...and all that in between.
So here in PA we literally went from crazy snow storm where we all had to be cooped up in our homes and it being like 10 degrees outside to 50-60 degrees and sweat shirts... I'm ready for picnics and there is snow on the ground... nuts.
During this lovely cooped up in our home weekend, my hubs had a birthday, which he and I originally planned to go away for the weekend, but thanks to the snow, that didn't happen so we ended up sledding with my sisters and my nephew instead. Note to self, nephew is not the biggest fan of snow. He did not enjoy the snow flying up in his face. I think I'm safe in saying my family is a family of beach people... we like warm weather and sand beneath our toes, and the occasional 70 degree breeze that requires me to wear a light jacket... why we all live in the northern middle east coast of the US baffles me...
BUT! we took baby bear (who is now 2 by the way. Crazy right? I did a whole entry on my sisters baby shower for him and now he's 2!) sledding and he preferred making snow balls. Hubs tried to get him to throw a snow ball at me going, "here, I'll make you a snowball to throw at your Aunt Kelly." Smarty pants that baby bear is turns to me and goes, "Aunt Kelly, make me a snowball to throw at Uncle Dylan" love it. I am severely out of shape and the boots I was wearing were not good for ice. I ended up having a hard time walking up the hill after sledding down the long hill, then even had a hard time walking up the "baby hill" because it was so packed down from us sledding on it with the baby bear. One little girl tried walking up a certain spot and baby bear goes, "YOU CAN DO IT!' to the little girl, lol. My sister (not his mother) goes sledding down one long hill by herself and he continues to shout at her, "WATCH THE TREES!!! WATCH THE WOODS!!!" from the top of the hill. When baby bear said, "Mommy, I don't want to walk up this hill anymore" I immediately went, ME TOO! and we all went home. To prevent him falling on the ice, I was asked to carry him, big mistake. My slipper boots slipped on the ice and I went tumbling down taking baby bear with me. Thankfully I like tugged my head down trying to keep my nephew from smacking his head, and we were both ok. Two like teenage girls shrieked and the one went, 'OMG ARE YOU OKAY!" My sister immediately said the same thing, whereupon my husband picked up my nephew from me (who appeared unharmed) and went, "more important, are you okay bud?" He was and is fine by the way.
Got to knit during the cold too. Nothing is more comfortable than some hot chocolate and a little yarn while you watch the snow fall. Working on a baby blanket for someone. Not me, I also apologize again to the friend I showed it to who thought it was my way of going HEY IM PREGNANT! Little Lohkempers are coming! Nope, no baby yet!
Change of topic! Hubs and Me are Catholic, so we've been limiting how much meat we are taking in and since its Lent and we can't eat meat on Friday's anyhow we just decided we wouldn't include meat in the grocery list, at least until Lent is over. We had bacon in the freezer from before Ash Wednesday and knew it was going to go bad, so we cooked that for breakfast on the Thursday snow day thanks to Winter Storm Thor. This lead to me making soup for dinner that night as I had already cooked the veggies meant to go in it. I had potatoes I needed to use, so I made loaded potato soup, and just kind of added carrots and broccoli... it was pretty good. I had the remainder of it for lunch today. I feel a piece of Italian bread would have gone well with it. Ironically, my mother made soup tonight, and I ended up with soup as two meals today. I had to stop there to pick up stuff and she was like, 'take soup!' I didn't mind, I got to relax for some time before the hubs got home from work so. yay!
Thats all for now people! Enjoy the coming spring!
taxikab
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