Since Thursday’s dinner, as usual, I’ve been using up leftovers for meals en famille. We are hosting an AFS student from the Netherlands this semester, and she arrived on Friday night. We ate the Spanish country soup that Mark made last weekend (for the Downton Abbey 2-hour season premiere), along with leftover borscht and cheese bread and black bread and veggies & dip. Saturday morning, after the farmers market, I made pumpkin-dried cranberry muffins for breakfast. Saturday evening, our Dutch student met up with some other international students – who came in the fall – and went to the West HS basketball game. So she and I snacked on boiled eggs and beets and cheese (some purchased at the indoor market that morning). Later, after the game, we had streusel-topped apple pie with ice cream. I still think it’s a little too much streusel.
Since today is Sunday of a three day weekend, we are being a little lazy. Waiting for it to warm up to pursue outdoor activities, and trying to activate an old iPhone for our student. Ethan got picked up at 8:00 to drive back to Minnesota and college with his mom. I folded laundry, and made cherry-stuffed French toast for breakfast. I’m going to have to do actual work work later today, setting up my online courses that will start on January 23rd while I am at the ALA conference. And of course, all Wisconsin is in anticipation for the Packers/Giants game this afternoon.
