Buying pottery and making madeleines

Wow, have I been a bad girl today. Almost no cleaning up (Saturday mornings are always our evil house cleaning time). We went to the Jubilee Festival of the Arts instead. And I bought a beautiful pottery fish--very inexpensive, but I had also bought a pitcher at the seconds pottery sale in Waxhaw yesterday, so that’s two pieces of pottery in two days. There goes that prize money.

It’s not a huge deal, and October is really the only time of year I buy pottery--we go to this festival and to the Village Gallery sale this time every year, but right now I’m supposed to be saving money. In theory we’ll have one of our sets of student loans paid off in February or March if we can keep up the giant payments we’re making on it now. But it’s very ouch each month writing that big check. Let me tell you, graduate education in English doesn’t pay. Well… one weekend off housework and $60 on pottery won’t kill us. But I just bought all Will’s winter jeans too, so no eating out this week.

And what a bummer that is. I hate cooking when I have to. It’s not that I really hate cooking, but I hate doing it after I’ve been driving over an hour to get home and pick up the kids, and then walk in the door: boom. Everybody is starving. And the homework hasn’t been done. And I have this faint memory of days when I used to come home and relax. I don’t know how I got this stereotypically working mom. I do like to cook on the weekends though, and so instead of cleaning up now that we’re home, I’m making madeleines for a dinner we’re going to tonight. They smell so wonderful... and no, it’s not Proustian, thank you. They’re just really easy and quick to make. Although they don’t really go with pottery, do they?