Since we celebrated Elijah's sixth (gasp) birthday in Michigan this year, we didn't do a whole lot of partying this weekend. We did have some pizza with the Greene family and watched a few videos of when the kids were littler (is that a word?). It definitely made me realize we need to be doing more videotaping. If it weren't for Aunt Laura we probably wouldn't have any videos (she seems to be the one taping most of what we watched!! : ) ) It's amazing to hear their little voices and see them in smaller bodies.
In other news I seem to have caught whatever bug the kids had and spent much of the weekend sniffing, coughing and trying to hydrate.
The farmer's market was especially abundant this week. We bought so many foods: eggs, apples, peaches, blackberries, onions, green peppers, zucchini, squash, and a massive bunch of yellow carrots. We ran into Annie and Anja and saw many other regular faces as well.
We're having trouble with the electricity in our basement, and the dryer quit on Saturday--with a load in the washer. I had more to do, so I've been line drying. We did manage to prep food again for this week. I don't know that we NEED to live this way year-round (in the summers), but it actually is a nice way to cook. It gets all the pots and pans dirty on one day only, it helps me keep my shopping list pared down to ingredients needed for recipes, and it just feels good to know what we are having for dinner--which also equals less take out for our family!
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Hope you're feeling better! That's so smart to do all the cooking in one day, that would free up so much time from cooking every night and deciding what to make. Guess what? we're coming for your birthday! But, I don't know how to work out the cake, b/c we'll be coming from vacation (for our 5th anniversary!) in Florida that whole week unless someone wants to donate their kitchen to a mess on Friday night... :\
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