Snow Day for both kid and me…

I couldn’t get to work today.  I should have known better than to try when I saw the 3-foot snowdrift in my driveway, which has since returned.  The wind was blowing so badly that there was about a 100% chance of going into the ditch.  The ditches here are not shallow either - let’s just say that my little square car would not have been seen from the road in the ditch. It was so warm yesterday that all the snow melted, then last night it dropped 35 degrees in 4 hours.  It was a veritable ice field today.

No going to work for me today.
Thank goodness for remote workplaces…

Glitter Glue Princess has been occupying her time with multiple sewing projects  - so far a cat bed filled with catnip, a bookmark and a totebag.

No sewing for me, though - I’m still working…

A few of her favorite things.

If I had to make a top 5 list of my kiddo’s favorite foods, I’d wager that noone, and I mean no one, would have a list similar for an 8 year old. I was remembering discussions that marketing people used to have about children’s favorite foods and how we should model our new products around them (for those of you who don’t know, I used to be a food product development geek at a major baby food manufacturer).

They were always looking for things to emulate what the “big kids” were eating, if the baby had an older brother or sister. IF my kiddo had a baby brother or sister (and no this is not pre-emptive of things to come, just hypothesizing), I don’t know if they would want to emulate this list:

1. Fondue - cheese, of course, made with swiss cheese cheddar cheese soup (my apologies for the realists out there absence of Gruyere and Emmenthaler- she likes the texture better this way - and as much as I make it, the “good stuff” would break the bank). Lots of Panera sourdough bread and diced apples for dipping. Apples and cheese - yum!

2. Spam - grilled or shredded and made into mini cupcake meatloaves.

3. Broccoli - steamed only - she can’t stand raw.

4. Spinach - raw only - she doesn’t like it’s texture after it’s been cooked. Must have bacon bits, croutons and parmesan cheese, no dressing.

5. Fettucini Alfredo - will eat it at a restaurant, but prefers homemade. I use light cream cheese and skim milk to make the “cream” part of the sauce. It comes out a bit thin, but if you don’t rinse the noodles, the sauce thickens up nicely to look just like you expect it to.

Maybe next, I’ll make a list of what she won’t eat….!

So, I’m just curious…. What do NORMAL 8 year olds eat?

They finally realized why I’ve been so happy…

I’ve been an unusually good mood at work lately - no wonder - I’ll be out from the 1st to the 9th. Duh. I won’t be picking up calls either. They just noticed that I’ve been much happier than usual.

Is it - 1-because I now have the help I need to lead productive days where I can multitask appropriately and still get lab samples done? or is it - 2-because after Friday, I won’t have to be there till the 10th? A little of both I think… If there were only a way to clone myself and get the sewing done too.

Started working on finding a decent hotel for the princess and S’s trip to DC for this summer. I’ve been trying to find an alternate to blowing all of my holiday inn points, but you know, hotels are just soooo expensive in DC if you want to be downtown and near a metro stop. I may just have to blow all my points on them for this trip, though I’d be terribly jealous, especially since I can’t go. I just wonder if the hotels are going to have any better deals for the end of june/july, since there won’t be any congress. Anyone know? Right now the dates are leaving around June 28 or 29, returning July 3-ish…