07.31.04

Doughnuts to You

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:53 pm by Anne

So I got a hankering this afternoon for some hot grease cooked pastry and found a recipe at the old standby place. Alton Brown looked like he knew what he was doing so I hunkered down and started making homemade doughnuts for the first time. While Lily clamored around my feet. The dough was easy enough and the three of us played outside for an hour while the dough rose. It was lovely to behold. Then, while Lily screamed at me, all red faced and sleepy with dirty black feet, I rolled the dough out and cut it into circles with holes. These rose for another half hour while Lily got washed and settled down for a nap. Then it came time for cooking in a 365 degree oil bath. They browned very nicely except for the holes, which sometimes cooperated with flipping over but more often than not wanted to roll back over to the portion that was already cooked, in the scorching grease. I dressed the finished product with a simple glaze or with powdered sugar or cinnamon/sugar sprinkles but the best ones were glazed. In my opinion, the dough lacked more sweetness, but the texture was dead perfect.

When I first started cooking them, Shan walked over and smirked. “What?!” “Oh, I’m just laughing at the pregnant lady making doughnuts at 5PM on a Saturday night.” Then he proceeded to eat at least 5 of them. Now who’s laughing, Bozo?!

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Eating

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:15 am by Anne

What was the BS I was trying to con everyone into a few days ago? That exercising made me want to eat healthier?

HAH!

Right before bed last night I scarfed two strawberry fruit roll-ups and two tootsie pops. note to self: the *new* blue raspberry flavor is AWFUL.

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07.29.04

The Verdict

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:42 pm by Anne

Today’s news from the successful sonogram:

It’s a girl!

Lily is going to have a little sister to call her own.

And other names too of course.

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Rainy Morning

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:09 am by Anne

It’s been raining since yesterday. All gray and windy rain that the ground so dreadfully needed and only now does it seem to be letting up at all. At least for a little breather.  This morning Lily woke me up. Shan had already left to check on one of his jobs, to make sure there hadn’t been any leaks, and we padded into the kitchen for breakfast. Lily had waffles and I thought I’d try the new overpriced organic cereal. Some kind of thing with cornflakes and granola clumps and dried raspberries, flavored with ginger. It was good but probably not worth the 4 dollar price tag my pregnant desires catered to.

Then I left to check an email in the office when I heard the unmistakable slap of something falling to the floor and the subsequent pouring out of cereal. So I rush into the kitchen and find the new box of cereal completely upended onto the floor with Lily in the middle exclaiming “num num!” sigh. Her little grabby hands are getting better and better at reaching things because I distinctly recall setting this back on the counter.

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07.28.04

Talking, ever talking

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:40 pm by Anne

Lily is in a mood today. The first part, leading up to and right after her morning nap went great. A trip to the gym where she was an ideal child, no fuss-fuss when I left to work out, a nice poo when I retrieved her, cooperation at changing  in the back of the truck, trip to the grocery store, another trip by the office, and still another trip to return a bonked toner package from Office Depot. (note: the generic toners are not good, at least for old machines like the one my father-in-law employs) And then she went to sleep.

Ever since she awoke, however, she’s been a fine little toot. Nothing makes her happy or content. She ate lunch until she cried. weird. We play, then she complain-cries. I do anything remotely non-Lily related and she gets mad. Believe me when I say what a relief it will be when naptime rolls around again today.

Meanwhile, a loaf of sourdough spiked with whole wheat flour and some ground flax seeds is baking in the oven. I have plans for an interesting chicken stock based soup amended with lots of shaved yellow squash and zucchini, and some farfalle pasta. (Thank you Cooking Light) Plus a nice dinner salad and we are good to go for supper.

So I’ve started back to the gym after a month off and it is so surprising how my attitude toward eating has changed. Instead of automatically caving to junky things, I am more interested in the healthy options. More reason to stay in touch with the muscle tank I guess. Plus, there is another pregnant woman there I can compare weight gain with.  I think she is slightly behind me in time.

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Rebel

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:05 pm by Anne

Here is the deal, I really want and semi-need a new digital camera and Cess has me swooning for Canon’s new Rebel. Everything about it seems ideal and right for me and it would be nice to have a good camera before the new little one comes along. I have *BIG* plans for a Christmas card photo featuring a proud cherubic Lily presenting her new sibling.

But now I am wondering. Is there such a thing as moderately priced archival digital prints? I love Ofoto but some of the pics I have by them are already starting to fade and get a little blotchy, which is really irritating. 

Anybody know anything?

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07.27.04

Tuesday

Posted in Uncategorized at 11:43 am by Anne

This is a very interesting article sent to me by my friend John. Interesting since I just finished reading an article in this month’s Harper’s (a pretty leftest mag) in which a panel alluded to the media’s right wing bias, but naturally, they ( the panel) never provided any details to support this accusation.

Check it out.

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07.26.04

Coming Home

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:57 am by Anne

This morning I was able to sleep in, have a leisurely breakfast of toast with homemade fig preserves (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!) and hot tea with milk and sugar. Now that I’ve folded laundry, cleaned up a bit, and swam all over the internet I am ready for Lily to come back home.

Something tells me her Gramma will drop her off in the next hour or so and I have a large day planned of errand running, while this gflorious cold front is hanging around. It’s very much like a fall day outside, I have the windows and doors thrown open to let in the cool breeze but I know it is only a fluke. Tomorrow it will be back in the high 90’s but for now I am in love.

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07.25.04

The Bourne Supremacy

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:18 pm by Anne

And we just got back from seeing the movie. Very entertaining. I am really starting to like Matt Damon.

yum.

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More and more…

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:31 pm by Anne

Today she learned “please” and “thank you” and last night she learned “cookie” although she says these things like this: peese and tankoo and tootie. I think she is having some kind of mighty intelligence growth spurt too.

Last night Shan couldn’t find the remote and he asked Lily, “Lily, do you know where the remote control is?” She nodded and he followed her down the hall to her room where she pointed it to him on the floor. Isn’t that awesome!

Then, this afternoon while I trimmed roses and weeded in the back, Shan was cleaning some filter in the driveway and couldn’t reach a nearby broom. So he asked Lily, “Lily, can you hand me the broom?” And she did!

Everything is on the up and up here. And then there was the dreaded trip to the post office on saturday morning. I had stayed up the night before finishing up some baby shower invites (they are incredibly beautiful; Cess would be proud.) and wanted to get them in the mail ASAP. So while Shan worked in the shop, I loaded Lily up and we went to go wait in line. There is always a line at the PO, no matter what day of the week or what time of day, and Saturday was no exception. And there we were. We became the family unit I used to scorn back in the days before Lily. Naturally she didn’t want to be held, so I set her down and let her walk around me and the line. She’d look up and smile and screech once in a while for good measure, walk over to the copier, climb into the window and pull on the blinds, touch the trashcan. It was nice in much the same way as having a big whiteheaded zit on the end of your nose is nice.  Finally, after I bought stamps and mailed a few things off, we stopped over a t a table and I handed her my purse to get her to sit in one place for awhile as I put stamps on all the invitations. The purse is a failsafe control method.

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