Rain..Rain...go away...

But is there really a perfect day to have rain? Yes, maybe...Maybe when you're in some romantic movie set with a kissing-under-the-rain scene. Even then I think the feeling of soaking wet clothes on your skin wouldn't feel that romantic after a while. Unless of course...hmm...OK, a quick snap back to reality.

It has been raining everyday for over a month now. Not a whole day but enough times to make it hard to keep the porch clean or the shoes free of mud.

And now that it's the weekend, waking up to a rainy morning poses the ever present problem: WHAT AM I GONNA DO TO ENTERTAIN THE KIDS?

I can easily come up with a list of things that needs to be CROSSED OUT because of the rain:
- Swim
- Beach
- Picnic
- Trekking
- Soccer

yet when having to come up with the opposite list, unfortunately my braincells seem to have withered with the rain.

And then the inevitable. One by one the kids woke up.

I tried my best to bribe them with some quality cuddle time and tried to prolong it for as long as possible. 10 minutes. "Mommy, I need to go to the toilet". 12 minutes: "Mommy, what's our plan today?" 15 minutes: "Mommy, can we just watch a movie?"

Still with no plans, I lured them all to the breakfast table of some pretzels and bagels with cream cheese. Ogre-ina shake is next. Now, what?

Out of impulse, I pulled out some graham crackers and asked them to crush it on a big plastic bowl. This idea seemed like fun to them and soon all three are busy crushing the crackers. Half goes to their mouths and the other half stayed in the bowl. Good enough ratio.

I then whipped up some cream cheese (Darn, not enough cream cheese in the fridge! Maybe some sour cream as substitute?), pour it in and shove it in the oven.

The graham-crackers' decorated kids are now all bathed and standing around the oven waiting for the cheesecake.

I'm here typing with yet another pressing thought: WHAT'S NEXT?