The Kitchen Diaries - Day 20
Today was a glorious day. At least in several ways.
One, the plumbers arrived earlier than expected and hooked up my sink, stove, fridge and dishwasher. Granted, it was the old sink they hooked up, and the kitchen is still a wreck. I'll have to wipe everything down because of all the dust and unpack some of my kitchen tools and paraphrenalia before I can actually cook, but now at least I have running water and a place to start. Yay, me!
I have promised myself that when I am done here, I will run off and scrub out the inside of the microwave, which has seen about ten times its normal amount of use in the last three weeks and absolutely no dishrags or soapy water. It's a little disgusting, and now that it's at eye leve, that's something you really notice when you open the thing up. I hates me the inside of a dirty microwave. Yick!
Two, I just came home from the first session of a beginning knitting class I'm teaching at the store. It is a full class, so I have eight students. This can be worrisome, especially if you get what I call a stinker and/or a majority of people who have never touched needles or yarn before. I SO lucked out tonight. Although only a couple of people had knit at all before, none were stinkers and all picked it up pretty quickly - even the one woman who arrived looking very scared. To celebrate, I stopped off at Cafe Latte and scarfed down a piece of raspberry-chocolate torte. It is Dangerous with a capital D to work next door to that place.
Three, Julie had her allergist appointment downtown today. We didn't get any bad news. He did to some more scratch tests for fruits this time, and they all came back negative, even the ones to which we know she reacts. Not altogether surprising as false-negatives are not uncommon. Before the test, I said to him that it would be reassuring to see reactions just to know for sure, but that I'd keep doing what I'm doing avoiding the foods either way. Thank goodness he didn't disagree with me! In fact, he didn't balk when I told him that we're still avoiding wheat and soy despite the negative scratch test last time. I explained that we'd tried them again and gotten sleepless nights each time, and come to the conclusion they aren't good for her. Whoopee - he agreed. It's nice to have an expert agree with you when sometimes the rest of the non-allergic world gives you funny looks when you tell them all the stuff that your kid can't eat.
Four, today was farmer's market day downtown, and we had an extra 20 minutes before the appointment. I bought a couple of bags of apples from a local farmer. I'm planning to make a pie or crisp of some kind that Julie will be able to eat probably this weekend. Oddly enough, although both Joe and Julie are allergic to raw apples, they can eat cooked ones with no problem. They deserve to enjoy some of the fall bounty too. We also stopped at Target and I bought childproofing hardware for my office-room door - the kid can now open doors at will, and since she can also climb up my desk and grab whatever she wants off it, she really has to stay out of here unless supervised.
I really would like to take and extra ten minutes and show the world a picture of the baby blanket I'm knitting for the new one - I'm very excited about it. Maybe tomorrow. But the microwave and the rest of the kitchen are calling, and it's already 10 p.m. No more computer time tonight...and no time to watch the second DVD of Colonial House that Netflix sent today...and no time to keep working on that blanket. I guess there were some advantages to having no kitchen - I didn't have to squeeze cooking dinner into my afternoon, and I didn't have to spend the after-dinner hour cleaning up after dinner.
But I'm still happy to have a kitchen again! I think I've survived the worst of it after all.
One, the plumbers arrived earlier than expected and hooked up my sink, stove, fridge and dishwasher. Granted, it was the old sink they hooked up, and the kitchen is still a wreck. I'll have to wipe everything down because of all the dust and unpack some of my kitchen tools and paraphrenalia before I can actually cook, but now at least I have running water and a place to start. Yay, me!
I have promised myself that when I am done here, I will run off and scrub out the inside of the microwave, which has seen about ten times its normal amount of use in the last three weeks and absolutely no dishrags or soapy water. It's a little disgusting, and now that it's at eye leve, that's something you really notice when you open the thing up. I hates me the inside of a dirty microwave. Yick!
Two, I just came home from the first session of a beginning knitting class I'm teaching at the store. It is a full class, so I have eight students. This can be worrisome, especially if you get what I call a stinker and/or a majority of people who have never touched needles or yarn before. I SO lucked out tonight. Although only a couple of people had knit at all before, none were stinkers and all picked it up pretty quickly - even the one woman who arrived looking very scared. To celebrate, I stopped off at Cafe Latte and scarfed down a piece of raspberry-chocolate torte. It is Dangerous with a capital D to work next door to that place.
Three, Julie had her allergist appointment downtown today. We didn't get any bad news. He did to some more scratch tests for fruits this time, and they all came back negative, even the ones to which we know she reacts. Not altogether surprising as false-negatives are not uncommon. Before the test, I said to him that it would be reassuring to see reactions just to know for sure, but that I'd keep doing what I'm doing avoiding the foods either way. Thank goodness he didn't disagree with me! In fact, he didn't balk when I told him that we're still avoiding wheat and soy despite the negative scratch test last time. I explained that we'd tried them again and gotten sleepless nights each time, and come to the conclusion they aren't good for her. Whoopee - he agreed. It's nice to have an expert agree with you when sometimes the rest of the non-allergic world gives you funny looks when you tell them all the stuff that your kid can't eat.
Four, today was farmer's market day downtown, and we had an extra 20 minutes before the appointment. I bought a couple of bags of apples from a local farmer. I'm planning to make a pie or crisp of some kind that Julie will be able to eat probably this weekend. Oddly enough, although both Joe and Julie are allergic to raw apples, they can eat cooked ones with no problem. They deserve to enjoy some of the fall bounty too. We also stopped at Target and I bought childproofing hardware for my office-room door - the kid can now open doors at will, and since she can also climb up my desk and grab whatever she wants off it, she really has to stay out of here unless supervised.
I really would like to take and extra ten minutes and show the world a picture of the baby blanket I'm knitting for the new one - I'm very excited about it. Maybe tomorrow. But the microwave and the rest of the kitchen are calling, and it's already 10 p.m. No more computer time tonight...and no time to watch the second DVD of Colonial House that Netflix sent today...and no time to keep working on that blanket. I guess there were some advantages to having no kitchen - I didn't have to squeeze cooking dinner into my afternoon, and I didn't have to spend the after-dinner hour cleaning up after dinner.
But I'm still happy to have a kitchen again! I think I've survived the worst of it after all.
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