Week in Review: Cottage Closing, Living Life, and a Physical PSA

I was trying to think back as to what went on this week and the biggest and bestest news was that The Ice Cream Cottage is officially closed for Season 4.  Woohoo!  We were running it on a skeleton crew, with Phil and Xander working doubles each day, so it is nice to be done with that until next May (once it's cleaned and winterized, of course).  

The last shift of wonderful workers

Even I had to go in on the last day because we were so busy and they needed waffle cones!

Once a season whether I like it or not

Fr. Cook helping himself to a last supper scooper

Everytime we covered up a flavor with tape, the crowd booed.  It was very dramatic! I loved it!

By the end, we only had Rum Raisin and Grapenut left (aka the old people flavors, even though I love grapenut), and people just kept ordering them until this was all the ice cream we had left in the shop:

Xander: I've never heard so many people ordering Grapenut before!

Me: That's because it's all we have left.  Desperate times!

Week in Review: We Certainly Ate

Happy 1st Friday in September!!  

I treated myself to a new coffee mug for the school year, and it is just so pretty and the mouthpiece is designed so comfortably that I am getting an inordinate amount of joy from it:

I also bought a rice cooker, which I have wanted for a long time because I LOVE rice but I have a hard time getting it perfect...usually because I'm cooking something else at the same time.  

We made the seasoned rice recipe with chicken cutlets and a salad and it came out great!

Leftover rice with the lime grilled chicken skewers from Aldi's and roasted cauliflower another night.

I also bought a big chuck roast from Aldi's and made pot roast and mashed potatoes for Sunday dinner:

My dad's tomatoes are finally coming in, so a BLT with extra mayo was on the menu.  Just for me.  The others are weird and don't like them.

Speaking of things nobody else in my family likes, here's one of my favorite snacks - cottage cheese with Popcorners or Sun Chips:

I like to make a crockpot meal on Saturdays so that when we come home from the vigil Mass, dinner is ready.  Last Saturday I made Chicken and Noodles which the kids call CaN CaN and we have to play the can can song while we eat.

I only had to cook for three one night (weird!) so I just airfried perdue chicken patties and turned them into chicken parm for the boys and a salad for me:

Chocolate chip cookies because why not?