Dough!

At her Primary activity this week . . .

. . . Anna and her friends made Amish Friendship Bread starter.

She has enjoyed "feeding" it . . .

. . . but when she gave the starter bag its daily squish this afternoon

she discovered that it wasn't completely sealed shut.

The starter splattered EVERYWHERE--

 onto the carpet, down the curtains, and into the portable AC unit.

On days like this, I wish someone else was the mom around here.

On a much happier note,

for the first time since the pandemic began,

Trader Joe's is finally giving out samples again!

Tasting new things and chatting with the pink-shirted food evangelist

feel like two steps closer to normality to me.