Comfort Me with....Oatmeal

Dear Amanda,

How pretty! Was there a sauce that you sautéed those in a bit before or mixed them in (olive oil, salt and pepper?) before stuffing and baking? I love acorn squash. Stephanie's on Newbury hollows them out a bit more and bakes their shepherd's pie in acorn squash. Talk about comfort food! It's my favorite thing to order in fall and winter--just delicious.

I have a little extra time for comfort food myself this morning--so I'm enjoying some real oatmeal. (It's my new, I'm afraid of high cholesterol thing. I make it stove top, sweeten with a little honey and throw in some craisins and it's hearty and delicious. Makes the packages seem like sawdust.) I have the time because a little later this morning I am taking D to an appointment to see her oncologist and I took the day off. I could have gone in for a couple of hours and then rushed over to get her, but she lives an hour and 15 minutes from school (at which point we still have an hour to travel) and only 45 minutes from me. In the meantime you can never really leave the building when you want; once you're there it swallows you somehow and honestly I don't want to show up to D's frazzled. She needs peaceful and positive energy; she doesn't need me after a few hours at school. probably running late. So I took the time yesterday afternoon to leave lesson plans and get my ducks in a row, and I called in today. This morning I'm having breakfast, writing, enjoying some oatmeal. I'll meditate a little and affirm and put on a smile before I pick her up later.

I haven't seen her in a couple of weeks, since Christmas, since she beagn her new treatment in earnest, but I have spoken to her and know she is not doing well. She is very sick from it--constantly nauseous, throwing up, unable to eat. She wants to talk about dosage changes or different treatment today and needs me to ask the right questions and remember the answers for...Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's another clinical trial for her, so we might not get desired answers. Hence the need to do a little meditating and affirming first.

My original plans to get my boxes of Christmas decorations back in the basement now that they're full again can wait until tomorrow I guess. They are predicting a storm with 100% certainty. Looks like the 10-16 inches of snow will leave me with plenty of time to finish house stuff tomorrow. Today my focus is elsewhere.

Sorry about your Ducks...fun while it lasted though, no?

Have a good day.
Love you,
Barb