Daddy's Breakfast Cafe Opens for Business

This morning we opened a new restaurant. We served up our first breakfast and it was a success! James and Josh were the customers and they enjoyed breakfast together in our cosy dining room (a.k.a. school room). Jonathan, Jay and Mommy were the chefs and servers. We had a great time playing restuarant. Next week it will be Jonathan's turn to have breakfast with Daddy and we'll go on down the line. We hope to keep this up once a week as James' schedule allows (if he has no one in the hospital to see). James used to take the kids out to breakfast occasionally, but that hasn't happened in a long time. This saves time and money and yet gives Daddy special time with each of the kids.

Daddy was already finished, Josh still was eating

The other kids got to enjoy the leftovers

We Love Uncle Mike

We got stuck in the snow on the way home this afternoon. The snow had blown and drifted over our road and was over a foot deep. We only got about three inches, but it has been very windy and very cold. James and boys got up early this morning to shovel, both our house and the office sidewalks. I'm hoping James won't have trouble like I did (he'll be heading home from a meeting soon). Anyways, I got stuck at the end of our road, which is 3/4 miles from our home. Someone stopped to help, but only got me more stuck and landed the back tire of the van right up against a phone pole (no damage). Before I could call Uncle Mike to the rescue another person stopped to help, but I declined. I trust Uncle Mike and his expertise at getting us out of jams. He had to do it once before when we got stuck down at the river bottom in 2008. Anyways, he got me out without a problem. It is so great having him as a neighbor. He called just a few minutes ago, checking to see if James made it home yet. He probably doesn't want to get into his PJ's until he knows he won't have to go out and pull James out of a ditch (His youngest son, who lives in a trailer on our road, isn't home yet either and he may need help getting down the road too). We are so blessed to live out here on the farm.