It's been a long, angsty, nothing-bodes-well kind of week.
But we're all still here and hanging on.
Thursday afternoon offered a pretty good moment. The Champ graduated from the Marilla Cuthbert Academy for Unspeakably Charming Children.
I expected to cry ... and I did ... but not how I'd thought it would happen.
We were leaving and I saw my family skipping up the sidewalk into the afternoon sun. We'd never be in this place again. I wasn't sad so much as relieved. Small days may be over but big days are still ahead. Onward we go.
Perhaps the best part of the week happened near the end of the day today.
A new beginning of sorts.
We went to pick up our first CSA share at a local farm.
After a little walk around the place ... visiting the horses, pigs and sheep ... we found our way back to the gathering barn.
This week's bounty: Squash, zucchini, radishes, turnips, arugula, lettuce, cilantro and something called kohlrabi, which the internets informed me can be eaten raw in salad or cooked in a stir fry.
We did both.
Ittybit ate it by the fistful as we sauteed the remainder with chickpeas, curry sauce and leftover beef.
It feels good to expand our horizons.
But we're all still here and hanging on.
Thursday afternoon offered a pretty good moment. The Champ graduated from the Marilla Cuthbert Academy for Unspeakably Charming Children.
I expected to cry ... and I did ... but not how I'd thought it would happen.
We were leaving and I saw my family skipping up the sidewalk into the afternoon sun. We'd never be in this place again. I wasn't sad so much as relieved. Small days may be over but big days are still ahead. Onward we go.
Perhaps the best part of the week happened near the end of the day today.
A new beginning of sorts.
We went to pick up our first CSA share at a local farm.
After a little walk around the place ... visiting the horses, pigs and sheep ... we found our way back to the gathering barn.
This week's bounty: Squash, zucchini, radishes, turnips, arugula, lettuce, cilantro and something called kohlrabi, which the internets informed me can be eaten raw in salad or cooked in a stir fry.
We did both.
Ittybit ate it by the fistful as we sauteed the remainder with chickpeas, curry sauce and leftover beef.
It feels good to expand our horizons.
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