Cabbage Patch, a story of Addergoole

I had a request for stories of children born out of Addergoole after their parents graduate. This is one of at least 2 that I will write.

Bianca is the daughter of Rand and Acacia from Year 4. Harvey and Miliana are Xaviera's children by Ardell.

There were things Bianca remembered, years later, even when nobody said she should be able to. She'd been too little. Toddlers didn't know these things. But they did.

Some kids, their moms or dads visited every weeks. Some didn't even live in the crèche, just spent the days there while Mom and Dad were in school, or at work. Some came for preschool, and lived with an aunt or uncle or gramma in the Village. And then there were kids like Bianca, who might as well not have a Mom or a Dad (she was pretty sure she didn't, actually. She remembered, very clearly, being two years old and telling another child "I don't have parents. I came from the cabbage patch.")
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_Kids

First, invent the Rabbit... Saag Paneer from scratch

I recently saw this quote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM on a bumper sticker: Carl Sagan: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

It reminded me of the apocryphal recipe for rabbit stew that starts "first, catch the rabbit." (link)

By Sagan's standards, we did not make Saag Paneer from scratch. However, the paneer (cheese) was made from milk, buttermilk, and salt at home, and half the spinach and all the onions were grown in our own garden, so it does meet at least some standards for such (I wonder if one can can saag. I think you should be able to, with a pressure cooker)

It was, by the by, delicious. I'm going to to make more paneer soon. Assuming I still hae more cheesecloth.