Rebecca can't complain, but sometimes she still does.

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Nathalie told me and Sarah at breakfast this morning that she would be taking us shopping today between five and five-thirtry. But instead she left at 4:55, and since I wasn't in my room that time and she refused to wait for me, I didn't get to go. So I had to walk to the grocery store in the rain, and I'll have to do it again tomorrow because I can't possibly buy everything I need in one trip unless I'm in a car. I'm so pissed off at Nathalie that I won't even go into it.

Okay. Well, today Marlene gave me a copy of the stuffing recipe she used back at Thanksgiving. I'd asked her for a copy of it then, but I forgot about it and I thought she had too, until she translated it from German today and gave it to me. In case I lose the copy she gave me, and I probably will, I'm posting it here for future reference. I really want to learn how to make this. 

Marlene's Stuffing
Ingredients:
1 onion
1 apple
1 third a loaf of bread
Cream, butter, salt, pepper
Directions:
Cut the apple, onion, and bread slices into cubes.Heat a half-cup of butter in a frying pan, and put the onions in the pan first. Mix the apple and bread pieces together with salt and pepper, then put them in the pan too. To make sauce, add cream.

Marlene didn't go shopping with Nathalie today either, but that's because she's going back to Germany next Tuesday. (She's leaving early because she's going back to her university.) I have barely a month left before I go back to the United States. It's so scary that I don't even want to think about it. I mean, at least Marlene is going back to her university, her old job, and her own apartment in Hamburg; I wish I had that kind of security to go back to. But I just don't know what I want to do when I get back (neither does Heather), and one reason I came to France was to putt off making that decision. Meanwhile Sarah is staying here in Villers-Cotterêts to teach Chinese for another year, and she's been trying to convince me to stay too, which is just making things harder. This morning I was late getting up for breakfast (again -- there's something wrong with my alarm) and I told Sarah that at least when I'm gone she won't have to wait for me in the mornings anymore.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's me, aunt connie. Sorry I haven't written lately. I got your Easter egg candy, we all enjoyed it. I am horrible, I haven't sent you anything. Uncle John is still on sick leave. The 2 middle girls are tiring me out, I am exhausted with all the emotional drama. I am making homemade bread now, I am a great breadmaker. I make 2 loaves a day, I always end up giving 1 away. White bread is over a dollar now, homemade bread is 45cents a loaf to make. I hate making those Important lifetime dicisions, I am middle aged and I still hate making them, they never go away, and since I am married we both have to agree. What a pain in the ass. You are smart and wonderful and you will be fine, I am really not worried about you at all. I will try to write again more regularly. I would of loved to have been in that cemetary with you even with the cold rain. Also are you getting enough calcium in your diet. I used to get leg cramps and someone said to take more calcium and they quit. Good Luck.

legs cramps

[(Anonymous)]

one of the people I work with said if you put a bar of soap under your mattress you won't have legs cramps. I don't believe that for a minute and I am not even going to try it because it sounds so stupid