Sleep In For Grandchildren, A Snow Delay Of Two Hours

Pizza Boy

It's now after 7:00 and I have been up since 6:30, awake since 6:00.  The kids are sleeping in, as they don't have to get to school until 9:00 which is great since Marisa needed the extra sleep to recover from Saturday night's sleepover.  Evie is sleeping in as well which she needs.

We had another easy weekend Sunday, what else is there I suppose.  Kids got up late, though all the adults were up early, at the usual times, sipping coffee, reading the paper on line or playing games. We knew snow was coming later in the day but it was too cold to get out and enjoy the morning although I did take Cody for a walk.  That's something that cannot be put off.  He would not let me alone until I took him out.  We decided since the kids were sleeping in to have a late breakfast, like we do at the lake. Ramiro picked up Marisa from her sleep over at 10:30,  so around 11:30, when all were up and bright eyed, Evie starting making a great breakfast, a rasher of bacon, home fries, eggs and bagels, just what we wanted.  Around 11:30, Beth went off to have coffee with a good friend, Pam, whose son, Brian, went to Fairfield Prep with Tyler and is now a sophomore at Villanova.

Costco Crazed

The afternoon flew by, not sure what we did other than take another Sunday shopping spree at Costco, our last for awhile.  Costco was overflowing with shoppers, all thinking the same thing: a winter storm is coming.  The parking lot was backed up, the lanes inside were crowded with shoppers, and the check out lines wound back to the shelves of food.  Sunday afternoon is not the time to shop at Costco.  But we did it, filling the cart to overflowing with food and sundries for the week.  I have had enough of Costco for awhile.

A Little Vino, A Lotta Pizza

I did  take Cody for another walk, read some, watched some TV, which is what we all did, dabbled in games, TV, books, and Marisa and Mitch both did their homework, which took a good hour.  Around 5:30, we opened the wine and Evie and Mitch, with help from Beth and Marisa, started making the pizza dough from a King Arthur Flour mix.  Since Mitch cannot eat wheat, he made up a gluten free dough.  Two hours later, with lots of waiting, tasting, spreading pizza sauce, adding mushrooms, sausage and cheese, Evie baked eight pizzas, twice as many as we needed, but it was good and will be great for leftovers or another dinner.  By the time all the pizzas were made, Evie was exhausted and we wondered why we didn't just buy two pizzas from Costco for 18 bucks; it would have been a heck of a lot easier but Evie said, at the end of it all, that she likes cooking.  So be it.

Marisa was upstairs and asleep by 8:00, tired from her sleepover, so the rest of us piled into the sun room and watched two more episodes of House of Cards, Season 1.  We have three more shows to go before we can start Season Two again.

It's now 8:00 and Rami is on the train to the city, Mitch is up fixing his breakfast, Beth's getting ready for her workshop and Marisa is sitting here on the couch eating Frosted Flakes with her fingers, watching a show on her iPad, and I am on my third cup of coffee, writing my blog, after having cleaned six inches of snow from the cars,  And best of all, Evie is still sleeping in.  I take the kids to school at 9:00, then we are home alone until 2:30.