Snow Day

In my dreams	In reality
I react to the news of an early dismissal with delight.  I miss those boys when they're away!	I say noooooooooo when I see the announcement on the district website. I say, It's not even raining! I say, I have statistics homework to finish!
We have a cozy chat about what there was of the school day.	My oldest wants computer time the instant he walks in the door and bursts into unexpected tears when I say we're supposed to have a cozy chat.
I make hot cocoa and we drink it together peacefully.	Four of the five hot cocoa drinkers (me included) manage to spill their cocoa.
Together we finish putting stamps and return address labels on the Christmas letters.	The toddler insists on a turn with the roll of 500 address labels.  He dunks them in his cocoa.  Twice.
Enthusiastically we plan our St. Andrew's Day dinner, a family tradition since our return in 2000 from a two-year sojourn in Scotland.	The boys declare that it ought to be a gift-giving occasion (i.e., gifts given to them, not by them).  The mom contemplates that fine Scottish tradition, Chinese takeout (takeaway, in Edinburgh).
We curl up together on the couch and I read E. Nesbit to them.	They do battle with imaginary dragons until I threaten to send them out in the sleet.
After a delightful afternoon and evening, I tuck them in at bedtime.	If I set the clocks ahead, could I get away with sending them to bed at 5:15?

Comments

[Purple_Kangaroo]

LOL. I can always tell how trying the day has been by how early I want to send the kids to bed.

[Moxie]

Bwahahahahahaha!

It was 70 degrees here yesterday.

[Rosemary Grace]

Heh, I never knew you lived in Edinburgh. I grew up there. Do you celebrate Burns Night too?

I started a pudding party tradition around Burns Night after moving to the US, I serve haggis and Christmas Pud, though I think haggis will be removed from the menu as some of my friends actually REFUSE to come in case I force feed it to them. Timourous beasties the lot of them!

[CJ]

We often do celebrate Burns Night, though not every year. Do your friends eat Christmas pud? We have found our friends and family to be firmly entrenched in the American way of thinking (i.e., Fruitcake Is Bad And Fruitcake With Suet Even Worse So Why Don't You Just Pass The Cool Whip?).

I made a vegetarian haggis last night as usual, because boiling sheep's lungs is a little too icky for me. :-)

[Rosemary Grace]

I think in their eyes the setting on fire of the pudding, and it being drenched in brandy, make up for it being fruitcake-ish. My husband is American, and leads the crowd by being keen to eat the stuff. I get vegetarian friendly ones with no suet. My boss is getting her own christmas pud this year, she has been daydreaming about it since I fed it to her!

I buy haggis, and always serve veggie version as well. Could you possible email me your recipe for veggie haggis? I've looked for a good recipe but haven't had much luck. My "real" haggis recipe's fist line is "simmer organs in water with windpipe handing out of pot". Yeurgh.