It’s been an intense week as we try to slide back into academic schedules where so little is different from the jolted changes last spring. We’re trying to navigate work schedules, school schedules, and family time, and I’m aware it’s just the second week and things are going to get more stressful (for me, at least) as the semester progresses.
I’m also aware things are a lot more intense for a lot folks, especially on the West coast.
I’m curious how situations have changed for different folks. Sometimes when I look online, I mostly see families prepping for actual in-person school or having nannies and child-care support, neither of which are really options for us with where things are in the pandemic at the moment (C’s won’t go back to school physically until mid-October at the earliest). But I also hear there’s so much overwhelm and exhaustion with the hustling from home with kids underfoot; a reality that is far less Instagramable.
What I’ve Been Reading Recently:
Joy the Baker shared these photos from the Western US fires.
Some Twitter humor in response (as always, don’t read the comments)
100 Favorite books for young readers, because we’re trying to make it work!
And how we’re making it work does not look like this.
College students creating new jobs amid the pandemic
What it’s really like to be single during COVID.
And some links decidedly on the lighter side:
Do expensive wine glasses really make the wine taste better? I don’t have these but I like Marissa Ross’ writing on wine and her book Wine All the Time.
These are the wine glasses I currently use and really like.
Just bought a new fall candle from Haus Witch (out of Salem, MA and absolutely appropriate for this October) after lighting this one all spring.
This list of diabetes cooking and food references (including here!)
What I’ve Been Cooking This Week:
Sunday: Za’tar chicken thighs with peaches and couscous
Monday: Pasta with sun-dried tomatoes and chicken sausage, paired with roasted carrots
Tuesday: Leftovers
Wednesday: This absolutely delicious recipe for scalloped potatoes paired with pan-seared chicken and broccoli
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Chicken piccata with angel hair pasta (which we all wish had been a thicker noodle instead)
Saturday: Pan-seared salmon, roasted broccolini, and the last of the scalloped potatoes
Coming up this week:
- Spare ribs (I think… this is a rare choice for us!)
- Spaghetti with turkey meatballs (a long-time favorite)
- Some kind of sweet & sour vinegar dish
