Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 294

Today's Daily 5:

1. The moment after handing the grocery cashier your club discount cards, when the total owing drops by a significant amount.  (I saved $15 today!)
2. Getting up the nerve to drive to the grocery store and back
3. staying inside, cooking and resting on a rainy day
4. a bubble bath
5. pancakes for supper, made from scratch, not a mix with a side of whipped cream and fruit salad.

Haunting and Beautiful

My good friend Faye posted a hauntingly beautiful lament for her cousin on her blog this morning.

She doesn't post often, but when she does, I always find her words worth reading.

In the last year, there has been too much grief touching their family.

I'm praying for Faye, and her family today, as they once again grieve.

Thinking about Food

It's Monday morning, the first full day of enjoying house-sitting for my folks, and I am still in bed, writing with my laptop propped on top of me, and me propped on top of various pillows.

I'm thinking about food.  Because today I need to make a grocery list.  I need to go through some recipes, make a grocery list, and then go to the grocery store. 

Fruit is going to be a major ingredient on my list, I think.  I want to make a giant fruit salad, and then stash it in the fridge to be consumed all week.

And I want asparagus, and maybe the ingredients to make chicken Caesar Salad.

And I think I'll pick out a couple of new recipes.  Maybe one baking one, and one or two main courses.

I'm craving the fruit, mostly.  And other raw vegetables, too.  I want multiple kinds of berries and nectarines, and maybe some mango. 

And I'm looking forward to turning on some great music and enjoying myself in the kitchen over the next couple of weeks.

How awesome to have that chance to creatively express myself in that way again!