We’re having such a nice weekend.  I had a great visit with my mom.  We went to a local Italian restaurant.  I made really good food choices, which is an accomplishment.  I love eggplant parm.  But I got grilled salmon with lemon butter sauce and grilled fresh veggies and a salad.  I was waffling when my mom ordered wedding soup.  I LOVE that.  I guess I’ll need to be making it in the next few weeks.

After lunch we went to JoAnne Fabrics and Hobby Lobby.  I popped out and we came home. 

My in-laws are coming for dinner today to celebrate my birthday, so I needed to get the food cooking.  I made sauce and meatballs.  We’ll have that with whole wheat pasta, a tossed salad and homemade whole wheat bread I made Friday evening.  I also made the Sue Gregg almond crunch coffee cake.  It smelled so good.

I did end up taking a nap.  I was so exhausted and I knew it would be a very late night.  So after my nap I chatted with the boys and did some kitchen work.

I picked Doug up from the truck about 9:00.  We hurried home so he could shower, then we headed out to go dancing.  We were late, but it was OK.  They were happy to see Doug walk in.  The first thing they said to him was to fix the feedback and squealing LOL.

We had an awesome time.  It is SO nice that smoking in public is now prohibited in Ohio.  This place is small and very crowded, and it was SO nice to not have the oppressive smoke!  This law is new the past 6 weeks or so.  We didn’t get home until going on 3, and I am SO tired.  I hope to nap again later on today.

So I’m waiting for the family to finish getting ready for church.  We plan a nice visit with my in-laws and Doug’s cousin this afternoon.  The boys have a birthday party this evening.  The adults were invited to hang out and play games, too.  We’ll see how late my in-laws stay.  I need a nap.  I’m thinking Doug can drop the boys and then we can go a couple hours later. 

Tomorrow we’re not having school.  We do not have school on anybody’s birthday!  Doug will be heading to work about 2.  My plan is to make more bread for the freezer and pre-bake half dozen or so pizza crusts to put in the freezer, and perhaps watch a movie with the boys.

We keep getting snow, snow, and more snow.  We have almost 2 feet out there now.  This is the first winter I’m not sick of winter LOL.  Probably because it didn’t get cold until January and it didn’t really snow until February.  But by the end of March, I’ll be ready for sunshine and warmth!  We are itching to open the lake house and do some fishing and relaxing!  The boys count down til Christmas, and as soon as that is over, the countdown for opening the lake house begins!  Who can blame us with a view like this?