We had a snowy weekend! Sunday afternoon it started snowing off and on, through Monday evening. I had a rehearsal Sunday afternoon that ended up getting rescheduled for Tuesday, right during my teaching day. I technically could have said I wasn’t free during that time, but it was for a concert this Friday that I thought was important to do well, so all my students got a break. (Only one was able to reschedule, unfortunately.) I have to remember to give them their holiday gifts in January—I got all my students a little token gift (inspiration from another teacher friend, a small nail clippers! because you need short nails to play the violin, and candy).

We ended up starting on finishing the bathroom remodel on Monday (tiling the shower stall to make it usable for next week is the plan) and then working into Tuesday morning as well. I helped Louie with the tiling on Monday night and Tuesday morning, but there are things that he needs to do while I’m working the next few days. We are on a tight schedule and I can’t quite imagine getting it all done in time, but I’m hopeful.

The living room is full of bathroom related stuff. I’m doing my best not to go insane because I’d been working the past few weeks to clean everything up and now this bathroom project is really messing up that, but I am hopeful that behind the bathroom clutter (and also similar in the basement) it will be better, and that getting the shower done is a general positive step in the right direction and I will get over the fact that the timing couldn’t actually be worse. Yes, it’s better timing to get a second shower working in time for extra visitors, but this was already a busy week jam packed with errands and extra things to do.

I got these amazing looking cinnamon rolls baked on Monday (and frozen). I used my grandmother’s recipe, which rises overnight, so I started them on Sunday afternoon. Some of her recipe is a little vague, but I managed, and then I did decide to use a butter cream icing instead of simple a powdered sugar one. I read a lot of blogs online telling me not to freeze all my cookies and cinnamon rolls, and how you should freeze the dough and freshly bake them, but honestly people, how do you prepare ahead otherwise? My mom has always been the queen of freezing and thawing baked goods (and other things) and it’s always turned out fine. In any case, I got to a post by the Pioneer Woman about cinnamon rolls and she goes over all the ways you can freeze them (unbaked, uniced, done) and basically she says, yeah, I freeze them iced and reheat and they taste amazing, and I felt like we are all vindicated.

I finished this little ornament for the tree. I like to think the cat is Miles.

In any case, I’m off to run some errands (grocery shopping mostly) and later I have a double rehearsal (that means two rehearsals). Louie is hard at work on the bathroom this morning (the semester is over so he has a more flexible schedule) and hopefully we can do it all!