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Can it really keep snowing . . .
Here it is another day of ice and snow. I feel like I am beginning to whine. Yes, I would love some good French cheeses with my wine . . . I’ve always wanted a justification for using that phrase.
I haven’t been able to get to the market since Thursday due to the weather. Am I fearful to drive in the snow you ask? Yes. Simple answer. I am originally from Ventura, California. Ventura sits on the coast right between Santa Barbara and Malibu. Warm and Sunny year round. At 18, I moved to Berkeley, California to attend college at the UC Berkeley, and stayed on there to marry and raise my boys. Berkeley too sits on the west coast and it is generally warm and sunny, although does get its fair share of fog as it is a mere 5 mile span of bridge from San Francisco. My only experience with snow is skiing at Lake Tahoe on weekends and then my husband did all the driving. Now I am in Seattle, living on a street with lots of shade and we are on a steep hill. When the weather is snowy or simply cold our street ices and we cannot drive down it, or at least I cannot drive down or up it for fear of sliding right off into Puget Sound which is at the bottom of our street.
I have called the rocket scientist to pick up a few things for me on his way home from work this evening so I can make a good meal for us. I feeling the urge to cook. I do love cooking and I love reading cookbooks and creating healthy tasty meals for family, friends, really anyone. Tonight I am planning to make a casserole dish I found on Pinterest today. Pinterest? Are familiar with it yet? It is the best site on the internet these days—truly the go-to site for whatever you are in search of at any given moment in time. It will be on Pinterest.
Before I share my menu plan and recipe for tonight’s dinner I want to write a bit about my thought process on returning to work. I officially retired from social work three years ago. I retired in order to care for my mom 24/7, which is what I wanted to do. I have no regrets for making that decision. It was the right choice at that time and I would do it over again. However, now that mom is in the care center I needed something to do with my days, and as I thought about it one thing was clear, I did not want to return to social work. After 30 years working with victims of domestic violence I was done. It was time to discover a new career for myself.
I found one. Last March I became a nanny for a precious 3 month old boy, Jameson (Jay). I was with Jay, 2 days a week, until October when he entered a full-time day care center. The center was much cheaper than I was and his parents were ready for fulltime care. I took the next few months off trying to get the pocket scientists cancer treatment under control and the holidays without a commitment to a work schedule. Now I am ready to reenter the nanny world.
The interesting thing about the nanny world is that nannies do not apply for jobs with families. No, instead nanny’s register with a nanny agency and the family chooses the nannies they would like to interview and then begin interviewing process. Last week I had an email from a family, but the family needed full-time and I prefer part-time so I can have days off to schedule doctor appointments with my mom and my husband, and I simply want to work two or three days a week, not five. Today I had emails from two families looking for 2 and 3 days a week caring for 3 month olds. I so love the infants! I will call them both back when I finish this and schedule interview times to meet with them. I am excited and it you are reading this I would appreciate prayers that I do bond well and am offered a position with one of the families. I do love being a nanny and even thinking about caring for a new baby brings a enormous smile.
What I am making for dinner tonight:
Three Cheese Chicken Alfredo Bake
(Southern
