I had a meeting in St. Paul yesterday at 10 AM. I found out about this meeting last week so obviously I had been dreaming about Cosetta's since then. The meeting took 7 minutes. Cosetta's doesn't open until 11. I couldn't wait around because I had work to do so I got Taco Bell on the way home instead. If you thought you were disappointed by something lately, here's your reminder that it could've been worse.
Alright. Where were we? November? Oof. Okay. This is not going to cover everything we missed. Just a couple things to share to hopefully kick-start my interest in positing on here again.
We decided to try ice skating this winter! I was pleased to find that you don't need to choose hockey or figure skates anymore- they make recreational skates for posers like us. AND they are adjustable over a 4 size range fore kids, so God bless that person for thinking of that. So, yeah, one day we woke up and said, "Let's go to Play It Again Sports! Maybe they'll have some used skates for all of us!" This might've been an okay idea in September. In January, not so much. Anyways, $238 dollars later (ouch) we were pumped and on the ice! Dan didn't get skates and we decided this was the right way to do things- one adult on skates, one not. Or at least it worked really well for us.
I hate to break it to you all, but I am not the skater I was when I was 9. And I was barely a skater then. I did rock my rollerblades though so eventually I was moving around okay on skates. Did I try to stop by using my heel as if I were wearing rollerblades? Absolutely I did. Did it work? No. It did not. But I didn't fall, so we are still calling it a success. I was surprised to find that Oskar seems to be the one most interested and best at skating. Even to the point where he, the kid who complains about leaving the house for any reason whatsoever, was consistently asking if we could go skating. We didn't get out as much as we'd like, but he was moving well by the end of the season. Next year we might try harder to find a less lumpy rink. It sure kept things interesting though. The video below is Elena's first attempt.
Oskar had his second piano recital in February. He did amazingly well in my completely non-biased opinion. See video below if you are interested.
I have a couple non-American friends and one of the things we love talking about is food- specifically how food is different in our countries (they live in Brazil and France). We often talk about the stupid food stuff- things that are so ubiquitous in our lives that we don't give a second thought to, but make others go "What?" I even sent them each a box of Kraft mac & cheese and Velveeta and did video tutorials so they could experience these things for themselves. (I'm happy to report that Velveeta mac & cheese has received the endorsement of a Latina grandmother, so I feel like that's pretty spectacular.) The videos are ridiculous and I feel like a fool, but they get the point across. I also did chili, hamburger helper, PB&J sandwiches, crescent rolls... I think that's it so far. We were going to do Thanksgiving dinner as well, but Dan got covid so that will need to wait until next year.
Anyway, they also took note of all our different flavors of Coke, since there was usually one next to me when I was doing my videos. So, when Dan brought home a new flavor of Coke a few days ago, I did a video of the tasting. Feel free to skip it, I will not be offended, but some might find it slightly amusing. It was too big to upload in 1, so there are 3 parts. Keep in mind this was recorded for people not in this country, hence the comment about real sugar at the end. And yes, my friends speak English fluently.
