Grey and Green

My morning coffee on Saint Patrick's Day

The last couple of weeks have been busy and we've been sick with colds and daily life just seemed to be dragging us down.  The last part of winter is so...grey.  The trees are grey, the streets are grey, the ice and old snow is grey.  No promises of winter wonderlands and Santa Claus, just grey.  I've also been dealing with ramped up anxiety, trying to get a handle on this disorder is not an easy road.

All of this greyness has left me too tired or uninspired to be cooking anything more than some basics and I thought I've got nothing interesting to share so I've been a naughty bloggess and avoided my little Blog.
But then I thought, we have been cooking and sharing with friends, just in a simpler way. 
We had a lovely Saint Patrick's Day Roast Beef dinner with some close friends and some Irish spirits.

We've baked those yummy lemon blueberry muffins, the boys and I made pancakes together this past Sunday.  Last night Lovely Husband was feeling under the weather so I got a loaf of fresh white bread and cooked up some perfect grilled cheese sandwiches.
And now the weather in Ottawa has given us a temporary summer this week.  It's summer temperatures outside with clumps of ice still tenaciously holding out on some lawns (our's included).  Tonights dinner was some grilled sausages on buns, not exciting but fun nonetheless since we get to fire up the BBQ. 
This mini-summer has had us digging out summer shoes and even shorts!  A sign that the world is waking up again.  Today is officially the first day of Spring and thank goodness for that, it couldn't have come at a better time.  However, I do have one small complaint about Spring and children.  The mud.  For the love of God if there is any mud to be found or any puddles or even smushy grass, they find it.  I spent $160 on 2 pairs of shoes for an almost 3 year old today.  What is with the price of kids shoes??  And so Ian was proudly sporting his new sandals while eating a popsicle.  Popsicle dripped all over new sandals, now we have sticky popsicle on the new shoes, 2 minutes later he's in the mud and playing on the 1 square inch of lawn that still has ice!  For Christ's sake kid, can you not wait until you've owned them longer than 10 minutes?
What was that I was saying about welcoming Spring??
Happy Cooking everyone!
J.