Tuesday's Activities Include: school, no Dutch, walk, cooking

After the kids were out to school, I did a few things around the house. I went for a walk with M. My Dutch lesson was canceled due to a combination of ongoing child care issues on his side (I pre-emptively canceled child care for T., because he was coughing so much on Monday evening. R. had a bad cold a few days ago and is slowly recovering. T. and I caught a lighter version of it, but still a lot of coughing) and illness on mine. After the walk, I made chocolate chip muffins. Then I went grocery shopping. I tried to make black eyed pea, rice and veg fritters ("Hoppin' John Fritters" from the Cafe Flora cookbook) but I screwed something up and they didn't stick together at all. Which sort of matters less than you might expect. I also made salad and cole slaw. So I'm back to actually eating things out of the fridge that I have cooked myself, which is nice.

When T. got home, we discussed what he wanted for dinner and we made pizza after A. got home. I even still had salami for my side, and grated mozzarella for his (two kinds of red sauce available already open, contadina for him and NSA from Trader Joe's for me). A. had chicken nuggets and was very happy to learn I had replenished her supply of starlight mints.

I finished up more of the laundry. I dealt with mail (it was almost all for me, and some it actually required me to do something -- that doesn't happen often!).

I've been reading a lot about the MZB etc. scandal that broke a few years ago, and of course tracking the ongoing coverage of the Weinstein scandal. I have a couple book reviews to post (related to the MZB stuff, actually), but am trying to actually be sensitive for a change. No, I don't think it will work, but I can at least say I _tried_ to be sensitive.