Iwandered, I'm sorry to hear about your mum. Is she getting care at home? There does come a point where that is not sufficient and there's no good option other than moving to a care facility. My mum and my MIL both had to do that.
havoc, those brownies look fab. What kind of museum did you go to?
Shoes, carrots clearly qualify as dull news. I put carrots in the Mongolian Beef yesterday and it came out very nicely.
Our builder came by yesterday and spent an hour measuring the kitchen and talking to us about options for flooring, countertops, and cabinets. She recommended vendors she works with for everything, so now it's on us to visit their showrooms and pick out what we want. I think we will do simple, Shaker-style cabinets, laminate flooring in an oak finish (to match the real oak floors in the adjacent rooms), and either quartz or granite countertops.
We have a tile floor now that I've never liked much. It's too hard and cold, and it's picked up some chips and cracks over the years. And the grout is impossible to clean. She also told us it would save us quite a bit in labor. She said retiling our floor would be a three-day job, and with laminate, they could install it in the morning once the subfloor was ready.
I didn't vote yesterday as the queues were reportedly long. My closest early voting site is open late tomorrow, so I'll go after work.