The morning started out fairly routine with a dog walk, then a trip to the ski shop to pick up some skiis that needed some adjustments, then it was off to the frozen pond to play… hockey!

Growing up, my sisters and I were all figure skaters, it was our brother (who now works for the Rangers, before that the Islanders, and Canucks) that was the aspiring Wayne Gretzky, but the sport has deep roots in my family tree.  My Grandfather played semi-pro and all my Canadian relatives have been longtime “Hockey Night In Canada” fans, so to see my little guy take to the ice and play hockey for the first time was really meaningful, kind of like watching history repeat itself.  My husband Kirt also played hockey in highschool and college (with all this hockey in my life, do you understand why I’m a big Flyers fan now?) so he was happy to organize the family hockey game, bringing sticks for all of us to use.

What a lot of fun we had, out there for hours! 

The ice was a little slushy, but it was deeply frozen, so we weren’t worried about cracking.  With the sun shining brightly and the blue sky above us, it was a little slice of heaven in late February.

I decided to come in and warm up my hands while the “boys” go sledding so that I could write a grocery list for dinner, and that’s where my second *new* passion comes in to play.  See, I’m into French cooking right now. 

Maybe it was watching “Julie and Julia,” maybe it was my husband’s Valentine’s Day gift of Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” Volumes One and Two, or maybe it’s because Saturday’s are my cheat days (and French cooking has TONS of butter and cream)– whatever the reason, it’s my latest love.

So off I go to buy the goodies that will turn into ”Supremes de Volaille a Blanc” (Breast of chicken with white cream) which I will serve with artichoke hearts and risotto.  The recipes in this famous cookbook include “delicious” ways to eat everything from brains to sweetbreads to liver, so for fun I threatened my family with the cooked goose dish, smiling at their exclamations of ”noooo” and “ewwwww.”  I think I’ll stick to chicken… (wink wink) for now.

What are you up to?  Has your day also been a strange combination of things that make you happy?

Comment, I love hearing from you all.

KL

To kick off Valentine’s Day weekend, and to encourage Philadelphian’s to come out again after record-breaking blizzards, Mayor Michael Nutter spontaneously offered to take 10 Good Day viewers to dinner. 

Of course, we had to show up to make sure he wasn’t offering just lip service, and sure enough he left a gala he was scheduled to attend, to make our FOX viewer’s his next stop for the evening.

What are you up to this weekend, are you taking advantage of the free parking deals in the city?  Happy Valentine’s Day all, and be sure to leave a comment and say hi!

Just watch the above video to find out how!

And if you sign up now (it’s free) you can send us snowstorm video for our 10 and 11:00 news tonight!  We have a special “Snow Edition” of the FOX 29 News at 11-11:30 with meteorologists Sally Ann Mosey and John Bolaris and it will be worth watching since some of the states in our area are declaring a snow emergency. We also have reporters stationed all over the area, so we have you covered… no matter you slice it.

What are you waiting for?

Startling statistics that show it’s not the boys doing most of the brawling at our children’s schools these days.  I asked Upper Darby Supt. Mike Chitwood what he thought of this violent new trend.

I worked in the Boston market for several years, and remember many a presser with then, DA Martha Coakley.  Knowing that political scene fairly well it was no surprise to me that she was up for Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat upon his passing, and like the rest of the state, I pretty much figured she had it in the bag.  Scott Brown was relatively unknown, far behind in the polls and most of all– a Republican.  What a turn of events.  This is the interview I did with FOX Boston’s Martin Morenz before the polls closed.

Lighter side note– after work last night I was catching up on TV shows and thumbing through my iPhone at the same time.  My husband sent me a text saying that Scott Brown had a journalist wife and a home in the Berkshires, so I decided to google him and learn more about this new US Senator when I discovered his daughter, Ayla, was on American Idol in Season 5.  Is there ANY news story that show doesn’t creep into?

A sunny day at the beach in Haiti.  What a far cry these pictures are from what Haiti looks like right now.

The bottom picture is of my little guy and my dad and I took it about three weeks ago while my family visited the country, as well as several others in the Caribbean.  Little did any of us know back then what devastating destruction was in store for the island not even one month later…

The people of Haiti need our support, our help, our love– and our money.

On my facebook page people have been posting ways we can chip in and do our part, so I wanted to share a couple of them since so many of you want to reach out and help this island nation.

Text–

Text  HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to The Red Cross immediately…..they will bill through your mobile carrier.

Download–

Philadelphia Area Recording Artist Billy James Would Like To Offer Relief To The
Victims Of The Earthquake In Haiti: For 3 Days ALL MONIES From MP3
Downloads Of His Songs Will Go To The American Red Cross Hatian Relief
Fund. He is suspending his normal donations to the Wounded Warriors
Fund to help the Victims in Haiti.http://fridayniteboogie.com/

Donate–

To Redcross.org.  There are volunteers down there and back home, trying to help both victim’s and family members affected by this disaster, and this is an organization you can trust to get your money to the areas that need it the most.  

Call– This is from one of our newscripts on the 6pm show tonight:

THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO SET UP A HOTLINE FOR PEOPLE LOOKING FOR FAMILY MEMBERS.

THE NUMBER IS RIGHT THERE ON YOUR SCREEN.

IT’S 888-407-4747.

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As I hear of more, I will continue to add to this list, and if you have anything else you can pass on please leave it in the comment section below.

Meantime, we just cut a promo from FOX 29 that talks about how you can help by going to our website, www.myfoxphilly.com.  Whatever you can do will help so much.  I met some wonderful Haitians during my visit to the country and it breaks my heart to think they may have been hurt or are in any kind of pain right now, let’s all band together as we would hope others would do for us should we find ourselves in this situation.

Dr. Mike joined me on the  5-Spot today to explain what salt does to us, and why it’s in our best interest to learn to put the shaker down, now.  Including me…

Big changes in the last 24 hours… what will this mean to the democratic party and who will fill the new vacancies?

BLog!