After Mark was born, our incredibly generous and loving friends brought us two meals a week for two months.  Nik’s mother, Tina, also brought at least one (and often more) meals a week.  Add in leftovers from those meals, and we rarely had to cook more than one or two times a week for all of January and February.

It was incredibly lovely to have other people shopping and cooking for us.  I know that we were able to rest so much better because of those meals.  It was also so nice not to have to do any menu planning!  My brain got a two-month break also and that was almost as nice as the break from not cooking!

A couple weeks ago, I was getting food out of our freezer while preparing dinner and thinking, “Why do we have all this food in here?  We have been doing a TERRIBLE job at eating out of our freezer!  That’s the point of all that food preservation in the fall! What is our problem?  Get with the system, Laura!”

Then I realized that actually, I was being a little hard on myself.  We hadn’t really had to feed ourselves for two months.  Add in a pregnant woman’s need to be abundantly prepared for anything (hence me buying eight dozen ears of sweet corn in September instead of our normal six dozen) and you get plenty of food.  We have sweet corn coming out our ears.

To Andreas and Nikki, Tina, Julie, Martha and Doug, Nicole and Stephen, Marie and Gabriel, Betsy and Dan, Steph and Ben, Ashley and Dan, Emily and Jacob, Carrie and Jeff, Becky and Randall, Kristen and Tim, Harmony and David, Lisa and Brody, Heather and Ryan, Stephanie and Justin, Anne and Jeremy, Hannah and Ben, and Joanna and Vic:

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity and love to us.  If you find yourself in need of sweet corn, zucchini, broccoli, or pumpkin for any recipes, let us know!  We’d be happy to supply them to you out of the abundance of our freezer!