2nd Swim Day – No Twitch – and Pancakes!

I’m happy to report that yesterday’s swim was successful, this time no tears at all as Ava likes her teacher and has since declared “I love swimming class!”

From that scramble we were off to Topsy Turvy with friends. Whoa the mid-term break crowd blew us away.

With the line out the door (it didn’t help that the rain set in early in the morning and was still going strong when I went to bed last night), we decided to dig in our heels so the kids could enjoy the chaos.

And frankly, it wasn’t bad once we got in the place. We found a table upstairs, put our 7 chicken fingers orders in (here they call them chicken goujons – it sounds so French and upscale, doesn’t it?) and settled ourselves into the noise.

Several hours later we sought out the kids’ shoes and made our way through the crowd, back into the rain and home again home again.

For dinner: the ever popular BFD!!!

Shroave Tuesday pancakes at our house consisted of:

- 220 g flour
- 1 t BP
- 1 t soda
- ¼ t salt
- 1 T granulated sugar
- 450 ml buttermilk (which I couldn’t find but what tastes better, I think, is sour milk, yogurt or in my case crème fraiche diluted w/ milk)
- 2 eggs
- 2 T melted butter (everything is better w/ butter)
- 100 ml milk
- And blueberries are optional (we opted out here – kids don’t want fruit messing up their pancakes)

Combine the above with pajamas, some winter Olympics, syrup & scrambled eggs with REALLY good cheddar on top. And voila.

Happy Shroave Tuesday!

Now on to Ash Wednesday.

Today’s agenda will no doubt feature more swimming, pony camp for Claire, movie for Ava and me and anybody’s guess on the rest.