The other week I had to use these slips of paper quite often. I made them to place them at bedside tables so people didn't wonder why mom "forgot" to wake them for school.
Yeah, I'm waking people again. The girls handle their morning better if I do and for now the phone hits the docking area in the kitchen by 9:30 and stays there till morning. I have no problem waking someone for that reason.
Thankfully, the weather was better this week, but the "something" bug hit our house starting last week. We've had a little bit of each kind with Joe missing two days of school with a fever.
Speaking of Joe, he/we should be searching for a new prosethetist -one who makes prosthesis. He is aging out of the Shriner's Hospital for Children. We love the people there,but I will not miss the trek down the Schuylkill Expressway. If anyone has actual experience with offices in PA who do a good job making prosthesis please send me a comment with info.
With all the days of "vacation" we had in the past couple of weeks, I finally finished this order.
Now she wants a Crazy Quilt made with silks and velvets! She wants to do the hand embroidery and I will do the sewing. I hope she has a big piggy bank!
I finally insisted that Shekinah clean off her bed. She had almost 10 dolls and stuffed animals stashed on there! She was surprised how easy it was to fix her bed after it was just blankets and TWO animals on there.
So the moral of this story is....When you cook extra potatoes to make mashed potatoes for the freezer. You need to make the potatoes that day while they are still warm. You should not put the cooked potatoes in their water in the fridge and then try to make them into mashed the next day.
They get gluey and look funny.
But since I was Raised Right I could not just throw them away.
I could however mix them into a yeast dough and make
Doughnuts.
Gluey potatoes are very good in doughnuts
*now if anyone can help me with the potato part just let me know....If I would have rinsed the potato chunks and gotten rid of the starchy water, could I have made mashed potatoes? I am cooking how many years? And I know you can't make mashed potatoes in the blender, but this piece of cooking chemistry has me puzzled.
We took a field trip this week and went to Souvalki Boys Greek restaurant to celebrate the halfway mark in her Greek language course. Good food!
Speaking of good food, I got an Instant Pot for Christmas and we're liking it.
The above picture shows what Shekinah thought of the venison I made in there the other night.
I marinaded the venison in this for about five hours. Threw it in the instant pot,
added the water and did the pressure thing for 15 minutes.
The results were plate-licking good.
Well not everyone licked their plates at least not for the camera.
So the back splash has been decided upon.
How about wooden tiles?
I'm liking them.
My dear hubby is painting them.
And I think we found the countertop that will work.
QOTD: The turning signal was not working and you know how it blinks in double-time?
We girls were headed to Walmart and Shekinah was sitting in the back. "Hmm even the turning signal is excited to go to Walmart." We probably should expand our horizons.
Another quote--same source listing her woes from the day and ending with "And my cupcake had too much icing on it!"
This was from one of the three meal events I helped with this weekend.
Hot lunch for school on Friday--sausage, mashed potatoes, peas, jello cups and bars. I was so thankful for the four other ladies who helped with prep and serving.
Saturday evening a local youth group had a culture meal and asked if I could bring "some Chinese food" selection was up to me. I decided on steamed dumplings. I think we prefer them as "potstickers" but for serving at an event as this was....these were perfect.
Sunday was fellowship meal at church, I brought a crock pot of chili. I like the way they did the potato bar this time. Frozen shredded potatoes heated in roasters instead of scrubbed, buttered, wrapped baked potatoes! No waste, no scraping shells, no deciding if you should eat your nutrients by eating the shells. Easy food, I love it!
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