After days of temps in the teens and single digit wind chills, the veggies (see before and after photos) aren’t the only ones feeling limp and floppy!  I can’t do my usual walking or gardening, so I have to get creative indoors.  Since my bone density is dangerously low, I may have to relent per doctor’s orders and do resistance training as well as more weight-bearing exercise.  Blah.  Winter.

Some things remain consistent, though.  Half the kids don’t show up at the Shabbat table, due to various mental breaks and dramas.  I even halved the already halved challah recipe, so it would get eaten.  High school clubs expect kids to somehow show up at the crack of dawn on a cold Saturday morning, meaning Avdi can’t get any sleep.  How do they expect people to function like that?!