(a survivalists journal)
The locals are starting to turn on one another. What started out as a friendly game of wrestling, quickly turned into name calling and sucker punches.
Food is getting low. There is plenty of bread and milk left, but frozen pizzas and chocolate are at an all time low. Rationing has been began.
Spirits are also at an all time low. Netflix has lost its charm and the need to get out is at an all time high.
Heaven help us!
:-)
Today will be day #4 of no school due to the snow and ice. And as I mentioned before, I am a winter-liking, snow-loving girl!
Until day 4 of it.
I'm officially over being cooped up in this house. Plus, we are almost out of toothpaste, so something has to happen fast.
Sass received some major good news yesterday, so we tried to celebrate by going to Bojo's (the closest restaurant to us). Unfortunately, after only getting 2 miles down the road and realizing my husband is way too comfortable driving a 4 wheel drive in the snow (can you say fish tails?), I, um we, decided to head back home.
And by home, I mean Grandma and Pop's where we ate spaghetti and watched Duck Dynasty and feasted on snow cream.
Speaking of snow cream, I recently figured out that it's a (mostly) southern thing. I posted an impromptu question about this on FB and overwhelmingly found out from my Northern friends that they never heard of it until moving down here.
One sweet little lady from Michigan knew about it, so my findings were not conclusive:) Although, Michigan is more mid-west than North...
The Hubs, a mid-west boy, had his first bowl and liked it! He said it tastes like vanilla ice cream, which is not his favorite kind of frozen treat, so he put Nestle Quik on is. Silly husband.
I would give you the recipe, but since in our family we "eyeball" things more than stick to a conventional recipe, I'll give you the ingredients instead.
A big bowl of fresh, white snow
Sweetened condensed milk, enough to make it creamy
A splash of vanilla flavoring
Add all ingredients.
Enjoy!
I noted in my FB post about the subject and will reiterate again because its so true: In the south, if we can make anything sweet and fattening, we will…even snow!
The snow is finally starting to melt. We have plans to take Sass out to lunch to celebrate her good her news. She found out, within minutes of each other yesterday, that she was 1-accepted into her college of choice (a tough one to get into to) AND 2-accepted into another school's honor program, which would be tuition free.
We are so proud of her! She works so hard in school and now she is able to reap some of the benefits from that.
She has a tough decision to make. We've been praying that her decision will be less about where any of us want her to go, and rather where she feels God wants her to be.
Right now, we just want to celebrate her accomplishments and deal with the decision making later!
I hope you are fairing the snowpocalypse well--I hear by Saturday we could be in flip-flops again:)
