the winter of my discontent
Sigh, it is discouraging to me that I have so much I want to post about, but never get a chance until after the kids are in bed, and by then I'm too worn out to do it. I am thinking of starting a new thing where I write posts in Notepad during the day and then post them at night. You won't hate me if I'm quiet all day and then spam your flist come 10pm, will you?
We survived the storm yesterday. Ruthie went to daycare and Isaac and I went all over creation. It snowed less than predicted, which is good, but is supposed to snow again in a few days, sigh.
Today I spent the entire day in an offsite meeting, which was exhausting. Much of it was interesting, but much was also boring and I had to really struggle to stay awake. Plus I missed my internets. snif snif, woe, etc.
Ruthie's constipation problems are really starting to get me down and am not sure what to do about it. On the plus side, she actually pooped a teeny bit in the potty at daycare! My goodness. So I have started putting her on the potty here at home, which she likes, though she has not done anything in it yet. But she says very cheerily "ruthie on potty!" and is happy to sit on it for a minute or two, so that's a start.
Last week's new recipe (#3 I believe) was "Tofu in Gravy" out of The Vegetarian Lunchbasket. It is a very odd cookbook and was a rather odd recipe. Perhaps I shall find time to write more about this later. In summary of the recipe though: too bland, not at all what I expected from the name.
Tonight's new recipes #4 quinoa, which maybe shouldn't count since I just boiled it with some water, but what the hell, I never cooked quinoa before so it counts. I served it to the kids with a little soy sauce and they both liked it (yay!). Myself, I ate it on tonight's other new recipe, which I shall call #5 Improv Curry Tofu. 1/2 small onion chopped and sauteed in oil with 1/2 - 3/4 teaspoon curry powder; splash of coconut milk; 1/2 block of tofu, pressed and diced; small handful of frozen green beans for color more than anything. Salt to taste, cook until it seems done. I ate it with the quinoa and it was quite tasty. Nice mild curry flavor, quite out of proportion with how deliciously curry-y the house smelled!
Book-wise I am making slow but steady progress on both Misfortune and Carnival.
ok...like I said, have SO much more to say, but that's all I have energy for right now :(
We survived the storm yesterday. Ruthie went to daycare and Isaac and I went all over creation. It snowed less than predicted, which is good, but is supposed to snow again in a few days, sigh.
Today I spent the entire day in an offsite meeting, which was exhausting. Much of it was interesting, but much was also boring and I had to really struggle to stay awake. Plus I missed my internets. snif snif, woe, etc.
Ruthie's constipation problems are really starting to get me down and am not sure what to do about it. On the plus side, she actually pooped a teeny bit in the potty at daycare! My goodness. So I have started putting her on the potty here at home, which she likes, though she has not done anything in it yet. But she says very cheerily "ruthie on potty!" and is happy to sit on it for a minute or two, so that's a start.
Last week's new recipe (#3 I believe) was "Tofu in Gravy" out of The Vegetarian Lunchbasket. It is a very odd cookbook and was a rather odd recipe. Perhaps I shall find time to write more about this later. In summary of the recipe though: too bland, not at all what I expected from the name.
Tonight's new recipes #4 quinoa, which maybe shouldn't count since I just boiled it with some water, but what the hell, I never cooked quinoa before so it counts. I served it to the kids with a little soy sauce and they both liked it (yay!). Myself, I ate it on tonight's other new recipe, which I shall call #5 Improv Curry Tofu. 1/2 small onion chopped and sauteed in oil with 1/2 - 3/4 teaspoon curry powder; splash of coconut milk; 1/2 block of tofu, pressed and diced; small handful of frozen green beans for color more than anything. Salt to taste, cook until it seems done. I ate it with the quinoa and it was quite tasty. Nice mild curry flavor, quite out of proportion with how deliciously curry-y the house smelled!
Book-wise I am making slow but steady progress on both Misfortune and Carnival.
ok...like I said, have SO much more to say, but that's all I have energy for right now :(