Winter Wonderland!

We got our first snow last night! It clung to every branch and tree and looked like a fairyland! Here is our backyard looking out our backdoor:

Winter Wonderland of Snow

In other awesome news, our entire server/internet crashed at work so there is nothing we can do! Wheeee!!! I told the IT guy that I would pay him to fix it slowly. Because of all the mayhem, I came home from work early and decided to settle in for a little Real Simple reading and relaxation before I shoveled. Schroeder had other ideas:

Fat larding around on my magazine

Wm and I have started our own book club. Our first book is When You Reach Me. We are about halfway through and things are really starting to get interesting. The only problem is that Wm refuses to stop calling the main character "he" even though it's a girl named Miranda. It's really putting a damper on the book club. It has been fun to hear his thoughts on what's going on! And we both think time travel is involved somehow...

They are opening a new restaurant in The Ville that is all locally sourced farm-to-table food and we are really excited about it! Well, Steve was until today. Because it opens this Friday and they released their menu. All their stuff is really healthy and Steve was horrified to discover they use only brown rice (his most hated rice). They also just opened a new cantina within walking distance and we went there while Wm was at The Birthday Party and Steve LOVED it. So he has started demanding we just go back there instead so he can get their chips and queso dip and barbacoa tacos - which, admittedly, were super good. Then, things got even worse...

Steve: I don't know....

Me: Well, we have to try at least try it! It sounds like it could be good! We can't let a nice new restaurant open so close and NOT go to at least see.

Steve: I guess. I could get a caesar salad.

Me: It's a kale caesar salad.

Steve: AGGHHHHHCK! I AM NOT GOING TO THAT PLACE.