Snow Daze

Welcome to our first snow day of the season in Northern VA.  My day began with a 5:27AM call from my daughter’s school, cancelling classes for the day.  By 8:49 AM, the neighborhood kids were out in the snow (including my child) as they slip-slided away down the driveway in search of enough snow for a decent snowball battle. 

The white stuff is falling more heavily now (11 AM) and the kids (4 girls on my couch playing Katy Perry songs while taking selfies with their iPads) have had their waffles, 2 cups of hot chocolate and put their lunch order in with the chef who would, ahem, be me.  Thank god for Trader Joe’s Orange Chicken and Uncle Ben’s microwave Jasmin rice. Yessss.

I’m  supposed to help host a retirement dinner for a dear friend tonight at a downtown restaurant but, I’ve gotta say, the roads in my hilly Arlington neighborhood are pretty iffy and would only get iffier with a few glasses of wine in me….so, we’ll see.  The  organizing committee will render a group verdict on rescheduling at noon today.

Once those plans are clarified, solidified or snowified, then it will be on to the afternoon agenda…and here’s where I’d like my buddy Duncan Hines to take a big bow:  Today, we have several "recipes" to choose from, including chocolate peanut  butter brownies and pumpkin spice cupcakes made with real pumpkin!!  A tasty way to kill an hour with housebored, snowbound kids. 

I suppose I could write that memo for work…or make that call to my client…but that’s what tomorrow is all about, and it’s only a day away.  Today, I’m Mistress of Snow Ceremonies in my little part of heaven in the Great State of Virginia.

Let it snow.