Beurre manié

"I think i got the rocking thing down, ma!"

I love bananas but it's freaking cold!

Can you tell how mischievous I'll be someday??

Still draggin those legs and rolling eeeeverywhere...

I'm gonna go for it, momma!

Mmm...A tradition we've started (on weekends we're home!) is a Sunday Roast. Today we kind of went overboard. I've really been wanting leek and potato soup, and we got a beef roast yesterday, we we basically have the whole week cooked up for supper and lunches, yummy!

Complete with desserts. I did an apple crisp yesterday, then Ross taught me how to make raspberry creme brulees, with raspberry coulis (coo-lee :) Very exciting. Ooh, and for the soup, I personally made the beurre manie - which is flour and butter mushed together until it looks like bread crumbs. Always an education 'round ours!

The rest of the day we've spent sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms and doing laundry. Then Isla and momma hung out on the front porch, eating frozen bananas and rocking in the chair. I enjoyed getting to clean a bit today - but it's been sooo nice having my little house husband for the last 5-6 weeks. He's back to work next Monday, quite reluctantly I must say. 

Todd and Jenni got back home today, they went on a train tour to St. Louis, then to the zoo and all over the place. I just showed them the vid of the flood and they were freaked out, it's the highest they've seen in over five years!