Heading home?

I am so desperate to get home that it cannot be believed. Truly, I feel frantic. The kids have had a really hard time sleeping, and therefore, T and I have slept even less. Yesterday's wake-up was at 4:59a, and today was 5:20a. Do you ever start to feel both crazed and angry when you're exceedingly tired? I am both, and we just found out that our flight home has been delayed two hours despite perfect weather here in Hartford. This airport is the pits, and we are all in terrible moods.

Corn, avocado and lime salad

It is definitely summer here in Louisiana; blue skies, humid, hotter than Hades and oh, the produce. A cursory glance around Mom’s kitchen showed tons of corn, a fresh anaheim pepper, tomatoes, avocados, limes and the prettiest little red onion. Mint in the garden and a fire-orange habanero I’d bought yesterday. I wanted to use it all for lunch. My parents’ grill seems to be totally out-of-service. It reminds me of an old-timey gas pump that still stands as a pillar to what once was, but you’d never have luck using it. As I’d initially intended to grill the corn and anaheim, I moved on to plan B and pan-roasted them, the corn with a bit of the habanero, diced, and butter. I tossed the warm corn with lime zest, the roasted, slivered and seeded anaheim, slivered red onion, halved grape tomatoes, chopped cucumbers, cubed avocados, chopped mint, some crumbled feta and a lime vinaigrette. Yummy- A perfect lunchtime entree when paired with some thick-sliced multigrain bread.

Failed plan

The nap/stories in Jack's room did not work, and poor Ol (and mommy, frankly) ended up with a giant poop and pee in his underpants. Oh lordy. DisGUSTing. Ah well. Say it with me: It's always something!