Whacky Winter

Big Funny Kid decided to go snowboarding today.
In a state with no mountains.
And on a day that was (thankfully) 53 degrees.


MEANWHILE D-Gang apparently went jogging in shorts.


MEANWHILE My Mother decided to make cinnamon rolls and let me tell you what......That Woman can make some serious cinnamon rolls.



So *I* tried to stitch this whole thing together by making chili and hauling over a slight vat of it to D-Gang's house with 21 cinnamon rolls.

It is an apparently a Midwestern thing to pair chilli and cinnamon rolls.  

Personally I missed this particular boat when I was growing up here 

(I was happy with Spaghetti-O's).


OK.... so we descended on  D-Gang's tribe with chili and cinnamon rolls.

It was.........delightful.

Child #1 (Murrbeth) was on her way out for an overnight/scavenger hunt thingie.

Child #2 was wearing her signature horse sweater and I found out that she doesn't care for the Huns.

Child #3 was beside herself that we were there.  She was super focused on hugs and her new earrings and not very happy when her hair wrap ran amok.

Child #4 was dressed in the exact same pink leopard print jammies that I have.  Not that she cared about this information.  She was practicing her demure face when Big Funny Kid gave her another piece of cinnamon roll.

Child # 4 Twin was wearing a full-on dragon outfit.  And he was SUPER appreciative of the raw broccoli.  Have you ever seen a small kid in a dragon suit eat giant chunks of broccoli??     I have.  Fascinating.

We retired to the basement.  

We watched "Monster's Inc." and eventually tuned into the Golden Globes.


SUDDENLY Child #1 burst into the room with a camera.  "I need a picture of a Ginger for our scavenger hunt".

I posed. 

She left.

Tomorrow I *literally* go meet with a man who is going to build me a carousel.  Plus school, plus parenting, plus rehearsal, plus a furnace issue.


What a Whacky Winter this has been.

I like whacky.