Are they related?  To me they are today. Shayna’s been out of town for the last two days and she’s coming home for dinner tonight.  I decided to prepa a special dinner for her: BBQ’d skirt steak, asparagus and home-made mushroom risotto.  I started the marinade last night with soy sauce, white wine,lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, and cumin.  I made a 
Nice mushroom risotto this afternoon and will be garnishing it with burned-up Parmesan cheese. I’ve been soaking the hickory chips since this morning so that they will really smoke and add tons of flavor to the meat.  Sounds good, huh?

Now, the kids are both in their tennis lessons.  It’s cool because they both really like them. Ela actually is really good so far.  There are lots of girls in the class and teacher says that they tend to talk a lot, but they’re learning anyway.  They’ve both discovered the after sports snack. It was inevitable, but I’m trying to keep it at least a tiny bit healthy.  I’ve been getting them the sugar free Jello pudding cups.  Milk, chemicals and no fat – not so bad.

There’s the relationship. 

My head feels like someone painted it with dope. I was outside yesterday for several hours doing yard work and now I have a sunburn that’s making my nick itch and my bald head tight. At least it’s overcast today. 

Tomorrow, Benjamin’s school is having a “Parent’s appreciation breakfast” that I really should be at. My tendency is to not get out there and be social, but I know that it’s the wrong thing to do. I’m sure that I’ll enjoy it, though.  I always enjoy social events even though I fight tooth and nail to not go.

Okay, I’m home now and the steak was freaking amazing! I made little Parmesan bowls for the risotto and dribbled home-made BBQ sauce on it.