Mass this morning at 8.
Sitting this minute at the kitchen table watching Helier do math, a protracted process. So much thinking, so little of it to do with anything arithmetical, and all of it set to an endless loop of "The Farmer in the Dell."
Crispina is in the sunroom, also doing math, romp-de-romp-de-romp, having already finished drawing and writing about polar bears and done some cursive practice. Now she's reading The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse and declaring that she does NOT want to tell me what happens in this chapter. So really it's the Top-Secret Classified CIA Underworld Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse.
Amicus got up at cow-milking time (for people who have cows, that is) to read an algebra lesson and watch a demonstration on DVD. No idea what he's doing right now; maybe algebra.
On Saturday I cooked up three pounds of ground turkey with Italian sausage spices, and today I'm making sausage-and-pepper-and-egg "muffins" for lunch. On Saturday we also joined the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, which really has nothing to do with what I'm cooking today, though I do have to pray fifteen Hail Marys. Did ten in the car on the way home from Mass; five to go. Of course, I could just go get my rosary out of my bag and pray that, but that would be so organized . . .
The dog has gone for his compost elevenses, and now he's back in the kitchen, hoping I'll drop one of those sausage muffins. Mmm-mmm, dog. Smell 'em and . . . I was going to say weep, but it's his mouth that weeps. Read 'em and drool.
4 comments:
I like the idea of preparing meat and veggies ahead.
It's making such a difference to do that. I was never a cook-ahead person, because I thought that meant a steady diet of stew, chili, and lasagne, which we might or might not actually feel like eating when the time came. But buying and then preparing, all in one fell swoop, meats and veggies to give us meal *options* that come together quickly: that's a lifesaver.
I don't know if you've visited my meal-planning blog (in the sidebar) -- I'm not really writing it with public consumption in mind, but you can sort of see how I'm planning, shopping, and carrying out my plans. Really helps to be following a cookbook that's geared towards eating well when you have to do things other than cook all day long.
Thanks!
(We decided to continue to homeschool, by the way. And it feels good.)
Good! You can always revisit that decision later if you need to, but it seems as though keeping on keeping on would be the best thing to do right after a big move.
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