home all day...

 ...this fine Saturday threatened to start too early, with the help of one Orange Guy, who mewed like crazy at five a.m.  It's still dark on a December morning, and a Saturday to boot, no sir, not getting up yet.  I let him out, then back under those warm covers.  Sleep, where are you?  Please, come back...

Just when I about gave up and started thinking about coffee, I drifted back off...so blissfully...to be awakened this time by whispering...no, that's a podcast.  Paul!  Seriously?  yup.

Anyway.  I was awake.  Paul gathered up the trash and recyclables and went to the dump, refilled our coffee water jugs at the town, and burnt the cardboard.  I vacuumed and puttered.  Before long, Sam and Grace arrived with Grant, Ruth, and Maeve.  The kids were coughing a bit, Ruth seemed really off...they were definitely coming down with something.  (The sad thing is I invited all the grandkids over, Molly didn't bring hers because Ophelia had a fever, Marge didn't come because Blythe had been warm last night, and Kathryn didn't come because hers were feverish last night...).  By the end of the evening, Ruth was burning up.  Grant said his throat hurt, but Maeve seemed energetic and chipper.  

Anya and Elise came over, we got out dollhouse stuff.  They also went out on the deck with Grant and played and shoveled snow for fun.  We had snacks:  oranges and blueberries, cheese and crackers and pepperoni.  Later, we made pizzas, they each got to make their own.  Poor Ruth, it was evident by then that she wasn't feeling well.  

I'm thinking we were all together on Christmas Eve, so Anya and Elise would have been already exposed.  Ben and Ashley and little Declan came over a bit later, and had some pizza with us. Evelyn was here too, so we solved some of the world's problems.  

Everyone went home, and it got quiet in here.  There are still some toys strewn around, but I'm too tired to care ha.  

Making pizzas with the kids:  I gave them each a fourth of a pizza dough, and some flour.  They took turns with the rolling pin.  Then the sauce and cheese, some had pepperoni, olives, bacon.  Two little girls ate more olives than they put on their pizza, they're like their grandma.  I also made a cauliflower crust pizza, and some chicken breast I had marinated overnight in pickle juice, it's very good browned up in the iron frying pan in avocado oil.  Evelyn brought popcorn chicken, so it was a nice little feast, with some mini cucumber slices.  

Well, I'm the only one up, and I'm ready for bed.  You'd think it was midnight, not merely 10:30, gosh I'm old.  Tomorrow, I think the other grandkids might come over, sick or not, just to get out of the house...:)

Have a good night!