Thursday the 7th: Food of the Week

Tomorrow is crispy potato cubes and a salad kit--I presume, but I won't be here because I'll be on the St. Louis choir trip. 

 Today is Betty Crocker's Spanish Rice.

Yesterday was McDonald's and Fritz's and leftovers.

Tuesday was flatbreads topped with onions, spiced beef, and feta cheese and mint. They were really tasty if a little too salty in places.

Monday was a cheddar biscuit pie with a turkey sausage filling. This always turns out well, but I maybe wish there was a little more sauce in the filling.

Sunday was some beef kebabs. I think I would have preferred smaller chunks and maybe chicken over beef. 

Wednesday the 6th: Music of the Week

 Tonight is my last concert at my school! I'm both happy to have this chunk of work done and very sad that I won't get to play with them again. Tomorrow is a concert at another school as a fill in, and then Friday and Saturday is a trip to St. Louis for a choir competition. Busy, busy next few days.

Tuesday the 5th: Flowers abloom

 This is the first year one of my Lenten roses has bloomed for me. I'm thrilled.

 

 

Monday the 4th: St. Florian

 From https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=149

The St. Florian commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on May 4th, was an officer of the Roman army, who occupied a high administrative post in Noricum, now part of Austria, and who suffered death for the Faith in the days of Diocletian. His legendary "Acts" state that he gave himself up at Lorch to the soldiers of Aquilinus, the governor, when they were rounding up the Christians, and after making a bold confession, he was twice scourged, half-flayed alive, set on fire, and finally thrown into the river Enns with a stone around his neck. His body, recovered and buried by a pious woman, was eventually removed to the Augustinian Abbey of St. Florian, near Linz. It is said to have been at a later date translated to Rome, and Pope Lucius III, in 1138, gave some of the saint's relics to King Casimir of Poland and to the Bishop of Cracow. Since that time, St. Florian has been regarded as a patron of Poland as well as of Linz, Upper Austria and of firemen. There has been popular devotion to St. Florian in many parts of central Europe, and the tradition as to his martyrdom, not far from the spot where the Enns flows into the Danube, is ancient and reliable. Many miracles of healing are attributed to his intercession and he is invoked as a powerful protector in danger from fire or water. His feast day is May 4th. 

 

 

Friday the 1st: The house that got away

 We did not buy this house BUT we toured one beautiful mid century modern house in Wichita that's still for sale. It had some really lovely details BUT a backyard that was falling down the hill.

 

 

Thursday the 30th: Food of the Week

*Tomorrow I will be on retreat so the boys will feed themselves. 

 *Tonight is Bella Napoli, and I *think* they will have homemade gnocchi as their Thursday evening special.

*Last night we had leftovers and grilled cheese sandwiches with parts of three different loaves of bread.

*Tuesday night the Son made picadillo tacos. It was a really nice filling but needed more salt than the recipe called for, and I had to teach the boys how to drain ground beef.

*Monday night I made the NYT recipe for chicken shawarma on a sheet pan with red onions, feta, cucumber, white sauce, and pita. They were pretty tasty. I probably could have doubled it to have some leftovers, or made some rice to have with it.

*Sunday we had Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese from Cook's Country. We had a small amount of leftovers but it was inhaled!  The pickles and the mustard really lift this recipe. For supper we had sausage patties and french toast.

 

Wednesday the 29th: Music of the Week

 *We had the KCKCC Jazz Summit yesterday, so our Chamber Singers sang a set of four songs along with me, a drummer, a standing bass, and alto sax. They did a great job.

*Next week is our last choir concert with everyone and then a trip to St. Louis with about 40 choir students.