This-n-That

Ugh.

Winter officially arrived this morning.

To be honest with you, I was in denial that it was coming. I mean, just last night I was walking Willow wearing a fleece jacket and flip flops. Surely the weatherman (ahem...weatherperson) was lying to me about the pending snow storm.

And yet, this is what I woke up to this morning...



I just wanted to stay in bed. The thoughts of driving the children to school was too much. So...being the irresponsible cool mom that I am, I let them stay home with me.

I went out to shovel the driveway to discover that my neighbour had already been out to do his and had thrown some of his snow on my driveway, just like he would do last winter. It's going to be a long winter if he keeps this up. I'm praying for a spirit of goodwill. I'll let you know how that works out for me.

I had the worst hair day in the history of....well, my hair I guess. Seriously. I put it up in a ponytail because I needed to run errands tonight and didn't want to scare people with my 'fro, and it was too tight and now I have a headache.

I know. Poor me.

My head thanks you for your sympathy.

One of my errands was to go to the dollar store to pick up some little things for Girls Club tomorrow night. We're having a Mother/Daughter Christmas party and the girls earn "love bucks" through out the year and they can spend them on items we purchase and set up as a store. I had so much fun picking out stuff for them and while I was waiting in line to pay, I started searching through my black hole of a purse to discover that my bank card wasn't in there. It was in my other coat back at the house.

Grr.

I had to leave everything there so now I have to go back tomorrow morning to start over again. I was so frustrated with myself that I had a boo-hoo in the parking lot.

Next stop was the grocery store to buy some fruit for my fruit platter, also for tomorrow night.

Do you know what I saw? You'll never guess in a month of Sundays so I'll just tell you.

A dude in shorts and a t-shirt.

Hello. Sub-zero weather with practically a blizzard going on outside and this guy thinks he's shopping in the Bahamas.

I tried to take a picture with my cell phone but he was just too fast for me.

I also need to make three dozen sugar cookies for tomorrow. Being that I need to re-visit the dollar store, prepare the fruit platter, and go to the church to set up tables & linens, I won't have time to bake as well.

So...I called on an old friend.



Pillsbury and I go way back.

I've never tried making them this way before, but the packaging boasts that they'll turn out "perfect every time!" Let's hope so.

And look at the expiry date...



It's my birthday!

Isn't that neat?

That's it for tonight. Over and out.