Health issues + computer problems = blog break. I’ll be back next Wednesday!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocknroll_guitar/ / CC BY 2.0 My mother has always used index cards for all sorts of notes. She always has a little bundle clipped together with a binder clip in her purse, and she’ll whip it out to record how much she spent on lunch, or to note something she wants to mention to my uncle next time she speaks with him. Her grocery lists are kept on index cards, and a running to-do list, as well. She’ll even tape an index card to her front door to Last week (or was it the week before?), I made one of the kids’ favorites – poached salmon with primordial ooze. Hmm… I think that name might need some explaining. The sauce is really a tzatziki-type sauce, or maybe a cucumber salad-type sauce. It’s very tasty and complements the salmon just perfectly. But “Mom’s sour cream and cucumber and dill sauce” was getting cumbersome to say, so we decided that we needed a new name. The day we decided that, we were watching something on the Discovery Channel, and they mentioned primordial ooze, and we thought that sounded perfect. So that’s I have not been feeling well at all lately. I’ll go into it more once I have a diagnosis (my GP just referred me to a specialist), but I am going to try to push through the fatigue and post more often! It does help me feel like I’ve accomplished something when I can look at the entries I’ve made and see what things I’ve done. AND I’m going to start with Menu Plan Monday, because I cannot tell you how much menu planning helps with both my workload and with keeping me on track. That’s not to say I always We rarely have time, with all the activities in December, to make gingerbread houses. They are such fun, though! Last year, as January rolled around and we’d missed out again, we decided that this year, we’d make gingerbread haunted houses for Halloween. I figured we’d end up doing the graham cracker house thing, but I was surprised (and grateful) to find haunted gingerbread house kits at the store! (Okay, they were haunted chocolate houses…) They were a little pricey, but with time and health issues last week, they worked out just fine. Here are the houses my kids made: I’m sorry I haven’t written since Thursday! I meant to post a menu plan yesterday for Menu Plan Monday, but I’ve been under the weather lately, and just wasn’t up to spending much time at my computer yesterday. I also haven’t felt up to grocery shopping, so yesterday was “make due with whatever is in the fridge and freezer” day. It’s a nice thing to have a decently stocked kitchen, and although I find myself wishing I’d done some batch cooking recently, I was pretty happy with last night’s dinner: Chicken Piccata with creamy polenta. Chicken Piccata
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