A Snowed-In Mother’s Prayer

January 13, 2011 By 7 Comments

Dear Lord:

Please help me to resist…

  • the brownies

  • the Christmas stocking candy I found while organizing the last of the holiday loot (how do we have this much CRAP still!?)

  • the leftover pizza

  • the leftover cinnamon bread sticks and icing that hubby ordered to go with the pizza that he apparently can resist because, obviously, he’s an alien or something (has nothing to do with his stellar will power)

  • the pudding and its tempting striped bands of different flavors

  • the autographed bottle of wine from that lovely wine tasting dinner in New York that I swore I’d never open

Amen

p.s. I am trying to lose 5 pounds by the end of January and these Nashville record snow days are NOT HELPING…please God I need a thaw out day so the girls can go back to school and I can get out of the house on a regular basis or I’m going to need to go up a pant size and then I really will break into the forbidden wine bottle. Or three.

Filed Under: Bad Hair Days, Nashville, Parenting 7 Comments

The Big Chill

February 1, 2010 By 31 Comments

Harpeth Snowfall

Look really closely. See the tiny pink speck? That’s Miss C. And to the left you can see the hubby shooting some video. Miss A is somewhere to the left of me refusing to put on her hat.



Warner Park Snow

Yesterday afternoon after such riveting cabin fever inspired activities as Speed Toilet Cleaning! and Power Recliner Napping! and Marathon Phineas and Ferb Watching! and Precision Hot Chocolate Slurping! the hubby had a fantastic idea. We 4-wheeled it over to Edwin Warner Park to go for a crunchy snow walk. We ended up watching the girls sled, really sled, for the first time on the big hill that overlooks Steeplechase. There’s nothing quite as simultaneously fun and frightening as watching your children in their own luge competition.

We also shot some great video, although after the hubby handed the video camera over to me I somehow managed to film a good 20 minutes from the linty depths of my dad’s 1960s buffalo plaid Woolrich coat which I only sport when it’s truly cold. What can I say? I’m no Martin Scorcese.

It was a lovely way to end a rare snowy weekend here in Nashville.

p.s. I’ve got a great giveaway this week for a Sony Pocket Reader on my product review blog (speaking of cabin fever activities…this is an amazing device for all you bibliophiles. It’s like a portable electronic library! If you travel frequently and you love to read, this is something you must check out. And also? It comes in pink.)

Filed Under: My Girls, Nashville, Parenting 31 Comments

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