I find that, most days, the adage that ‘you learn something every day’ is true. It’s certainly true that I learn something every week. This week, I learned that:

• It’s easier to clean up boiled-over rhubarb compote than boiled-over rice pudding
• That lump of frozen red cabbage with attached mystery brown glob, recently removed from the depths of the freezer, is leftover Christmas Goose and Stuffing. Score!
• It’s difficult to open and apply superglue with one hand
• It’s nearly impossible to superglue closed a cut that’s still bleeding
• It’s beyond the realm of reason to expect to superglue a cut on your finger without supergluing tiny bits of bloody paper towel to the cut, the non-affected hand, the counter, the sink, and the lid of the trash can
• It doesn’t take many repetitions to make the word ‘superglue’ feel heavy in your mouth when you say it
• Frida’s new little laugh is joyous and yet sounds a bit like a sick donkey. Hilarious.
• There are many delicious sandwiches to be made with black bread (recipe here,) but one loaf is plenty (warning: the recipe makes two.)

Sandwiches include:

• Roast pork/mayo/apple/swiss
• Butter/radish/scallion
• Pastrami/mustard/lightly pickled cabbage slaw
• Cherry jam/cream cheese

I’m packing them up for a picnic, and I expect that we’ll be thoroughly sick of black bread by the time we’re finished.

To recap: laughing baby, time to cook, and a picnic with a friend. Life is sweet.