Be Careful What You Wish For

Last Wednesday I wanted fluffy snow for the kids to play in and that is what we got. We woke up Thursday to a bit of snow on the ground and the news reporting late start. Learning from my past mistake, I encouraged Lovey to go outside and play in it before school. While he was outside playing, it started snowing harder and they canceled school. This meant no field trip for Littlebit and no 100th Day of School for Lovey.

The kids had a great time playing in the backyard and we even go the sled out of the garage and went sledding in the overflow pond across the street. They build the Great Wall of China out of snow on my patio table and even took out a toy dump truck to move snow around the yard. It was great.

I thought we would be back to school on Friday with just a late start, but there was no school Friday. It was in the single digits and really icy. It was nice and sunny, so I didn't mind standing outside while the kids went sledding again.

By Sunday our snow finally melted and the rain came,  but the snow returned this morning. Thankfully it didn't return until after Lovey went to school. So now we have had our fluffy snow and we were able to go sledding, have a snowball fight, and make snow angels. I am ready for spring now.

Secret Dream Jobs

I have to confess that as of this moment I have two secret dream jobs. The first is to be a farmer. What?! I know, you'd think growing up on a farm where I helped hay in the summer this would not be a secret dream of mine, but I love growing my own food and picking it just before dinner and we do quite well. The spinach crop is wonderful this year. The lettuce is not doing so well, but should improve with the weather and maybe some compost. (Yes, one of our Christmas presents this year was a composter.) The zucchini should yield a nice crop again and hopefully we'll get a pumpkin this year. The onions, shallots, broccoli, and carrots are growing slowly, but the peas and beans need help.The strawberries have pretty much taken over the second bed and three of the four pots of blueberries look fantastic. (Now if I can just keep a little boy from eating all of the fruit, we'd be golden.) We've acquired a new huckleberry bush and the 4 combo fruit tree has fruit! All of these wonderful things have just caused me to dream of owning acres of my own fields with lots of vegetables, but the truth of the matter is that I never will. I will always stick to my little backyard garden, even if we buy lots of land. Why because I am kind of lazy. Lazy as in, I would much rather sit and read a book all day (which I have been known to do). I also don't like to get dirty. I don't like the feel of being dirty, um, gloves please. Even then I feel dusty and dirty, so I guess being a farmer will have to be a dream. My second dream job is to be a fancy baker and own my own shop. Now I have taken cake classes, but they are not anything amazing. I just wish they were. I wish I had tons of time to practice baking desserts and making fancy cakes. I also wish that I had the money and storage space to buy all the fancy things for baking (like the cupcake cake pan I am drooling over at Williams Sonoma - I just may have to use my Christmas gift card to buy it). My problem is that I can't cook or bake without tasting and heaven knows I don't need anymore sweets, nor do my kids who seem to move in fast forward. So again I leave this as a secret dream and hobby for when there is a need or time. It feels nice to have dreams.