So glad for America and I to be back in Room 32, full of inspiring children and one very extraordinary teacher. Goals galore. They made me want to set a few of my own.
lots of soup lately, some from the freezer (not nearly as good as it was the first time around)
fabulous bean soup with honey baked ham bone (can't afford a big ham, but they sell the bones that still have tons of meat on them)
salmon and salmon salad with great croutons from the bread that isn't quite, from Rod's new bread making ventures
plain old turkey burgers, but think I'll spice them up with some pepper jelly, amazing what you can use it on, everything from fish to chicken to pork to eggs
tuna melts with the tasty rye bread someone gave me
lasagna, both cheesy and cheeseless (how not fun)
pork tenderloin and chop suey with the remains
tamales from el nopalito with refried beans and rice
Starting over with just Rod and I:
a wonderful chicken soup from that rotisserie chicken I bought a while back (I threw the carcass in the freezer)
I got to use the very cool wusthof santoku knife Rod gave me for Christmas to chop the vegetables!
tonight - I think it's tuna sandwiches as we have lots of good bread left.
Some Christmas highlights:
the rib roast at Tim and Lynne's accompanied by fabulous roasted vegetables and a gorgeous spinach salad contributed by Maureen
My African peanut stew, the beloved fish stew, steaks galore, for breakfast and dinner, blueberry waffles, lots of bacon, butternut squash lasagna, scratch mac and cheese, vegetable torte.
In a desperate hurry - I broke down and bought a rotisserie chicken, which will get a work out this week.
We got a whole 'nother pot of fabulous turkey soup from some delinquent wings.
African peanut stew
Fish stew
A rerun of minestrone, it's such a favorite
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Turkey soup with the fabulous stuffing and gravy
Penne and meatballs
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Red snapper with mango salsa
Turkey, Rod's fabulous stuffing, and, my personal favorite to top it all off - GRAVY
Saturday: steak and wine tasting with the oldie but goodie bottles from the bar
Sunday: scallops on skewers
Monday: fish tacos
Tuesday: turkey burgers
Wednesday: spaghetti and meatballs
Thursday: boboli-got scratched - instead we had the divine bacon,eggs,fried potato, biscuit supper (Rod had leftover steak - his dream breakfast for which he asks everyday-"steak and eggs today?"-my replies range from none, ihop down the road?, help yourself, smirk)
In all things be thankful. Thessalonians, via Fr. Tim in the Mitford books.
Without change there would be no butterflies.
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. Faith Whittlesey
It's better to be happy than right.
You never know what the day will bring.
We all have different gifts. Celebrate yours.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift And that is why it's called the present!
dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before sing as though no one can hear you. live as though heaven is on earth.
Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because, but for us, Christ would not be there. The Reed of God
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Books I love
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
Water for Elephants
Boys Life
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same by Sloane Tanen
The Power of Now
Anything by SARK
God Thinks You're Wonderful by Max Lucado
The Grovont Trilogy
The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kinsolver
A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
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