More snow!

It seems like we've had flurries just about every day since my last post, but on Friday, we finally woke up to a little accumulation (about an inch or two).

Today, it's supposed to snow all day, leaving us with 3-5 inches by tomorrow midday. Mark has a final tomorrow morning, so we're hoping the roads won't be too bad. Otherwise, it's pretty exciting to have more snow! (I especially like sitting on the couch watching it out the window when I don't have anywhere to go. :-) Here's what it looks like now (from the kitchen window):

The semester is almost over; I taught my last two classes on Thursday. Since then, I've been calculating final grades and writing progress reports. (I never had to do the progress reports at UA, so that's a bit different for me). I think that overall, the end of the semester has been much easier for me now that I'm just teaching. In fact, I'm feeling a little guilty about spending my day relaxing today while Mark is working on a final paper. I do have a bit more work to do to wrap things up, and I'd like to at least start thinking about the spring semester before we head back home for the holidays. But I've decided those tasks can wait till Monday. I expect to have my last day in the office on Wednesday, then I'll have a few days to relax and prepare for another trip back to ABQ.

We also had holiday parties for the English department and the Percussion Studio this weekend, so that was kind of fun. And I've been baking cookies like crazy. Here are the pretty sugar cookies I made this weekend (using the same recipes I used for Valentine's). Yum.