We’ll see each other again soon

We had a lovely going-away party yesterday. We had our book club and game night friends, comics and grad-school classmates, and Pilates buddies all represented! I cleared out some of my baking stores by making an oatmeal cake, oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies, a pumpkin candied-ginger pie, and a marmalade crostata (rustic tart), and people brought lots of nice savory snacks and dishes as well. It was so wonderful to catch up with friends I haven’t seen in a long time, and spend more time with people I wanted to get to know better. And we also unloaded a good amount of our stuff. 😉

A warm thank you to all of you who came — and everyone who wanted to but couldn’t. I could not ask for better friends!!

Oh, and an odd thing — I ate one bite of each of the things I baked, a veggie dip made with sour cream, and flat rice noodles, and my stomach hasn’t given me any problems at all. So… some gluten and some dairy are okay. I don’t know if I’ll ever get these stomach problems figured out, but it’s hard to feel sorry for myself.