Greetings on a lazy fall day. Lazy for me, at least. David had to work the Cardinals game for his class again, which meant the day did not start out in our usual Saturday fashion (i.e. late start, breakfast and Castle or Meerkat Manor episodes in bed). Bless his heart, he was out the door by 8:20. I got to head over to the computer for a little catch-up time on Facebook, then run over to Julie's to help her oil boards while Bill was at The Strange Folk Festival. Always fun times when I get to hang with Jules.
When David got home tonight he was on a frantic search for junk food, more specifically some chips. No score - Our pantry is a little sad right now. I need to take the grocery envelope and march on over to Walmart pronto. But I did mention that this is a lazy day, right? The good news is that our good friend John taught us how to make kettle corn right here in our own little kitchen. Friends, this knowledge is dangerous and the results are addicting. And I am finding that it is causing us to be on a sweets binger. The evidence? We ate dinner on Thursday night and we were so excited that David didn't have to study and we had time to hang out that we rewarded ourselves by making Betty Crocker gluten free cupcakes and homemade kettle corn. Ay, ay, ay.
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Sugar-Binge Thursday
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We ate both that night. So tonight David made kettle corn and I managed to limit myself to a small serving and an apple. We snacked and watched a show about Yellowstone winters. Just looking at those poor bison use their heads to dig through snow for grass with absolutely no nutritional value while the wind whipped through the valley in minus thirty temperatures gave us a chill, so we threw on a blanket. Somewhere towards the end we both fell asleep. Hard. We have no idea how long we were out, but it was dark when we woke up. Shockingly, were hungry again and pulled together a really lame dinner on account of this lazy Saturday. David popped a pizza in the oven. I made a Poor Man's Pizza (shredded mozzarella, turkey pepperoni and pizza sauce - microwave for 1.5 minutes and voila) and a small salad with the spinach and cherry tomatoes that Carolyn gifted us. Thank you, Carolyn! How do you always know when I run out of salad makings? You bless us! David ate the last cupcake, thankfully. Small miracle - we managed to talk ourselves down from making another batch.
We haven't shared pictures with you from the symphony at Forest Park two weeks ago or Balloon Glow last week. Both nights were so wonderful. We are loving St. Louis, indeed. That's all for now. Please keep lifting David up in prayer for school. He has three finals this week! We love all of you!
