7 Quick Takes (three memes today)

Jennifer, hostess of Friday's Quick Takes, is charming, witty, clever, intelligent, well-written, creative, compassionate, and FUN!
Click the link in the sidebar and join her (and US) for your 7 mini posts to sum up your thoughts
for this blogging week!

1) Snow removal guys are REALLY under-rated and sometimes taken for granted!
Seeing what my sweet husband and his crew go through gives me an up-close appreciation for the hard work and all out efforts of these guys to keep our roads safe and passable from day to day! Remember to THANK a snow-removal guy when you see one....they are away from their families for days on end...they sleep in trucks and on concrete boiler room floors...their hands get deep cuts from SALT that seeps through four pairs of gloves...their dripping wet to the bone, even with coveralls on....they're tired...they're sore...and they're COLD, but they KEEP AT IT for the rest of us!

2) I'm really looking forward to our Lenten journey this year. See THIS POST for some ideas on personal and family sacrifices to enrich your 40 Days...or to learn about Lent for the first time if you are not familiar with it. (Just use the blog search in the sidebar to pull up all appropriate past posts on the topic)

3) I am really not liking the thought that the current Administration wishes to penalize stay-at-home mothers by taking away their child tax credits...NOT liking that at all...and HOPING it does NOT happen in the future.

4) I am also really not liking it when people try to take advantage of the elderly by charging them astronomically high prices to shovel their snow...my parents have too much weight on their roof...they live in a retirement community...they have a VERY LOW roof...no danger in going up there...and someone wanted $150 to do this SMALL job...NOT liking that at all.

5) It's so much fun to make homemade Valentines! I encourage your family to do it if you've gotten into the habit of buying them at the store. This year, why not get some art paper, paper lace doilies, markers, scrapbooking scissors, stamps, stickers, etc...and gather your family 'round the table for a Valentine-making party! I just love seeing how creative the kids get and the sweet little messages that the Littles want to write on their Valentines! These "vintage" activities are becoming lost arts...restore things like this...and RESTORE THE FAMILY!

6) I have almost 3 feet of snow in my yard and yet I can't stop thinking about my garden!!!!!!!
Anyone else started these wheels in their thoughts yet?

7) RAINBOW PANCAKES....seriously!!!!! Would you EVER have thought of that? I'm so glad Nancy shared it with us!!!!!!!!!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!