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No, I'm not in hiding. You have been neglected simply because I've been penned in....by the daily grind of work/housework/chauffeuring. This old piece of mutton is finding it hard to summon up the energy needed to conquer the daily "to do" list let alone finding the creative muse needed to blog! Since I'm on a tacky, sheepish theme I'd like to let you see what a horde of hungry Irishmen did to tonight's roast....
Thursday is our Family Night when cousins Andrew and Alyssa and Auntie Peggy join us for dinner. In an effort to 'eat down' our ailing freezer we served leg of lamb tonight. Between Auntie Peggy and myself the roast with it's accompanying oven browned potatoes, rutabaga, and broccoli sides took about 3 hours of prep time....and ONLY 15 MINUTES to devour!!!!! I consider it a HUGE accomplishment that we have children who loooooove foods like lamb and rutabaga. Guess they should be known as Guatamerish, Celtinas, or I don't know maybe Spudsnsalsa?
Work...the kind where I actually have to leave the house and for which I receive reimbursement...has kept me out of the salt mine of late too. Just have one observation about the cycles of my life...
the week after our annual orchard outing ALWAYS seems to be the start of my costume season!! Whipped this up in an HOUR from SCRAPS for Mairead who needed it for a Social Studies presentation. It's very good for the self esteem when I can pull something like this off...and from scraps which means even more in these tight financial times. Now if I can somehow convince her that she wants to be an Indian instead of whichever Disney fairy she says she wants to be........
Thursday is our Family Night when cousins Andrew and Alyssa and Auntie Peggy join us for dinner. In an effort to 'eat down' our ailing freezer we served leg of lamb tonight. Between Auntie Peggy and myself the roast with it's accompanying oven browned potatoes, rutabaga, and broccoli sides took about 3 hours of prep time....and ONLY 15 MINUTES to devour!!!!! I consider it a HUGE accomplishment that we have children who loooooove foods like lamb and rutabaga. Guess they should be known as Guatamerish, Celtinas, or I don't know maybe Spudsnsalsa?
Work...the kind where I actually have to leave the house and for which I receive reimbursement...has kept me out of the salt mine of late too. Just have one observation about the cycles of my life...
the week after our annual orchard outing ALWAYS seems to be the start of my costume season!! Whipped this up in an HOUR from SCRAPS for Mairead who needed it for a Social Studies presentation. It's very good for the self esteem when I can pull something like this off...and from scraps which means even more in these tight financial times. Now if I can somehow convince her that she wants to be an Indian instead of whichever Disney fairy she says she wants to be........
LOL now you knwo every little girl wants to be a princess!! I would love to have seen that lamb before hand!! Never did eat it before so I guess you'll have to cook it for me when I make my way up north!!
ReplyDeleteGood luck on the changing the mind, really good luck.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of wondering if you were ok. I miss your posts. cute costume. I've never been a fan of lamb. roasted potatoes, yes. I hope you get through the stress of the halloween season and emerge on the other side feeling relief and satisfaction. and I absolutely love the name Mairead (I'm Irish thru and thru) and have for ever, even though I'm still not sure how to pronounce it. My Little Flower has not decided what she wants to be this Halloween -- not sure that she really understands yet what it is all about. But she does not want to be Tinkerbell, we know that much. she loves the movie, but apparently not Tinkerbell's costume.
ReplyDeletelmao so thats what happened to abbys lamby! LOL
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