The Happy Dead (of Winter)

             So,  here it is the dead of winter.  This actually my favorite time of year.  Seriously, I hate the heat.  Snow is really my thing.  And the fact that Feisty Pants breathes so much better when it's cold only reinforces this for me.   We also have week off from school.  Which we learned the hard way.  Not kidding,  I was discussing Monday being President's Day with FP's nurse and casually remarked, "So we will see you on Tuesday then."  Her reply was, "No, why would you do that?"  Yup, we are so organized and on top of things.  I am so glad I found out BEFORE Tuesday. Or we would have had Feisty Pants all dressed and ready to go to school and been sitting around wondering where everybody was. While Feisty Pants laughed at us. Again.  (Not even the dumbest thing I did last week, either.)

              Ahhh, well.  Perhaps we will catch up some sleep.  Before I have to beat Goo to death with a stick (because I love him, you see.)  And maybe catch up some household chores.  And hopefully NOT bore Feisty Pants to death.  I have a few ideas to try (found a new recipe for ice cream that uses snow, picked up some chalkboard paint....)  so maybe this will be a nice week after all. 

            Feisty Pants for her part is definitely up to something.  I am just not sure what that something is.  So far today she has told her father that we "need a cannon" -for our backyard apparently. And then she asked for some pleather.  When we asked her why she needed pleather, she said ,"Don't worry about that."  Now I am most certainly worried about that.   I just wish I knew what "that" was.  Pirate?  Revolutionary? Supervillain?  The mind boggles.  I guess I can take comfort in the fact that she will have harmed no cows in her plot.   Priorities matter, after all.
              So, if you are having a quiet week with your feisty one and need an idea to keep them from plotting to take over the world, here is the recipe for snow ice cream.  We haven't gotten to it yet so I cannot tell you how good or bad it is.  But anything involving snow, cream and vanilla cannot be all bad. And anything involving chocolate and snow is, by definition, awesome sauce.  Enjoy!

Snow Ice Cream

Vanilla-
1 gallon (or just a BIG bowl) of fresh snow (do I have to say not the yellow kind?!?)
1  cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup cream and/or milk
Mix, eat.

 Chocolate-

1 gallon (or just a big bowl) of fresh snow
1 cup sugar
1 cup chocolate milk
Mix, eat