1. Carol assigned Debbie and me to bring a rice dish to our Easter Day family dinner and Christy requested that we bring Do It Yourself Rice-A-Roni, a dish I've prepared several times.
I don't know if I used a different recipe today or if I messed something up as I put the ingredients together, but after about a half an hour of cooking, at the time the recipe indicated the Rice-A-Roni would be cooked, it wasn't.
Debbie, thank goodness, intervened and on this Easter Day we resurrected the seemingly dead Rice-A-Roni.
Debbie also baked a loaf of egg bread, another food item that fell into the Easter Day category.
About the bread dough, before it went in the oven, Debbie could joyfully proclaim: "It is risen."
2. We took our rescued and resurrected Rice-A-Roni over to Carol and Paul's where we joined Carol, Paul, Christy, Taylor, Bucky, and Cosette for dinner.
Paul prepared a vegetable plate and a cracker plate and made a white bean and pea dip for our appetizer.
We filed into the dining area and sat down to a dinner of baked ham (Carol), a vegetable casserole (Christy), Resurrection Rice-A-Roni (ahem), and deviled eggs (Cosette). Carol served us each a tidy bowl of fresh strawberries topped with one of the Dream Whip products.
3. I left dinner today feeling grateful that Cosette and family are doing very well; that Zoe and Molly also are doing well in their work and in the other aspects of their lives; that Carol and Paul's nieces, Taylor and Carly are both pregnant with their first babies and all reports about their lives are good.
Adrienne sent us an Easter portrait of Jack and Eloise and they are healthy and happy in the picture and I know they, too, are doing well.
Molly also sent an Easter portrait of Olivia, David, and Ana. Just like Jack and Eloise, they look beautiful, healthy, and happy.
Grateful indeed.
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