the first week of school, a new tattoo and the recipe project

We started school this week, Calah in 2nd grade and Sariah in Pre-K.  We are using a packaged curriculum for Calah from My Father's World.  This has already made my life at least 8 million times easier than last year.  For Sariah, I had this giant box of pre-school-ish stuff that I had been saving from back when I thought I would write my own curriculum. Oh, what a silly goose I am! 

 
 
Here's Calah with her spelling book

 
Sariah, with her hair in her face, but at least she's not sticking out her tongue. 

...and the Boy Wonder, looking shockingly like his father after I've just mentioned the latest remodeling project I would like to start.

It's gone pretty well so far, but the lesson plans start you out gently, and ease you in, plus we haven't started piano, dance or awana yet. (Ah, Awana, the bain of my existance. Will it even happen this year? No body knows for sure because NO churches update their websites. But I digress...) So, we'll see how it goes once we're in full swing.

This week I got a new tattoo, or rather, a continuation of an old one.  I had a swirl of a bible verse on the inside of  my left forearm.  Now i have two more verses and some flowery-viney things in between. It's pretty sweet.

 
 
It hasn't peeled yet, so the colors still look very dark, but you can see it's going to start any time now. (bleh, it's the grossest part.)

I have decided to embark on a new project I am calling "The Recipe Project". This has been something i've been putting off for some time now, and will eventually make my life less complicated. Or at least that's the plan.  These projects have a way of making my life more complicated, somehow. But it needs to be done, so what the hay.

The plan goes something like this:

I will update my current filing "system", in favor of an organized, page protected 3-ring binder. (Pause a moment to consider the sheer wonderfulness of it. Mmmmm....three ring binder....)

 
Here is part of the filing "system". I call it the "basket o'crap" approach to organization.  It's possible I could get a book deal for that. Here's another part of the "system", the "broken file box":

 
Like the little picture I taped to the top? I thought it was pretty.

In the process of organizing the recipes, I will cook each one to decide if it is worthy of a spot in the page-protected bliss that will be my cook book.

At the moment I have approximately 4,000 recipes in about 15 places all over the house.  In the lean-to off the kitchen, on my computer, in a basket, in a file box, on the book shelf, in another basket...you get the picture.

The first recipe I'm testing is Swedish Pancakes.  It's kind of cheating because I use this recipe all the time, and I already know that everyone will eat it.  But, I have 6 kids to feed today instead of just 3 so we're going with a proven winner.

Even though I use it all the time, it's still written on a little piece of scrap paper and shoved into the basket...or maybe the filebox, I'm never quite sure where the recipes will end up after I use them.

Comments

[Jenna!]

That tattoo is pretty sweet! I LOVE IT!