kate rothwell

After the angst comes baking of the comfort food. We're looking for easy peasy because we're gloomy, not creative, at the moment. Except--hold on--I was creative enough to come up with a recipe yesterday. You must start out with a nearly empty jar of Trader Joe's morello cherries in light syrup. Put a bunch of the cherries in something like a pie. Be left with about a cup of cherries bobbing around in lot of that syrup. Because you're cheap and those cherries are pricey, feel reluctant to dump the light syrup. (I use it to reconstitute dried fruit too--simmer dried fruit with the stuff) Ok, recipe time. 1 box of white cake mix, minus 6 Tbl (you can probably go for the whole box, but ours was missing 6 Tbl used in another recipe) 1 cup of TJ left over light cherry syrup (a bit more if you have a whole box of mix) 1/4 cup oil (a bit more if you have a whole box) 3 eggs. left over cherries (about a cup, or more if you have more) Put it all in the mixer and le...

This is what my minivan looks like after the 11th annual food drive . . . .... 56 bags v 58 2 years ago. There's no room in the car so the kids'll have to get a ride from the Flanders.

So my Thursday Thirteen author didn't show up, silly woman! I was going to skip it, but then figured what the heck. I got someone in house. Unfortunately she's not prepared for promo and she's kinda dull at the moment. 1. I was supposed to spend the morning at the high school orientation but the kid got sick. Not me! Yay! 2. Oh wait, I'm sorry you feel bad, kid. But still, it's good that it was some yucky germs forcing us out and not me running away. Yo, Boy2, here's some water and get better by Tuesday, okay? No, you can't watch tv. Read a book. Poor lil chicken. 2a update: He's already better, he tells me, but I dunno. It's been one of those up then down then up things for the last couple of days. No fever, or maybe very low grade, just nausea, headache and dizziness. One more day and we'll call the doctor. He did have an earache earlier this week. Could it be some sort of inner ear thing? Maybe? 3. The layer of dog hair on my cheap bedroom ...