February 22, 2008 Snow Day

Uggggh! My first wakeup call came at 4:26 am. "We have a 2 hour delay". OK, I can live with that. I looked out the window and really didn't see much snow. But hey, who knows? The second wakeup call came at 6:29 am. "The 2 hour delay has been changed to no school". CRUD!!!! I didn't bother to look outside. I just reset the alarm from 7:00 to 8:00 and went back to sleep.

When I got up, I did look outside, and it was still snowing pretty hard. And there was a good bit on the ground too. Our street had yet to be plowed. This was NOT a good sign!!! My first chore was to call and cancel Physical Therapy. No WAY was I going out in this weather!!! Then I got started on breakfast and the pill parade. The kids were, of course, ecstatic to have a snow day. (I just keep thinking about how it's one day more in June...) They hurried through breakfast and headed out into the snow. My dear neighbor (who thinks I'm doing HIM a favor...) came and charged up the snowblower and plowed my driveway, then headed to his house to do his own. Laura measured the snow on the patio table (our usual measuring spot) and it was 4 inches (and still snowing!) By the time it stopped, we'd had a good 4.5 inches (if you can call that good...)

I just stayed in the house all day. I didn't get to the grocery store (no 10 gallons of milk, 8 loaves of bread and 9 dozen eggs for me! ) so I had to rethink some food choices--I was out of apples, nuts, pears and a few other things that I'd planned to get today after PT.

My "fill in" helper arrived about 10. Her name is Monica and she is from Kenya. Very nice, but quiet. The kids seem to like her. I spent some time reading, a nice change lately. I even ordered a bunch of books online--gotta stock up for all my summer reading!!!

I put our flank steak in the crock pot with some mangos and juices and garlic and it cooked for a few hours. Made the house smell really yummy! It turned out quite well--very tender for flank steak!

Now it's 9:00, all but the last few pills are taken, all the food is in except granola, and I'm within my boundaries again for everything. I even hit 29 or 30 grams of fiber! I guess I'll do my last set of exercises and head to bed soon. Not the most exciting day, but it sure was relaxing. And the kids behaved so nicely--almost no fighting at all!