{"id":1905,"date":"2010-01-06T23:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2010-01-06T23:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:54:44","slug":"snow-day-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Snow day in Alabama!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just 2 weeks ago, we were quietly getting snowed in for Christmas in Wisconsin. It was beautiful, and in the end, no big deal. 14″ of snow, and life went on (though west of us, it was much more of a blizzard). Last week, it was snowing as we were leaving Indiana, and it kept snowing and snowing and snowing after we left on New Year’s Day. After it was all said and done, they got 21″ of snow over 5 days. Whew!<\/p>\n

Here we are at about 20degrees outside, in an “Arctic Blast” (supposedly not going over freezing for 100+ hours. Wow… and not so impressive to those of you that haven’t seen freezing in a month!!). Tomorrow we’re forecasted to get 1-2″ of snow. After our Christmas vacation… no big deal. But in Alabama, it is a big deal. School’s canceled for tomorrow at 4pm. So funny!<\/p>\n

A couple other random notes…<\/p>\n

Monday I cooked this delicious tomato soup<\/a>, with delicious melty Wisconsin grilled cheese sandwiches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And as Brian was dipping his sandwich in the creamy goodness, he said, “Wow… this is so, so good!”\u00a0 “That’s amazing,” I said, “because I didn’t even like tomato soup until this week!”\u00a0 “Mmm, this is as good as Campbell’s!”\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 What a compliment.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, the kids ate it, even though they supposedly don’t like soup.\u00a0 Josiah eats tomatoes all. the. time.\u00a0 So when I gently convinced him that it was really tomatos, he was all in.\u00a0 He didn’t like dipping his sandwich, though.\u00a0 Analise had to be reminded that she likes spaghetti sauce, so this really was the same thing.\u00a0 She gamely tried 2 bites of her sandwich dipped into it, but decided she didn’t like it.\u00a0 I’ll take that, though, as I didn’t like it until Monday!<\/p>\n

Tuesday, I used a bottle of Trader Joe’s Yellow Curry Sauce that I’ve had for a long time.\u00a0 I sauteed some chicken, added some coconut milk (bc I’d read that mellows curry flavor somewhat, and I’m not a huge curry fan), added the sauce and let it simmer for about 20 minutes.\u00a0 Served it with brown rice, stir fry veggies and Naan bread.\u00a0 It was great! Brian said, “This is as good as Surin!” (our favorite Indian restaurant).\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 What a discerning palate\u00a0 my hubby has!\u00a0 But I’ll keep him… so glad he enjoys my food, because I enjoy cooking for him!<\/p>\n

The kids had grilled chicken and rice, and they were intrigued that ours was yellow.\u00a0 Brian explained it was Indian, and Analise wanted to know know why there was Indian food.\u00a0 “Because Indian’s have to eat, too!” was his quick response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just 2 weeks ago, we were quietly getting snowed in for Christmas in Wisconsin. It was beautiful, and in the end, no big deal. 14″ of snow, and life went on (though west of us, it was much more of a blizzard). Last week, it was snowing as we were leaving Indiana, and it kept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-grind","tag-recipe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-uJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}