Pumpkins

Still slacking.  Know I should write about Rory's birthday or our trip to Italy, but that's too daunting, so I'll start not slacking by writing about things a little more mundane.

This weekend we went to a pumpkin patch.  Rory loved it!  It was cold, but we wandered through the field to pick out the right pumpkins.  We got an orange one, a green one and a couple of multi-colored ones.  As we were leaving the farmer gave Rory a small white one that was just her size.  When we got home we put our five pumpkins together on the floor and Rory is calling it her pumpkin patch.

Sunday evening we carved one of the pumpkins (a green one!).  Rory also enjoyed that.  She especially liked eating the pumpkin.  I decided to attempt to make pumpkin bread from the jack o' lantern remains and Rory thought that was great that she'd get to eat more of the pumpkin.  She went to bed saying eat the jack o' lantern.  I wasn't expecting much since it really wasn't the right type of pumpkin for baking, but the bread turned out okay and we all ate it for breakfast this morning.

Fall forward.  We did this weekend.  It gets dark so very early now.  A little concerned about the dark winter.  Hoping that Rory will adjust to the new time and start sleeping a little later in the mornings.  Right now she's napping.  She fell asleep in the car and let me put her down.  I'm marking the day in my calendar as she's let me do that maybe three other times.  From the parking garage to the elevator, up seven stories, shoes off, coat off, and she still didn't wake up.

Another new recipe tonight.  A variation on Savory Vegetable Bread Pudding (Southern Living, September 2009).  I'm looking forward to it.  Also a Norwegian lesson tonight.  Looking forward to that less.

Highlights

I am a blogging slacker.  You already knew that though since it has been a month since I last posted.  I will try to do better.

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