I suppose it's not surprising that I managed to pick up a head cold which has made me not want to do anything the last few evenings, at the worst possible time. This coming weekend is our annual Fam Jam and I had a schedule planned out for getting my baking/cooking done, since we form teams and do all the meals from Friday supper until Monday lunch. My Mum and I are on Sunday lunch and we're making soups and sandwiches. I'm cooking corn chowder and tomato soup, while Mum is doing a vegetable soup and, I think, a stew. Anyway, Monday and Tuesday evenings were a washout because I didn't feel like doing anything when I got home from work. Last night I did manage to regroup and get started... we're serving cookies and squares for dessert, so I got some peanut butter cookies made, and the dough for chocolate chip cookies. I also started packing foodstuff that doesn't need to be refrigerated so it'll be ready to go. I would have got more baked, but had to do the laundry which hadn't been done either.
Well, last Sunday was Mother's Day; on Saturday we took our Mum out for breakfast. Then on Sunday we gathered at the homestead for a Mother's Day lunch. I sewed Mum some new pot holders since hers were looking a little... well-used, shall we say... and also gave her a book of puzzles, because she does enjoy doing them while watching TV, etc. Sunday was a bit of a crazy day because of course we all had church in the morning, then Mother's Day lunch, and then most of us picked up and travelled down to the Valley. My eldest nephew and his wife were both graduating from Acadia University on Sunday afternoon and there was a celebratory BBQ for them in the evening. Needless to say, it was pretty late when I got home that night and I was just falling into bed when I remembered that I needed to go into work early on Monday, having to be there at 8 am. Yay, me. I suppose it's not surprising that I managed to pick up a head cold which has made me not want to do anything the last few evenings, at the worst possible time. This coming weekend is our annual Fam Jam and I had a schedule planned out for getting my baking/cooking done, since we form teams and do all the meals from Friday supper until Monday lunch. My Mum and I are on Sunday lunch and we're making soups and sandwiches. I'm cooking corn chowder and tomato soup, while Mum is doing a vegetable soup and, I think, a stew. Anyway, Monday and Tuesday evenings were a washout because I didn't feel like doing anything when I got home from work. Last night I did manage to regroup and get started... we're serving cookies and squares for dessert, so I got some peanut butter cookies made, and the dough for chocolate chip cookies. I also started packing foodstuff that doesn't need to be refrigerated so it'll be ready to go. I would have got more baked, but had to do the laundry which hadn't been done either. On the topic of colds, here's the song "Adelaide's Lament" from the 1955 movie Guys And Dolls- based of course on the musical of the same name. In it, Adelaide self-diagnoses that her long running cold symptoms are actually caused by the fact that Nathan, her boyfriend of some fourteen years, won't marry her.
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