Little House on Grand Ave

Little House books have a huge fan base around here. In commemeration of Sada finishing for the umpteenth time and Alexis' first time reading the the whole series, we had dessert prarie-style. They learned the recipe from Laura and Mary, but adjusted it a wee bit since we ran out of real maple syrup a couple weeks ago. Two hours after snow storm started this afternoon, Sada ran a big bowl out to the front lawn to catch clean snow (her idea). A couple hours later, after they'd all finished dinner, she tromped out to get the bucket o' new fallen snow and we scooped up snow cones. When we drizzled warm honey on top, the honey hardened into candy but melted the snow just enough to taste like "snow nectar." Simple things can make life grand!