What Sound Does Exhaustion Make?

Sammy's been sick since Wednesday and I'm tired. So very tired. Doctor's appointment this morning to find out why he keeps spiking these crazy fevers. And then, hopefully, rest.

Yesterday, since Isaac was home, I finally got a little tag team help with Sammy. That was lovely. So I did what relaxes me. Cook.

We had an amazing veggie chili. I slow roasted the last of the garden tomatoes with fresh garlic and salt. I mixed that, fresh peppers and onions with corn and black beans and spices. So very yummy. Spicy goodness!


Then I made pie. My mom makes a homemade chocolate pudding pie that I LOVE, so I took her basic pudding recipe and made a vanilla pudding raspberry pie. Cannot begin to tell you how fabulous it was! I made a crust (not big enough for my new deep dish pan!) and then took fresh market raspberries and crushed them with just a little sugar and spread them in the bottom of the crust.

Bake until the crust is done. While that was cooking, I made my homemade vanilla pudding (milk, cornstarch and vanilla) until thick. Pour that over the raspberries and I mixed it *just* a little so I had some of the pretty berries peaking out. Cool, set and eat!

I definitely needed to double the recipe to fit my deep dish pan, but other than that. YUM. I love making pie...

And Sammy? He did a little of this:


some of this:

and a lot of this:

Here's to a better week - one of actually getting to my to-do list and figuring out if I should open a jewelry etsy shop or not...