Sunday Dinner, June 8, 2008

Our Vacation Bible School at my church begins on Sunday night, so all of us that are working in VBS are staying at church after the Sunday morning sermon to decorate and prepare for VBS.

Some are bringing sandwich fixin's and chips, sodas, cookies, etc. Some are sending out for burgers and other fast food for lunch.

Jessica and I are both working in VBS so we're sending Jason out for burgers from McDon*alds. Note the sandwich on the chef's serving tray, which is why I chose that particular Sunday Dinner button.

Anyway, the gist of this is that I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner this week.

If, however, you ARE cooking or have exciting plans for Sunday Dinner, feel free to share your menu or your plans in the comments.I've had Emmy today while Jessica and Jason were working. I managed to get 4 loads of laundry washed, dried, folded, hung on hangers and all put away. Boy, I don't remember it being so difficult to tend a 1 year old baby while doing basic housework. Since the high here today was 96ºF I didn't hang my laundry on the line outside, plus I had Emmy to look after.

Also somebody down South apparently left a very large door open because it's been just a teensy bit windy here today and for the last several days. With the wind gusting over 30 mph I just didn't feel like using a screwdriver to unscrew my laundry from the line, not to mention searching the neighborhood trees and bushes for my towels and unmentionables that would have taken flight for parts unknown.

In between loading and unloading the washer and dryer and putting away laundry I kept Emmy fed and kept her sippy cup filled with juice, not to mention keeping her occupied. I'm afraid the poor kid is going to think her name is "Don't!" "Stop!" "No, Emmy!" "Uh uh uh!" "Bring it here to Grandma!" Or, "Thank you, baby, that's a good girl," when she does obey me.

Jessica is taking next week off so we can both work in VBS so we'll both have sort of a mini vacation. I won't have Emmy during the day next week but I'll see her at church every night, plus I'll be riding back and forth with Jessica so I'll see Emmy then as well.I do have a bit of Emmy news to share. Jessica weaned Emmy from her bottle the week after Emmy was a year old, and the next week she took away Emmy's pacifier. Emmy's been without her bottle for 3 weeks and her pacifier for 2 weeks. Believe it or not, Emmy's done really well without both of them. She whined and cried a little the first day and night without her pacifier but she didn't throw as big a fit as we thought she might.

Emmy's eating baby foods of all types and some table food. She'd rather have table food for her entrees but for dessert she LOVES yogurt. Emmy just will not drink milk from a sippy cup. We've tried 2% and whole milk, soy milk and even chocolate soy milk, but she just won't have it.

Since she loves yogurt so much we're not too concerned, plus most of her baby foods and juices are fortified with extra calcium, vitamins and minerals. Emmy has yogurt with every meal and she also gets dairy products in cheese, ice cream occasionally and other foods.

Since Emmy started walking she hasn't looked back. As a matter of fact, most of the time she runs wherever she goes. She jabbers all the time and is adding a few new words to her vocabulary. If you ask her politely she'll give you sugar and even hugs, but only on her terms and if it's convenient for her. She's also into that open mouth kissing so you have to watch out for that. I don't know where she learned about French kissing at her age! ;-) CECIL came up this afternoon to visit for a while after she got off work. We sat and chatted a while and she played with Emmy a bit until JESSICA came to pick up Emmy. We were discussing what our plans were for supper tonight and decided to combine our efforts.

A neighbor had given Lamar and me our first yellow summer squash of the season and I'd planned to fix some for our supper, so I fixed that by halving it lengthwise and drizzling it with a little oil. I salted it and put it on a baking sheet in the oven at 350º for about 20 minutes or so, until it was browned a little and tender crisp.

Lamar and I would rather have our squash prepared that way on the grill, but did I mention that it's a little windy? We've seriously had wind advisories out for us for the last several days. With my luck even if I got the grill to light the flame would have blown out, then something would have ignited the gas. Kablooey!

Cecil was craving cheese sticks from a local pizza place so she phoned in an order for those, and while she was picking up the cheese sticks she also picked us up a dollar burger from McDon*ald's, along with some apple pies for dessert.

We laughed about our unusual food combinations for our Saturday night supper, but it was all good. I've had stranger combinations, I'm sure.I'm working on a new Summer header and background theme for my blog. I have some ideas and have even worked on a few things on my test blog but so far I'm not satisfied with it. I finally just had to back away for a little while. I'll get back to it soon, though. One day soon you'll click over to my blog and I'll have a whole new look. Don't hold your breath or wear your mouse out clicking over to check on it, though. I'm not sure when I'll get it done, but it won't be too much longer.I think that's about all I have for now. Since I have VBS every night this coming week I may be a bit scarce here on the blog. We'll see.

In the meantime, y'all have a great Sunday. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share.