Ivy ran a great race yesterday and finished 3rd! Her time was 13:37 for 2 miles! SO glad to finish the season on a high note.

I had great plans to make chicken casserole for dinner tonight, but somehow I only had 2 lonely chicken legs in the freezer. I DID have one pound of ground beef left, and half a bag of tatertots. Can you believe my children were delighted to hear we were having "tater tot Cassie-role" . Our dear friend Cassie loves this dish. Ours is not the same version as the Duggars. In fact, it is rarely the same version even at our house!

Just in case you are wondering, we had a guest at dinner.

I am currently in panic mode because I signed up to host team dinner for Ben's cross country team tomorrow. Is the house clean? NO! Who has time?

I'll let you know how it goes when I recover! It is also AWANA Grand prix weekend.

I planned to post pix, and took quite a few, but right now I am unable to load them. I will try again later this weekend.

Ok, funny Tatertot story.

When we lived in Okinawa, we went to a fellowship dinner every Friday night. One week, I was making this casserole. I got most of it together and had to run upstairs to shower or dress a baby, you get the idea. I left Evan (then 11 or12) to complete the dish and pop it in the oven. When I returned, there were crumbs all over the dining room table. When I asked him why, he said" Oh, that is where I dumped out the fish sticks."
"Why?" I asked dazedly.
"TO count them and put half on the casserole like you said."
"Please tell me you did not put fish sticks on the tater tot casserole!"
"No, I realized they were not tater tots, Mom, did you know that 52 is exactly half of a bag of tater tots?"