What does it say about this past week that all of the photos I've taken are of food?
Let's go with: it's fall and food is always on my mind and at the front of my to-do list when it's fall. I've been slowly pondering what a gluten-free Thanksgiving will look like and how I'm going to adapt lebkucken to non-wheat flours. In the last week, I've made gluten-free veggie pizza, chicken stock (pictures and tutorial this week?), gluten-free peanut butter cookies (which then got adapted to unrefined sugar and gluten-free peanut butter cookies - recipe coming soon), totally flopped pumpkin muffins (another post on the importance of mis en place is in the works) and taken care of all of my regular kitchen chores. Applesauce is hopeful for today, along with potato soup.
I've not the only person that's been busy at our house.
In the 6 weeks since I last posted a Week in Review, there have been some huge changes in Hanna's life. We all had to finally accept that 1,000 student middle school isn't a place where she is going to bloom, thrive or perhaps even survive. After a lot of frustration, prayer, seeking and finally deciding to just trust God and go for it, we enrolled her at a very small Christian school. It's a one room school house type school with 43 students in grades kindergarten through 12. She has her own, private workspace and is able to work at her own pace. She's starting most of her classes at the eighth grade level and is falling in love with the school, the students and the directors. We are too, but more than that we're so happy to have back our learning loving girl and her cheery, happy self.
Caleb missed two days of school this week - for an asthma attack on Monday and an allergy attack on Friday. While I love this change in the weather, it hasn't been the most positive for his health. He loves school - loves to sit down with me and show me his work from the past week, talks about his friends and the things they do and has acquired a certain talent for making things out of paper. Our home is littered with paper airplanes...paper claws...paper bits and pieces...everywhere. He started up another round of Little Athletes at church, this one much smaller than the last. He's the only boy, but it doesn't seem to bother him one bit!
Tom is in the thick of school, in the thick of ministry and working hard to balance that all with our needs at home. He's praying about working towards a different masters degree, one that would only require one more semester of school instead of two to three more years. He's getting prepped for the high school retreat in southern Georgia next weekend, and helping to start a monthly Cafe Night at church tonight. We were able to get together with dear friends last night for dinner, and it was a much needed time for him to cut loose a bit (me too).
I am trying to find our new normal - when can I work, what do I need to do, still working my way through new schedules and needs. Praying about going back to school...someday...maybe...if it all comes together. Trying to get back to listing regularly on eBay. Working to stay gluten-free after nearly seven weeks and continuing to feel so much better. Contemplating actually doing a simplified December Daily album this year. Spending too much time thinking about the upcoming holidays and getting excited.
Another week that has made me so thankful, so grateful and so happy to be part of my little family.
I'll be interested in learning what your gf T-giving looks like. I'm still trying to figure out a sf one. Yea for unrefined sugar and gluten-free peanut butter cookies :).
I miss seeing Hanna every few weeks but at least she's doing well. Wish I had known about a school like that when we moved down here. Would have done Jenny a world of good.
I should have Caleb show me how to make a paper airplane. The ones I do make either don't look right or they don't fly or both :(.
Dang it! I forgot about Cafe nite tonight :(
Posted by: Kathy Werner | October 16, 2010 at 06:39 PM