Lasagna Cooking in the Oven

I haven't done any cooking in . . . well . . . I really can't remember when.  While we were at the store tonight, I was suddenly seized by the urge to beat Nathan to the weekly question "What's for dinner tomorrow?"
So . . . lasagna is cooking.

Leaf and Scarab Beetle that Megan made out of Sculpy clay.

Tomorrow I am also planning to wear two of Megan's creations to Church.  They were attached to her Christmas present for her dad a few years ago.  Amazing children I have that spend such time and effort on a mere name tag.  

In Santo Domingo, I had a girlfriend who spent hours and hours on the package for any present she wanted to give.  For my birthday, she gave me a very nice pen suspended inside a glass soda bottle--which was wrapped from top to bottom in very thin cotton yarn--about the size of embroidery floss.  I kept the bottle for years.  Of course I lost the pen within a few weeks. 

It is Christmas time again.  There have been years when it was just Brent, Nathan and I and we didn't even bother to wrap our gifts to one another.  We just folded the tops of the bags over and taped them shut.  Everyone was happy--we enjoyed the presents and the fact that there wasn't any mountain of wrapping paper to clean up.  Christmas suppers were simple, too.  

One year I went to Honeybaked Ham