Foooood!

We had my father over for dinner as well as a close friend for the first time. So, we had to go all out and make an awesomely gourmet meal. We made Mac and Cheese, a special recipe from Food and Wine magazine:

Yes, we did bake it in the skillet in the oven. I forgot to take a picture before we dug in, therefore is no longer looks like it did. :P

Then, Martha Stewart helped us with the mushroom, tomato, spinach, and parmesan salad as well as the mini chocolate cakes that we had for dessert. I overcooked the chocolate cakes, because I didn't want there to be any chance of raw egg whites (dad's allergic). But, he assured me that he doesn't require that much cooking to make it ok. Therefore, next time it will be cooked less and not look like an exploding volcano (hopefully):

It cracks me up just to look at it. My guests assured me it was plenty edible, but I thought it was way too dry. Ah well.

So, for everything including the broccoli on the side (gotta get lots of greens) here's a picture:

I think we did a pretty good job. I couldn't have asked for a better husband, who washed practically ALL of the dishes as we were using them. I quote from him "It's the one thing I know I can't mess up" and "All good chefs clean as they go". He's been watching lots of Ramsey shows, so he would know. ;)

Anyway, it was a success. More pics later from tonight. We're having an informal mexican feed for my parents to celebrate halloween. Hopefully it'll turn out well . . .

Oh the Hecticity!

Yes, I did just make up a word. But it describes the last couple of days at school. Yesterday I was informed that I needed to find a sub for Mon. the entire day because I have some professional development meeting to attend (all day). Ugh. For one, I don't wanna leave my kids, for two, I've never had a sub before, so I didn't know how to get one, for three, it was kinda short notice. Anyway, so I'm rushing to try and figure out how to sign up for a sub and get one that actually knew French and then I'm informed that I need a sub for Thursday next week as well! So, I had to ask someone in the building who was free that period to cover for me. Double Ugh. THEN, I found out that they needed me to move classrooms to a completely different building, by MONDAY! This I found out after school Thursday evening, meaning I had to go in today and try and get my sub plans set up, everything in order for my sub on Mon. When I got to the school where I needed to change classrooms, the office people had already left so I had to track down a janitor to let me into my new room so I could set up for my Sub. Geez. Thank you high school and middle school, for springing all this on me last minute and at the same time! Like, how often do you make a teacher get a sub AND make her move her classroom in one day??? As if my life wasn't hectice enough.

On a positive note, I got paid! YAY, after working over a month, I finally get paid! Also, I'm out looking for a furry companion. I think I've found one, if she's still available. A friend of mine found a previously owned stray who is a sweetie. I'm thinking it's pretty promising. More news on this later . . . .