somebody else hasn't discovered them. Deb, a blogger friend, mentioned them on Facebook; I think I may be using them quite a bit to watch full-length movies and TV episodes on your computer. Hulu and Fancast. There's another one, TVPC, which doesn't work unless you have Windows, which I don't. Check those out; they might save you some money spent on renting DVD's. I wish there were a way to watch them on TV. That wouldn't help Cliff, though; he has to have captions to enjoy any sort of programming.

It's three below zero here with a wind chill of minus fifteen. Brrr.