Do-Overs and High-Fives: Easing into Fall…

Because it’s Friday and time for the weekly round up of the good, and the hard, the lessons learned and the things worth celebrating.

Do-Overs

Honestly, this was kind of a quiet regrouping week after last week’s deadline induced insanity.

I’m not coming up with any do-overs off the top of my head this week- though I’m sure my family could probably think of one or two little things they wish I’d do over!

High-fives

Picking up the pieces…

Lots of little things fell through the cracks last week.  Any non-urgent phone calls, emails, errands, etc. didn’t happen.  So this week, lots of them did happen.  Nothing earth shattering- but just nice to get some loose ends taken care of.

Yarn is fun!

Since my yarn stash grew so much last weekend, I’ve been in a tizzy trying to decide what to knit first.  I also got moving again on a sweater for my son that had been stalled out for a while.  At this point, I think I’m over the hump with this one and it should be finished in a matter of weeks.  Meantime, I’m playing with my new pretties figuring out gauges and thinking about patterns.

Food glorious food!

We’re finishing up the last of our bountiful garden produce.  This week I made a yummy eggplant lasagna with this recipe here.  It’s super easy- though when I made it as written, it turned out pretty soggy.  This time, I blended the tomatoes as recommended, but then cooked the puree down for about 20 minutes.  Still easy- but a much better consistency for the sauce.

I’m also having fun making homemade yougurt.  Again- easy, tasty and no multisyllabic ingredients.

Book sale score!

I lucked into the first day of the annual book sale at the local mall.  I was there early enough that the professional book dealers were combing the boxes for the genuine treasures.  I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but came away with some great stuff.  The one I dug into first was Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.  I’m about ten pages from the end and it’s one of those books I’ll be sorry to finish because it’s so good.  If you want a dose of inspiration- check it out.

And just for laughs

I’m not really sure how to categorize this one- maybe you can tell me!

Earlier this week my son was reading to himself and asked, “Mommy, what’s a TV dinner?”  I chuckled to myself as I replied, “It’s a frozen dinner.”

On the one hand, I was surprised that he wouldn’t know this- but then realized that my mealtime desperation had led to some… creative shall we say…  dinners, (and more mac and cheese than I care to admit!) but I just don’t think to find salvation in the frozen food aisle.  So I was moderately pleased that I’d managed to achieve this.

Then it occurred to me that perhaps I had been depriving him of an important experience.  It’s been decades since I ate one of these things, but I always chose mine for the dessert.  That little brownie that was always a little crusty on the outside and chewy on the inside…. And what’s not to love about the corn kernels drifting into the turkey and gravy?  Anyway… it occurred to me that next time DH travels for work, I might invite  AJ to sample such an exotic meal.

Then again, I might not!

That’s about it for me… what about you?  What do you wish you could do-over from this week?  Got any High-Fives to celebrate?  Please share in the comments!

Hope you have a totally awesome weekend!!