We are still here, still doing ok. I hope you are too.
We started homeschooling this week, which is a lot of work. For me. More than I expected, and I did not find a good balance this week between doing my own work and dealing with the kids.
If I still drank, I would have had many many large drinks this week.
We don't get out for as many walks as I'd hoped, between me trying to get in a full days work at my desk in the basement and the quite uncooperative weather. We had a beautiful weekend a few weekends back that made met think Spring had arrived, but since then Mother Nature has treated us to a long spell of cold temperatures, cloudy days, SO MUCH WIND, and then yesterday a full on snowstorm that deposited quite a bit of snow on our driveway.
We ignored it, but it isn't melting and I feel like we are going to have to shovel but shoveling in April seems so wrong.
I am eating way too much food, especially early in the morning before anyone gets up. I guess I am looking for comfort somewhere since there seems to be very little in the world right now. I watch and read too much news and get myself upset and worried and head for the kitchen. I'm putting on more weight which upsets me but at the same time I can't seem to muster up too much emotion to care. I feel numb, I guess? Every day I tell myself today is a new day but I fall into the same patterns as the days before. Perhaps today will be different?
I just wrote out a post for the last book I finished reading - Untamed by Glennon Doyle, and one line I wrote is :
....I
resurrect myself every day, in every moment that I allow myself to feel
and become. It's my daily reminder to let myself burn to ashes and
rise, new.
So maybe today can be different.
Hmmmm, what else. We've been watching a lot of movies lately, especially the Jumanji's - both the original with Robin Williams and the remake, and last night we watched the new one, the third one I guess it is. I didn't get to hear or see a lot of it as the kids talk and fight and stand in front of me to stare at me, but what I did see what pretty cute and we laughed and I got teary at the end, and I'll have to watch it again to see what else I missed.
I have not been watching any shows for me lately - once I get The Girl to bed I try to stay away for a bit to do one last ill-advised scroll through the social medias before I get all bummed out and try to sleep, BUT 2 shows that I started and want to get back to are Anne With An E - we tried to watch this with the kids but The Girl isn't old enough to be interested and it didn't have enough guns or action scenes for The Boy and Wynona Earp, which I started watching in February when I got a gross stomach bug and was awake all night so I watched a bunch of episodes all night and Tim Rozon is deeeeeeeelightful to listen to (and look at).
ANYHOW
I started following Ina Garten on Instagram last week and she posted a link to her Weeknight Bolognese sauce which I had all the ingredients for (except the wine) and it was very delicious and 3 out of 4 of us liked it and the little one ate all of her noodles that didn't have any sauce touching them.
I have not had rice balls since I posted this THIRTEEN YEARS AGO so it was time!
I made leftover cheesy bacon rice croquettes with leftover ham instead of bacon and knew why I hadn't made them since having kids - neither kid liked them. The Mister and I did, and they were super easy, but it might be another 13 years before I get to make them again.
We love Coolio's cookbook, and especially his banana bread, but this is the first time I've made it into muffins. So good. And peeking from the back there is Spicy Applesauce Cake from Homesick Texan. It was AMAZING. I omitted the chile powder and the nuts and everyone was crazy for it. A good Sunday Dinner dessert.
Well, if you made it to the end of this your rewards are my thanks and all these delicious recipes you should try. And also this thought that we should all keep with us today, and maybe all of the days -
