Saturday, February 8th, 2014
Today we woke up to a white landscape. Last night about 7pm snow began to fall. We were told we could get up to 2 inches. The storm had other ideas...it went farther south and dumped more on them and only gave us an inch to half inch. Just enough to snarl traffic in the capital city as it hit at rush hour. See this is the south and we are not used to snow and how to drive on it. Teenage boys just gas it and fish tail and girls just stop and cry. It was so bad last night many just pulled over, parked, and walked the rest of the way. We do not have the infrastructure here to handle snow. We have a few sand trucks and scrapers and they tend to go out during the storm and not before unless we know for sure....and that is the kicker the forecasters have not had a clue as the storms are not behaving as predicted. My brother in law noticed this am that down here we are awesome at predicting tornadic storms but suck at winter weather predictions. Thankfully hubby got home before it hit and I already had kids and did not have to get out. It was very pretty this am and tonight I noticed the light glow outside as the lights and moon reflect off of it. Sometimes I wish we would have more snow that I could look out and see the moon and stars reflect off of... sometimes...and only at Christmas. The girls got out and tried to make snowmen to no avail as the snow was sticky but did not hold together well. Most of it melted off the road but will refreeze tonight.
Speaking of refreezing, I was supposed to have a jewelry party today but the weather postponed it to tomorrow we hope. I had made some awesome Pecan Squares and GF cheesecake (a Pioneer Woman recipe I adapted and made GF) earlier and was cleaning today. The good news it gave me another day to clean at a slower pace and get laundry done. I was excited but disappointed that we had to move it. Such is life. At least I had plenty of squares...
So I since I was taking my time cleaning, I kept noticing the same Lego figure moving around. Either it is alive or Monkey is messing with my mind! Actually, she just loves to play with it and picks it up and then lays it down along with 60 other random toys. Mostly they lay Legos and Littlest Pet Shop toys on a multicolored dragon rug. I keep shoes on b/c of my collapsed arches but hubby doesn't so all I hear is a crunch when I step on things but he feels the pain when he does it. He shrieks like some wild animal dying in the woods. We all run for our lives.
Tonight we started a new thing. I told the girls that they must try some of what dad and I are eating for dinner (if they are not already eating what we are). I fixed spaghetti and meatballs. I normally fix spaghetti with meat sauce that I make from scratch. I decided to try a new recipe...we all decided we liked mine better. Monkey obeyed and immediately tried it and declared she didn't want anymore. Lawyer has this mental block that she has to sit and stare at it and think about it until the food is cold and even hubby or I wouldn't like it. She finally did try it (she normally likes my spaghetti minus the meat) and she ate it. She was still dragging her feet though and she brought her plate for me to check progress and I thought she was balking so I threw rest of it out. I felt bad for her b/c she was trying to eat! The odd thing is that I can easily get both girls to try a new dessert but not a new food. Why is that? I mean I know it is a dessert but still! Lawyer doesn't like nuts generally but she has been more willing of late to try some and likes sunflower seeds and my granola bars that have pecans and almonds in. So she wanted to try the pecan squares. She fell in love so I will chalk that up to a victory tonight. Hey, I take anything I can get!
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