Food Fight and Matching Hiking Boots

Having kind of a run-of-the-mill weekend--which is kind of nice. We're about to embark on string of vacation and hosting weeks and weekends, so we could probably use the down time. I have a bit of what seems to be just a regular sort of cold and Skip and Maddie let me lay around most of the day today. They are at the movies right now and I am loading up on Tylenol and vitamin C so that I can meet them for dinner at an Indian restaurant in bit.

The food fights with our adorable daughter have escalated. The fights are over the increasingly limited foods she will eat. Friday night, it got serious when over at a friend's house, she wouldn't even eat cheese pizza anymore because it is too "saucy". It's getting to where she can't go on outings or sleepovers because there's nothing she will eat and when she doesn't eat, she goes all Jeckyll and Hyde or whichever one of those was the crazy one. So last night at dinner, we said that she could default to her apple and cheese stick, but if she didn't eat what I had cooked there would be no dessert. That was not fun. But she ate it. I remembered that we had the rule at the Episcopal kindergarten I went to and one day I caused quite a ruckus when I decided I would rather skip dessert than eat what they served. Apparently, that was not a decision they had had to deal with and a couple of the teachers were kind of distressed. The Indian restaurant should be interesting tonight.

We're expecting snow here tonight--which is pretty unusual from what I understand. So I have on my new waterproof hiking boots. Both Skip and I had boots that I'm pretty sure we bought when we moved to Boston some years ago, and both pairs have lost their waterproofedness. I saw a sale at a local outdoors store and got a great deal on a pair. I just got the pair that was on sale and in my size. Last weekend, I sent Skip there and he came home with a sale pair was well--the exact same style. Twinkie hiking boots are just a little too cute for him, but he got the one sale pair that was in his size as well, so we're sticking with them. We should look just adorable on our ski vacation in our matching boots.

This week I have to get the house in order . In the month after we return from our ski vacation we have friends visiting from Germany, Istanbul and then Vern and Beth come from the States. We are fortunate in that everyone who is coming are some of our favorite people (poorly constructed sentence) and we are so looking forward to time with good friends and family. I see and hear of so many lonely people in this world, and I feel like we have more than our share of people who love us. We are so blessed.