Today is my sweetie's birthday. And what a wonderful day to have a birthday. Kiddos have a snow day. YAY! Snow day!! Lots of snow still falling, and we've already gotten about 8 inches so far. It's so nice we're all home together today, snug in our warm house with homemade waffles in our tummies.
Kev and the kids are dressing to head out and shovel snow for a while, then we're going over to Gramma and Grampa's to go sledding on the hill.
I'm still making waffles. I always make a quadruple batch of batter, and then make waffles for about an hour or two. They freeze well, and they taste about a zillion times better than the waffles you can buy in the freezer section of the grocery store. Zillion ain't no exaggeration. It's a great recipe, which starts with a dozen eggs, separated and the whites whipped to stiff peaks, which are folded into the batter last. Mmmmm.... fluffiness! Crunchy squares to hold hot (real!) maple syrup and melted butter. The kids will probably eat waffles for every meal until they're all gone.
Our kids have only ever had real maple syrup at home. My dad used to make it, but it's a lot of work. Even though Dad is still strong and pretty agile (stronger than most men his age), making syrup was too much work. It's expensive at the grocery store, but worth it. When the kids have the fake stuff at restaurants or friends' homes, they can hack it, but they sure prefer the real thing. When their friends eat here, they're so used to the fake stuff that sometimes they don't like the real syrup. It's weird. How can you prefer the fake stuff over real sweet, woodsy maple syrup??? So now I keep a bottle of fake syrup in the pantry (and that stuff lasts forever). Not for any desire to please their friends, but who the heck wants to waste expensive real syrup on a kid that would rather have brown-colored thick sugar water with artificial maple flavoring!
The only blotch on the day is that Kev has to go to work tonight for a midnight-twelve. Damn that 3-2-2 shift.
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