There and back again left us with pizza for dinner last night. Not that we are complaining, mind you, it was Bertucci’s pizza. We did not have quite enough for a whole meal tonight, so we experiment a little with “ricotta balls”. Living life on the edge has its rewards – tonight’s reward being delectable ricotta pancakes (the ricotta was a little wet).

After viewing The Return of the King yesterday, we found ourselves with a lack of time for making dinner. Besides, we needed to repay Grammy, Boppy, and Erin for watching the kids. We picked up some pizza from Bertucci’s and had some leftover tonight. Since we didn’t need to prepare the main course, we use Nanny’s old Italian Talisman as inspiration for the side dish – ricotta pancakes.

We both thoroughly enjoyed the movie (as we had the first two in the series). We were not the only ones that enjoyed ourselves yesterday. Our daughter took Erin to her ice skating lessons (and was able to convince her Aunt to stop at Starbucks afterwards). Our son let Grammy and Boppy tag along at the Baltimore Society for Model Engineers model train open house. Apparently he spent a full 30 minutes in one spot, watching the trains go.

Today brought much snow, which kept the kids inside for the most of the day. Robin, being eight months pregnant at this point, would have preferred to have gotten out. Thankfully, Chris left work early to avoid the icy evening rush and took the kids out to play in the snow for a while. Afterwards we go inside for a hot meal. Well, first some of us had hot cocoa, but then we had a hot meal.

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