S-A-TUR-DAY ... Night!

I should be in bed.

I was up doing the small church newsletter. Now I just have to remember to TAKE it to church. Don't you hate when you're doing something a newsletter and the necessary info doesn't quite fit on one page, so you have three choices: Make it tiny text to cram it in one page, make it big huge text to fill up two pages, or invent some content to fill the space. I chose option three, and surfed up some corny Valentine word finds, scrambles, and word ladders. The newsletter is about 45% fluff. Oh well. I guess I could've invented some real content, but then I would've been up even later.

While I was up late, I saw how pretty our icicles look with the back floodlight shining through them. But I couldn't get a good non-flash picture without a tripod and more camera knowledge. Someday I will learn what to do to take low-light pictures. Not tonight. So here's one with the flash, looking up the icicles.

In food news, our meals weren't all that exciting today. Leftovers for lunch. For dinner I was craving egg rolls, but of course those aren't low-fat, and I haven't found egg-free egg roll wrappers locally, and blah blah blah. I was running out of time, too. I actually do have some rice paper wrapper things ... is that what they're called? The ones you soak in water and they turn really slippery and pliable and sometimes fragile? I didn't want to mess with those. To make spring rolls, I think. Anyway, I tried to make something "chineseish" without much effort. It was one of those meals that, in the end, was ... adequate.

Of course, several of my children don't like rice, not even white rice (which I used. I know brown rice is healthier. I didn't have time, since I didn't plan ahead). They all ate a little of something, but none of them really ate much, and they filled up on whole wheat bread and whole wheat english muffins and all fruit jelly not long after dinner. Which, I suppose, isn't a horrible thing to fill up on, but it's disheartening to make a reasonable meal and have no one be very excited about it. I'll admit, even I wasn't excited about it. Not that it was bad. Just ... okay. You know what I mean? Am I the only one who has meals like that?

So what is it? It's steamed broccoli over white rice, and yet another cabbage salad. I put the same sauce over each, it was a home made teriyaki sort of thing, but I wasn't very pleased with it. Again, not awful, just ... meh.

So instead of posting the recipe for today's sauce, I'll point you to this previous post with a much better homemade Hot Garlic Sauce in it. If I was doing dinner over, I'd make that instead of making up something new. Because I'm very pleased with that previous sauce.

And now, I just remembered that I forgot to upload the newsletter to it's little home on the web. I better do that before I forget. And then I better go to bed. Two of the children are singing in the choir tomorrow, so I need to be alert and ready to help.

Good night, blog friends!