The new picture on the left is one that Mini-me took last winter on a trip to Colorado. I mentioned the other night that I was looking for a winter picture for my winter posts and he remembered this one. Perfect say I!
This Week I'm:
Listening To: Radio Lab, Serial - Season 2, The Moth, StoryCorps and Happier. I'm planning on heading over to my library book sale on Thursday - I'm feeling ready to start a new audiobook finally.
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| Mini-me & Miss S |
Reading: I finished The Flying Troutmans this week and started Janice Y. K. Lee's The Expatriates. I really enjoyed her book The Piano Teacher (review here) and can already see that this one is going to be just as sad a book.
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| View from my window on Tuesday |
Making: Creamy cauliflower soup (a do-again recipe but with tweaks - definitely one that needs to sit for a day or two), chili (maybe the best I've ever made according to BG although I have no idea what I did differently!), indoor s'mores, bean dip, stuffed banana peppers, and chicken alfredo.
Planning: An impromptu Super Bowl party for a dozen of Mini-him's friends. BG is headed to Lincoln to a friend's party and I was planning on sticking close to home getting some things caught up. But you know me well enough by now to know that I'm not turning down a chance to have "my" boys over!
Grateful for: Lotions and cremes and lip balms. I cannot possibly drink enough liquids to keep my skin hydrated this time of year.
Feeling: Happy - we took Miss H to a bookstore and she actually bought more books than I did! She loves the New York Yankees and managed to find four books.
Looking forward to: A normal week. Maybe this will be that week anyway.
This week's question: What would you do with an unexpected snow day?
Hearing about your blizzard conditions and then it being 80 degrees here. It's crazy. Congratulations to mini-you's girlfriend! What an honor!
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for hand lotion and lip balm too. I just wish it wasn't such a fight to get my daughter to use either. :-(
I would love a snow day! Alas, that will likely never happen where I live. And I'd probably still have to work given the type of job I do. They'd find a way to get me in. Haha
Have a great week, Lisa!
Snow days are probably not likely in a place where it's in the 80's in February!
DeleteWhat would I do with a snow day? Be totally shocked and fascinated. Not that we've never had snow here - we do, very occasionally. Not in the amounts like you get, of course. And if you think your area shuts down - you've ain't seen nothin'. We get snow about every 5 years or so, sometimes longer. We're much more likely to get ice and sleet, but have had none of that this year. I do hear you on the dry skin issue though. My word, I slather on the lotions and other things and I still feel an itchy mess. Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteMy nephew moved to Dallas and keeps posting things laughing about us getting snow. But I keep telling him that if they get winter weather it's a whole lot more likely to shut things down entirely!
DeleteWell, it's not cold enough to have snow here in California but if I were stuck in the house w/the girls w/no school b/c of weather, I'd be knitting, sewing, and baking while they watch TV and have hot cocoa. You got a lot done. I use Goodreads and love it. I've really opened up into books through it from what friends are reading and recommendations on what I've read. I like being able to keep track of what I've read already.
ReplyDeleteI used to use the heck out of Goodreads. It's really the people I had met through my groups there that helped me get my blog going. But there's only so much time in a day and I find that I haven't had time to participate in anything through it in a long time and I'm always forgetting to log in my books read there. Which all makes me feel guilty and you know as moms we don't need any more of that!
DeleteWe seem to be on the opposite sides of the weather spectrum. It is supposed to be between 87-90 all this week in So California. I am livid. Not ready to deal with heat and really hoping all the rain El Nino promised is just delayed because we will be toast this summer if we have to go through another summer like the one we just had.
ReplyDeleteSeems like you have posted about several times when you've been getting rain in the past few weeks. Hope it's helping and not just washing the hills down onto the roads!
DeleteThat's great about Mini-Me's girlfriend! What an honor. We actually have an unexpected snow day though I have a feeling what we consider a snow day would be laughable to you! I have a feeling that the small one will spend the day in his pajamas! Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids were little there was no way they were staying in their pj's on a snow day - they had to get bundled up and get out into the snow to play. I was forever bringing them in to put on dry pants, gloves and hats! But when you're cooped up so much of the winter, it was great for them to get out and really move. Now they are forced to get dressed so they can help scoop!
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