What a wonderful feeling: I am basically caught up. I have a handful of papers to grade, but those should take all of 30 minutes to knock out before school tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’m done with all my lesson plans for the next couple of weeks, so I finally have a chance to catch my breath a little bit.
I spent most of this evening cooking. I have potato soup simmering in the Crock-Pot at the moment, and I made a big batch of meatballs from a recipe in my friend Dawn’s new book, which hits the shelves tomorrow.
I have to remember to make a batch of kettle corn after church on Wednesday, as our academic team is hosting a game Thursday afternoon, and the kids get very disappointed if my contribution to the pregame snack table does not involve kettle corn. (I tried bringing homemade chocolate-chip cookies one time, thinking that was a better treat, but I was mistaken. Kettle corn gets a much more enthusiastic response than cookies … which is fine with me, because I can crank out enough kettle corn to feed a dozen teenagers in less than 10 minutes, using maybe 50 cents’ worth of ingredients, whereas cookies require 10 times as much time and 10 times as much money to produce.)
Hope you had a productive day and a peaceful evening, wherever you are.
Emily
