Snow and Girls

We had the Girls for our little gathering on 12/13. They were all dressed up and cute as could be. We had lunch on real china with silver and they made personalized cups and opened presents. Both behaved well and a good time was had by all!

Sunday 12/20, Lili was home and the three of us went to chase snow! We drove to Landrum (at the border of NC & SC), then took back roads to Saluda (had lunch) ,Tryon and ended up the day in Hendersonville. Snow was at least 12 inches or more. Gorgeous, cold but so much fun.

Ken, Lili and Bogie in Saluda, NC

Bogie matches the snow!! All you PETA people, he had a coat on, but it got wet and he was shivering, he did better without a coat. He loved the snow, except it had no gross smells (his favorite)

Ken and Lili in Saluda

Church in Tyron, (everybody forget this one, it could be my Christmas Card next year!!)

Hendersonville, NC - between border of SC and Asheville, NC - lots of snow.

Monday we (some SIS) members took one of our current clients (a Hurricane Katrina transplant) and her son (senior in High School) Christmas shopping. All of us should do something like this - to see how a good portion of Americans really live! The son was thrilled to get a mattress cover, comforter/sheet set and pillows (as all he has now is flat pillows and a throw on his bed) and Mom wanted movies - she hit the cheapo bin and found every scary movie they had. We did get her some of the food her regular food stamps won't bey, but those two had the best time! Tomorrow two of us are taking the Mom to her counselor to get a ham for Christmas and now that she has a walker she is looking forward to spending time in the kitchen and cook her son a Christmas dinner. We have a member of SIS that is going to help the son apply to colleges (LSU - his first choice and he qualifies for in-state - since his real home was the 9th ward) and get that boy a college degree. He is taking physics and statistics this year in high school! on top of working at Panera Bread! Very rewarding for us!