Happy Leap Day

Happy Leap Day.  I don’t really have much to report, but I wanted to get that in.  

We have had a couple of quiet days.  We are resting up because the next round of relatives arrives tomorrow for a week’s visit.  This time it is my in-laws who are coming.  Also known as Grandma J and Grandpa D. 

I have been doing a lot of cleaning in anticipation.  I don’t think it really does much good though.  At least the dirt is nice and shiny now.  I also spent some time with the Italian-English dictionary deciphering the instructions on the Italian Liquid Plum’r.  That stuff makes me nervous so I wanted to be sure I knew what I was doing.  I figured out the directions and gave it the old college try.  And I don’t think it didn’t do any good at all.  Oh, well.  At least I tried.  And I learned some new words in Italian that I might not have learned otherwise.  Words like scarico (drain) and impedimento (clog).  They might come in handy later.  You never know.

We also did some grocery shopping and found frozen pizza.  The C-man begged me to get them so in a weak moment, I did.  It is called Pizza Quick and you get 4 mini pizzas for about 3.50.  I think you are supposed to cook them in a toaster, but the toaster oven works just fine.  He loves them.  I tasted it and discovered that frozen pizza tastes exactly the same here.

The weather has been rainy again so that has kept us close to home too.  Today the children spent the day making paper brooms for their stuffed animals, and then flying their stuffed animals around the apartment.  From their room to the living room and back again.  All.  Day.  Long. 

We tried to go to the playground for a bit this afternoon.  We were there for about 5 minutes and then it started raining.  Princess O was all for staying anyway, but I vetoed that idea and we came home. 

Once we go here the stuffed animals began their flying exercises again.   Tom gets back from his field trip tonight.  Just in time to get a good night’s sleep and greet his parents at the airport bright and early tomorrow.  I can’t wait to see them.