Friday night with the family, a turkey story and an easy oven-baked rice recipe

It is a glimpse of our house on a latest Friday night.

Tonight, 6-year-old Elijah got here in from doing chores to tell us that Miss Potter, our guinea hen, was sitting within the nest. Sounds too good to be true! Just a few weeks in the past, the kids have been touched when a gentleman from the world supplied to present us two turkeys, a tom and a hen. “Tom is tamed,” he defined. Now, seeing is believing.

This massive black tom is actually tame like a cat. Even little Joshua can get out and pet the strutting tom. Sooner or later, after I heard Joshua’s pressing cries, I went to research to seek out Joshua hanging on one among his wings making an attempt to get him again into his pen. This massive hen will observe you across the yard as if it feels proper at house when it’s with folks.

In fact new pets equal new names. We mentioned; Lastly we determined that Strutter and Potter would do it. For the reason that hen began laying eggs, I have been telling the children that we’ll have to get an incubator to hatch some eggs. Now if Miss Potter did it herself, we would not want to fret about that. The geese have been laying eggs in the identical nest. What’s going to occur now?

By meal time, the solar was lastly peeking by the clouds. We determined to all sit exterior to have a good time. Due to Aunt Mary from Ohio, who made pizza throughout her go to final week, the leftovers have been frozen and supplied a straightforward dinner for six hungry children. Because the final items of pizza have been being faraway from the plates, the solar was hiding behind the clouds once more, so we opted to go to the lounge ground in entrance of the fireside to get ice cream.

I used to be amazed. Life could be very totally different now that kids are rising into kids, sufficiently old so as to add their very own private contributions to the household, whether or not it’s by serving to round the home, telling one another tales, or enjoying video games collectively.

“Once I was youthful and wanted a babysitter, I needed to get two,” I stated.

“Why?” Hosseina needed to know.

We do not bear in mind what it was wish to be little children, will we?

I saved it easy. “It takes numerous care to verify the little ones are effectively taken care of,” I replied.

One of many older kids observed the solar’s rays, which have been positive to chop by the chilly once more, “Mother, the solar’s arising once more, can we put down the dishes now and exit within the entrance yard to play softball?”

“It is going to take us only a blink of a watch to do it instantly,” she emphasised.

After our tune they started working and inside minutes the dishes have been cleaned.

Now, as I write, I hear the sound of a bat hitting a softball. And Ahsana, from her seat on a excessive chair on the entrance porch, sings her coronary heart out. Certain, it is price it! She loves singing to her imaginary viewers. Earlier than she might learn, she would take the songbook and flip by its pages, intently “studying the phrases” as she sang one tune after one other from reminiscence.

Tonight all of us wish to stroll to the varsity constructing the place the younger folks shall be coaching for this system.

I am again once more, it is 9:30, and the children are all in mattress. We beloved listening to the present, and with so most of the women lacking, I used to be in a position to assist sing a part of it. It introduced again fond reminiscences of my youthful years and the instances we might sing in nursing properties.

In conclusion, we’ll conclude with the household favourite rice casserole. Most individuals who do not care a lot for rice will go for a second serving of this scrumptious dish. Daniel favored it after I added slightly liquid smoke and added some additional onions and peppers.

Straightforward oven baked rice

2 cups boiled rice

½ cup butter

½ teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons rooster base

2 tablespoons chopped onion or ½ cup chopped onion*

2 tablespoons minced garlic

1 tablespoon parsley

3 cups boiled and chopped rooster

2 cups grated cheese of your alternative (optionally available)