Cabin Fever

Winter sucks unless your an avid skier or own a snowmobile.  I've seemed to have been cooped up for the past couple months.  Very strange weather lately.  Thunder and snowfall.  Freezing rain, sleet and the temperature raised up to 35 degrees.  Last night we got about 5 inches of snow and now they are calling for more tonight.  The kids haven't had the chance to make a good snowman yet.  Not enough snow or the snow that don't pack.  At least they can make snow angels...then cry because they get snow in their hats and boots.  It's an easy bribe getting them back in the house...Hot Chocolate!

A couple nights ago we had a family night of shopping and going out to eat.  It has been a long time since we went to a place that serves us.  Never tried iHop and the kids wanted pancakes.  Go figure.  I've never had a bad pancake...bad service is another story.

We got seated about 6 o'clock.  Ordered about 6:20.  Got our drinks about 6:35 and our food around 7!  For as long as we had to wait the kids were pretty well behaved.  I ordered a raspberry ice tea and when I got a refill without asking, brought back was a Mt. Dew.  Okay...Wth is that?  Is that mine...I don't get it.  Oh well, I'll drink it...no big deal.

When we got the food my hashbrowns were not brown.  They were burned black.  The rest of the food was okay.  My wifes omlet the cheese wasn't even melted but at least the kids pancakes were good.  Dane devoured his and Ally ate half.  Like I say...I've never had a bad pancake.  Goodness, I could have bought a box of bisquick and fed the whole restaurant before I got my 2nd unrequested wrong drink of a refill.  Needless to say, the waitress said "Sorry it was so bad"  We didn't even say anything and she gave us the kids meals free...which was nice.  All our cloths also smelled like bacon grease so they had to get washed asap.  I don't think I will be back there for a while.  Again, the kids were good.  Dane was getting edgy and saying out loud "I'm Hungry!"  and "Wheres Food!" 

Dane finally got a long awaited haircut.  I tried to cut it with the clippers but he struggles and twitches and plugs his ears.  He cannot sit still.  I tried just to trim around his ears with a scissors and nipped his ear.  That really freaked him out so I let him calm down over the next couple days.  I let my wife cut his hair.  That is no walk in the park being just a bystander.  50 minutes later he was done and really upset.  She cut his hair to a 1/2 inch.  Very short.  Too short for my liking but I guess it will probably be another 6 months before he lets us near his hair again.