What I'm doing this week:

Reading: Rat Queens (a fun, feminist dungeon-crawl-themed comic)

Listening to: my "Copacabana" station on Pandora

Watching:  Going back through early seasons of Top Chef and Top Chef Masters on Hulu

Doing: Finishing up the school year with 2 weeks of End of Year Awesomeness -- a contraptions day, an afternoon feast (cheese tasting and make your own nachos), a field trip to the lake, a glee club concert, an end of year party complete with loads of messy outdoor play (elephant toothpaste, face painting, tie dye, foaming dough, oobleck, water pistols).  And now, in this moment, transitioning into summer vacation.  *aaaahhhhh*

Eating/Cooking: An afternoon tea party for Sarah's family birthday party -- botterhammen (just a fancy word for open faced sandwiches) with hummus, egg salad, cream cheese, and soy-onion-lentil pate as the choices for sandwich spread and loads of accessories (tomato, cucumber, scallions, radishes, arugula, olives, avocado, pickles), vanilla cake, scones, pastry cream, caramel sauce.  We've still never gotten around to lemon curd.  

Something that went particularly well this week:  Glee Club concert.  We rocked.  We sang Me and Bobby McGee, Thinking Outloud, and Take Me To Church.

Something I struggled with: I wasn't nearly as organized as I'd wanted to be, for the messy outdoor play and the rest of the End of Year Celebration.  Or for Sarah's birthday tea party.  Also, my water heater stopped working, which has been making cleaning up at home much more complicated.  I feel like a prairie denizen, heating water on the stove in order to do the dishes.  Not a great combination with the tea party.  

Something I'm looking forward to: Summer Vacation!