Forecast Today: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

The skies are dark and foreboding.  It rained all day yesterday and promises to do the same today, tomorrow and Sunday.  If I was still living in England, I may not mind this dismal weather.  It just is expected to rain there and really walking through a light mist isn’t that bad.  On our wedding day nearly 10 years ago it poured in Cornwall.  Everyone tried to make me feel better telling me, “It is raining riches,” while the photos were taken inside.  I mind the rain here in Scituate, when the weather should be cooling off.  The sun should be brightly shining through the cool, crisp Autumn air making one thirst for apple cider, crackling fires and toasted pumpkin seeds.  Instead, these showers are more like April and they are not bringing May flowers, but making wet leaves fall from the trees and rotting pumpkins laying in their patches.

One of my boys’ favorite books and films is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.  It is a fantastic book!  One we read quite often.  Imagine, amazing and fun things falling from the sky, like – hamburgers or ice cream sundaes or actual meatballs.  It would be great!  No more cooking to be done.

I think John loves the book so much because he LOVES meatballs, especially Nonni’s meatballs.  Yesterday, he raved about the meatball sub he bought at school and today I sent him off with a meatball sandwich packed in his lunch.  Yes, it is definitely cloudy with a chance of meatballs today.  Hope everyone gets to enjoy some delicious meatballs and a good slosh in the puddles today!