Sunday Dinner, February 3, 2008 & Emmy Pics

Sunday Dinner is upon us once more, y'all.

As I type this I have various parts of a chicken simmering on the stove. When it cooks and cools sufficiently, I'll skin and bone it, and tear the meat into bite size portions.

I'll use some of the broth to make a white sauce and add canned veggies to make a big chicken pot pie for Sunday Dinner. I'll refrigerate the filling overnight, then make a quick crust with an egg, milk and flour. I'll pour the batter over the filling and bake until it's hot and bubbly and the crust is golden brown.

So, if you haven't already guessed, HOMEMADE CHICKEN POT PIE is on the menu here at Diane's Place for our Sunday Dinner. I could have sworn I'd already posted my recipe on my recipe blog, but a search came up empty. There's a picture on the left that I posted when I made chicken pot pie a while back.

I don't actually use a recipe anyway. Sometimes I use cream of chicken soup for the filling, and sometimes I make a white sauce from the broth like I will tonight. Sometimes I use frozen veggies or leftover veggies. I never make it exactly the same way twice.

What's on the menu at your place? Just share your plans in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.I'm going to scatter some of the latest pictures I've taken of Emmy throughout the rest of this post. I won't label them, I think you can figure out who's who and what's what.

A little news to share: Jessica has a new job and will be working from 3 or 4 to 9 pm Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and from 9 am to 4 pm on Saturdays. She may get more hours later but that's her schedule for the moment. Jason gets off work usually at 5:30 most days.

Starting Monday I'll be keeping Emmy for Jessica again. Jessica will drop Emmy off in the afternoons and Jason will pick Emmy up when he gets off work. I'll have Emmy for several hours every day, but nothing like the full days I was keeping her before. That was just a little bit too much for this Grandma.

I think this will benefit all parties. I'll be able to get my Emmy fix almost every day without it being too tiring, and at the same time I'll be helping Jessica and Jason out. If you've never priced daycare fees for evening hours, you'd be shocked at how much they charge! And that's when you can find one that even offers evening hours. And I don't know of any daycares around here that offer Saturday hours.

Later on if it gets to be too much for me, Jessica may look for another option for child care, but for the foreseeable future Grandma will be keeping Emmy in the late afternoons and on Saturdays.Emmy is growing and learning right before our very eyes. She learns new things every day. And she's already saying "Mama", "Da Da", "Bye Bye", and "Baby". Not always on cue, you understand, but occasionally. She's clapping her hands in time, and almost, just almost, standing alone.

She's crawling like lightning and pulling up just as fast, and every once in a while she'll let go of whatever she's holding onto and stand unsupported for just an instant. And invariably seconds later she falls on her bottom. But the times she stands alone are getting longer in duration. It won't be long before she's walking and then running.

Emmy will be 9 months old on February 8th. Hard for this Grandma to believe, but it's true. If she grows up as fast as Jessica did, in a couple of months she'll be in school, and in a year or 2 she'll be married and having babies of her own.I still have to make the filling for my chicken pot pie tonight, so I'll close this by wishing everyone a blessed Sunday. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share.