New Day, New Year

Well today started out great. We went for a 4 mile run, then when we returned, I started cutting, peeling and coring apples to freeze. It was amazing how many apples I had to cut up in order to be able to freeze a little bit of it. I hope to turn the apples into filling come Christmas time and serve the pies at my annual family meal. We also played outdoors quite a bit and went for a 7+ mile bike ride tonight.

In addition, today I made breaded eggplant. Now, to understand how amazing this is, you need to know that I have never liked eggplant made by others nor have I ever cooked it myself before. BUT, today I tweaked a recipe and I breaded (this was the tweaked part) and baked the eggplant and it was FANTASTIC!!! This recipe, to my credit, pat on the back, is the 4th new recipe I have created out of tweaking (adding additional or different ingredients) existing recipes that I don't like. I just may create a cook book someday. Good way to raise money!!!

Yesterday Tuks and I along with cousin N and her parents went to another local fair. If you were at all counting we have 4 local fair in any given year. This year Tuks and I made 3 of the 4. She is quickly learning the the joy of rides and breaded cheese curds. I love them too.

Boy I just realized how many breaded things we ate this weekend, quite a bit considering we, like hardly never eat breaded or fried foods!!!

As for on the adoption front, it looks like things are going well this week for the 3 adoptive moms in Haiti, kids are adjusting well, and testing their boundaries, just like all kids do. It is fun to see the updates. Kids are also continuing to come home from Guatemala, even though there is much uprising and strife with the pending Hague Treaty being enforced.

Hope everyone had a GREAT Labor Day weekend. I feel refreshed, and am able to hit the ground running tomorrow morning.

I am ready to meet all my new students shinning faces tomorrow, who I just KNOW will be so eager for school to start for another year!!!