A simple thing like multiple shopping lists, apps, stores, and pickup/delivery methods really threw me off at first.  I blame my dog injury!  (It really is still distracting me.)  I had to switch my brain over to another, more convoluted system, but I think I finally approximated the correct results, with some remaining tweaks.

It was really uncannily warm and windy out, but I didn’t have time to work on anything, nor the energy (again, dog bite!), so L and I just strolled around looking and sniffing, while on a break.  So many daffodils!  And the bluebells are about to go crazy!

K decided once again to aim high and take on one of the more ambitious, time-consuming recipes, bouillabaisse!  It’s called hands-on learning the hard way!  I hung out to “consult”, though I’ve never attempted the recipe myself.  Once she figured out that all the mussels and clams were now dead (?!) and unusable (some very happy raccoons probably didn’t discriminate!), she simplified down to the shrimp and fish, and it came out really well.  She served it with a baguette.  I have to hand it to her.  Bourdain would be proud.

Meanwhile I sorted out the fridge a little, to reduce things going bad by neglect.  It’s another concept the kids haven’t mastered yet, having nice things and keeping them that way!

Avdi took E shopping for his HS Euro-trip (Greece and Rome, so much envy!).  Avdi is in such a perpetual state of fatigue and related symptoms, it’s hard for him to function, but he can’t let up.  That’s why I’m trying my best to take on more challenging jobs to help out.  I’m getting educated!

Y keeps asking, is it time to plant his flowers yet?!  Patience is not one of his virtues.  But I feel the frustration, it being like summer out.  It’s just as well I’m tied up with other inside business to keep me from untimely critter genocide!

I’m so otherwise occupied, I keep missing holidays–they just go right on past me.  I’m not sure if Pesach will even happen, at this rate.

And now, back into the fray.