mathmom's blog

They are talking about snow flurries for NC tomorrow night---and astonishingly, they haven't cancelled school yet.  Some people think we are wimps for cancelling school, but I remember January 2005.  Eleanor, Amanda and I were on our way home from The Little Gym, and a drive that usually took 20 minutes took over 2 hours.  Some kids got stranded overnight at schools.  This was just a 1 inch snowstorm---I'd really rather have cancelled school. On the other hand, I also remember the Halloween blizzard of 1991.  We had over 3 feet of snow at college---but they didn't cancel classes.  I had two classes that day, one math and one econ.  The economics teacher was a recent immigrant from China (although now I think about it, I think she came via Cleveland).  She put on her snowsuit and trekked across fields to get to campus.  My other professor practically lived on campus, just a few hundred feet from the math building.  I was sad that I didn't have any professors who drove

This morning Luke decided that he wanted to make a chocolate pie. With his own recipe, of course. He'd already gotten out the chocolate and mixed it with the soy milk and was getting out the egg replacer and was figuring out what he needed to make a pie crust. SIGH. Sometimes I wish he'd just watch TV....  I had to force him to get dressed and eat breakfast before he started cooking. We ended up using the phyllo dough to make a pie crust and I found a simple recipe for chocolate pie filling.  With the butter and sugar and chocolate, it can't taste bad, but we'll see.    Here's the pie filling recipe I found on All Recipes when I searched for "Chocolate pie filling unsweetened chocolate."  I'll let y'all know how it tastes. 3/4 cup white sugar 1/3 cup all-purpose flour