Saturday, December 17, 2016

First snow of the season


It's snowing! But it's so cold we can't really enjoy it. And we've already reached the high for today...16 degrees and feels like -2.

Adam's outdoor soccer game in Kansas City was canceled due to the weather. A whole day with nothing planned!

8:00 a.m.: I get out of bed. Take Ali out. Zach is still asleep. Adam is awake (I think).
8:30 a.m.: Head to the gym. The temperature is 18...the high for the day. Feels like -1.
11:30 a.m.: Take Ali for a walk with Zach. Can hardly stand the cold. Run part of the way around the block. It's 15 and feels like -4.


1:00 p.m.: Grocery store checkout...spend $228. Zach goes with us because he is going to make "mac-n-cheese in a bread bowl" and needs sourdough bread.
1:10 p.m.: I ask exactly what a "Hot Toddy" is...Scott looks it up. We decide to try it later.
1:12 p.m.: Scott decided to take Adam driving to experience it "in this kind of weather."

2:00 p.m.: I decide to make apple cinnamon bread. Zach helps.
2:30 p.m.: Scott and Adam back home. Zach is flipping markers or water bottles in his room.

3:00 p.m.: Hot Toddies are made. Meh...wine is better.
3:15 p.m.: Apple cinnamon bread tastes like cake.

4-5 p.m.: Prepare to make dinner. Zach hollows out the sourdough bread into a bread bowl. I make bacon to put on top of the mac-n-cheese, and prepare brussel sprouts (yes-brussel sprouts). Scott prepares pork chops. Adam is in his room working on some code to make a digital countdown on a Christmas tree decoration.

5-6:30 p.m. Pork chops baked. Brussel sprouts sautéed. Wine poured. Table set. Mac-n-cheese bread bowls made.



6:35 p.m.: Scott spills gravy and pork chop juice on the Christmas table runner. He asks if we can't just wash it. The runner is hand wash only. Probably a dumb purchase on my part.

6:55 p.m.: Clean up. Scott checks fantasy football. Zach is flipping. Adam is purchasing some electronic things on Amazon.

It's cold...look at the "feels like" temperature.

Fireplace on.



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