Bat Girl!!

These days Natalie loves dressing up; unfortunately all of our dress up clothes are of the male variety, so she alternates between cowboy, football player (with a helmet that must weigh as much as her head!!), pirate, and my favorite, batman/girl. Right now she has on a pirate bandanna and wants me to put one of Noah's cowboy boots on her. She can only walk with one of the boots on--if you can call it walking!!

Anyway, during my recovery, I have been able to catch up on some of the reading I've been wanting to do. I just finished John Adams by David McCullough, which was excellent--it really is history that reads like a novel. We also rented the mini-series, which I also highly recommend. I've also recently read Mozart's Sister, which is fictionalized history by Nancy Moser. I believe that there are other titles in this series maybe about Jane Austen and Martha Washington.

I, obviously, haven't been doing much cooking lately, but I'm looking forward to fall and was wondering if you ladies have any favorite soup recipes. I LOVE soup! When you serve soup, do you serve it as a meal by itself --or with bread-- or sort of as a first course?