The Cool House
Posted by Rachel
It’s official, a friend of my daughters this morning said, “Our house isn’t this much fun.” Yes! We’ve done it. We’ve become that cool house that the kids want to come visit and never leave.
Today we had neighbors of ours over for play time and lunch. They have 3 children. Their oldest is a year older than Abby, middle child is Abby’s age, and the youngest is a couple months older than Zach.
Abby loved showing them all her toys and her room. Abby has never before showed interest in playing in her room before today. They would go up and down the stairs and at times just stay up in her room for a while playing. On a winter day like this when it is only 26 degrees outside it is nice to have people over and let the kids run around and play while the adults talk. Abby is finally to the age where she doesn’t need mom or dad to play with her and can go off with other kids to play.
We had a great lunch of chicken tortellini soup with bread sticks and pumpkin pie for dessert. All homemade. We made the soup and pumpkin pie and our friends supplied the bread sticks. Yum all around!
Chicken Tortellini Soup (Recipe given to us by our best friends from Kentucky,thanks Candra):
Take a raw whole chicken with skin on and season with salt, garlic powder and poultry seasoning. Put in large stock pot with onions and celery and cover with water (we also put in a few shallots). Cover pot and boil for about 2 hours or until the chicken falls off the bones. Remove all chicken, bones, onions, and celery and put in separate bowl. Remove the chicken from the bones and discard bones along with the onions and celery (the boiling takes away all their flavor and puts it in the broth). Then saute onions and carrots together. Put the chicken, onions, carrots, and one can (with all juice) of diced tomatoes back in the broth. Cook up tortellini separate from the soup and do not put in the soup (if you do the tortellini will get too soft and break apart). To serve put tortellini in bowls and pour the soup over top. Serve with grated parmesan to top.
Try and enjoy with your friends!
It was a great time; we need to get together with people (especially those with kids!) more often. The only thing I’m sad about this day is that we never got any pictures of the kids playing together! I guess there’s always next time…