That's a Lotta Snow

Spring Break comes in all shapes and sizes, so you skinny sunny vacations shouldn't make fun of our big fat snowy holiday. It's not nice.

Don't let the SPRING in Spring Break fool you. It's still very much winter up here, as you can see by the height of the snow behind my 6' husband and my crazy daughter. Those are snowmachine tracks on the mountain in the background; here, let me zoom in for you . . .

Alaskans love to etch-a-sketch in the snow.

Dinner last night: homemade chicken noodle soup, toasted English muffins

Just in Time for Spring Break . . .

I hope you all are enjoying your sunshine and your green lawns. It's 7:30 in the morning, and we just finished snowblowing our driveway AGAIN.

So you go on ahead and take your kids to the beach or the park or wherever it is normal families go during Spring Break. I'll be right here stuck in a snowdrift, plotting my revenge. Oh, yes. I will make you pay, and pay dearly. When I arrive in New Mexico this summer with my daughter's soccer team, I'm going to put on a pair of shorts. And I'm going to take a picture of myself. Then I'm going to post it.

Dinner last night: chalupa in the crockpot

Don't Ask the Question Unless You Really Want the Answer

My daughter and I slipped out of our pew in the middle of church service yesterday to head towards the lobby. Just as we were exiting the auditorium, a well-intentioned man smiled at my 3-year-old and whispered jokingly, "Are you leaving already?!"

My daughter didn't break her stride as she shot back, loud and clear as a bell, "I have to go poopy!"

I'm a toddler and

I tell it like it is

Dinner last night: southwest chicken over rice, pineapple upside-down cake