on wednesday i finally went in and checked out our local library. they only do story time tues. and wed...we could never make it on tuesdays because gulianna got out of preschool the same time, and by wednesday i would already forget! we still missed it but next week we will go check that out too.
we might have drove the ladies crazy...anthony kept going up and down the stairs and when he couldn't see me he would yell out "mammy!" over and over!
it is just after midnight and i was checking my email...found this post from melody maybe i should have read it earlier! ha ha!
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so two and a half hours later my kitchen is clean. dishes are washed and put away. i started at 9:30pm. took two 5 min. breaks. swept and mopped. almost started vacuuming again...but i decided to save it for the morning. i need a shower again.
i chose to visit with my neighbor today instead of washing dishes. i could have saved it all for the morning again but then it would take away time from taking care of my kids and catching up on laundry. i hate waking up to a messy kitchen. but the last couple days i haven't been cleaning. i save it for the morning and then i feel like it wastes my day! ugh! so i stayed up late and now i'm back on track. {we were going to put in a dishwasher here but then i said i would rather have one more cupboard for storage...so no dishwasher. i only really regret it when i am washing dishes for 2 hours!}
but the truth is have i really done enough today? and every day? i feel like i am constantly cleaning, and i fill my day with lists of things to do and make sure i work on several projects a day to get things done around here...while my kids run freely and play all day! some days it's hard having three little kids. i try and make sure they help in the mornings and get their jobs done and then they are off! some days it doesn't always happen like today...there room is still not picked up. my girls will clean it tomorrow. i never let them get away with a messy room...i want them to know that it is their job to clean it and keep it clean. my girls have been sneaky...and disobedient by running off to their grandma cherrie's house or to the neighbors without doing their jobs first! lil stinkers! i need to spend more time with them, but it's hard when you have too many projects around the house. if our remodeling project was completely done, i would feel more organized in my life. it's hard having my scrapbooking stuff in the kitchen and not in it's own room! it's hard for me to share my little laundry room...then i get behind on my own laundry. etc.. okay i'm done for the night, good night or...good morning now!
the chickens got moved into their new house today, levi has been sick of them stinking up the back of his garage!
he built this for them last week and sided it with old barn wood that he's been hanging onto for a couple years. {half our place is still torn up, but the kids love playing in the trenches and the dirt!}
anthony couldn't wait to hop over the chicken wire to see the "deet deets" that's how he says chickens!
it still needs more work, and the boxes built inside, but they are still small for that! too many projects around here! at least they are out of the garage.
i painted the door green. i really wanted all the old paint scraped off, but i didn't have the patience for it anymore and i just wanted to start painting green! so it has an old crocodile look to it. levi needs his sandblaster fixed so i can use it for my projects.
we picked up a bunch of old windows on saturday...as well as ordered me a new phone, actually levi too. anthony was so kind to run mine in the sink so the screen has been broken for almost a week! levi's on/off button has been broken on his too, and when we took it to the store they had him open up the back and take out the battery just to make sure the water sensors weren't damaged...well that was dumb because then he couldn't turn his phone back on! we were cell phone-less for the rest of the evening til we got home and he got it to turn back on. i won't have mine for ten days or so.
this is my next project i'm working on...
i hope i can get it done by the weekend.
i've always loved this picture of my mom!
happy mother's day to my...
M O T H E R H O O D
is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in.
it is what G O D gave you T I M E for.
elder neil l. andersen quoting rachel jankovic
i am grateful for everything my mom has sacrificed for me.
wish we were in idaho to spend mother's day with her!
levi got the tire on the tractor fixed this morning, so we can get working on our garden! he was excited to be riding on it again.
our apricot and apple trees blossomed a couple weeks ago...and now they are all gone...wish it would last longer!
don't you hate when you find something you love and now they don't make them any more?!
i just realized that i'm down to my last package of pear recipe cards. i guess i better use these ones wisely. i had to do a recount of the ones i have recipes written down on...just to see how many i actually wasted because i hate when i screw up on my writing...
guess how many, 16!!! ugh! i wasted them!
so if you ever come across these and think of me, i will repay you!
gulianna has been wanting to walk to preschool by herself since the first day. i told her today that she could...and then i still walked with her! she said "okay by you guys i love you, mom take care of everything here!" then she left. and then i walked right outside to follow her, she was already past the driveway and she looks back and said "mom i'm walking by myself!" geez! so i went back in and grabbed my camera and then followed her to preschool. "ok, fine! but i'm walking home by MYSELF!"
only two weeks left of preschool...and then summer...and then kindergarten! nooo!
are any of you putting all those "pinned" recipes to use?
a couple weeks ago levi was making cheeseburgers for dinner on sunday and we didn't have any hamburger buns...so i turned to pinterest to search for a recipe. i didn't really want cheeseburgers on sandwich bread! i found one, tried it out, and it worked! first time making bread for me!
i used this recipe from frieda loves bread.
the only thing i was confused about was where the recipe says "2 - 2 1/2 cups of flour" i didn't know if that meant two 2 1/2 cups of flour = so 5 cups of flour total? or just 2 cups to 2 1/2 cups, meaning add another 1/2 cup of flour if it needs it. so i just stuck with 2 1/2 cups of flour and it worked. so first you mix everything with 2 cups of flour and the rest of the ingredients, then let it sit for 15 min. and then add another 2 1/2 cups of flour. got it?
everything was homemade...and tasted pretty good!
then last night i decided to make banana bread...actually i was going to make it in the afternoon but procrastinated all day. so by the time i made it and put it in the oven it was after ten.
just as i was about to pour it into baking pans, i realized i put a whole stick of butter instead of 3/4 a stick. so i was telling levi that the recipe had 1/4 cup too much of butter. oops! but then he said remember a stick is only 1/2 cup of butter. which i knew, but forgot because i was too tired! so i added another 1/4 cup and then put the pans in the oven. then i remembered that levi said the oven cooks hot so i turned it down...thirty minuted later when i checked on the bread smelled burning bread i realized i turned it up, instead of down! ugh! this is why you don't bake late at night! i pulled it out twenty minutes early and then just scraped all the burnt sides and bottom off. actually the burnt bottom just stayed in the pans!
here's the recipe i used for Cream Cheese Banana Bread!
got right to work and organized my kitchen drawers today...
