Friday

I love Cook's Illustrated. They have these crazy articles with titles like, "Perfecting Glazed Chicken" and "Ultimate Apple Tart" and they deconstruct each recipe so you know how they come up with the "ultimate" I devour (no pun intended) each issue cover to cover and have a crazy collection of them. I don't really ever go back to them and have only added a couple of their dishes to my regular repertorie, but just can't get rid of them!

Kyle starts school on the 13th - 1st grade. That seems really early to me - what ever happened to that Memorial Day, Labor Day school schedule? I think he's ready though. He's been at day camp each day with the same friends he always spends his summers with, but I think he's beginning to realize some kids are just hard to be around. It cracks me up though, when we get there in the morning several boys run up and start chattering to him all at once and he's so "aloof" about it all...kind of like he knows they love him! Funny kid.