Thursday, December 7th

What got done:

Wrapped some presents for Becky and Kristi.

Browned eight packages of ground turkey meat.  Froze all of it in glass pyrex dishes for future dinners, except for the last batch.  Used that for tacos for supper this evening.

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Dusted, swept and mopped, picked up, the living room.  The goal is to clean one room per day so that on Friday, our designated cleaning day, won't be too overwhelming, but rather kind of relaxed and fun.  We all cleaned together in this room, although the little ones were just a token effort. Because we were all together and doing it at the same time, it didn't seem like it took too long. Perhaps an hour or a little less.

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Served good meals this day.  For breakfast, we had organic waffles with pure Maple syrup, butter from the Amish, and a bowl of strawberries.  I serve one Tablespoon of ground flax seed per each child sprinkled on their first waffle. They don't have to have any on any waffles they eat after that.  I used to serve the flax seed in their seed form, and this was good. It had a crunchy effect to it. But then recently I read that flax seed is indigestible unless you grind it. Now, I put it in my electric coffee bean grinder, but I don't care for the texture as much. However, the point of eating it is for the health, so it is better this way.

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For lunch, I had chicken stew in the freezer that I had dethawed the night before.  When I warm up chicken stew that I have frozen, I find it necessary to add a can of chicken broth for the consistency of it.  I added a can of corn, and some frozen peas.  By the time I was done adding the can of broth and veggies, the volume of the stew seemed to double.  The kids all loved it. My oldest daughter thought it was the best I had ever made. 

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For supper, I had browned turkey meat all day long for future dinners, and the last batch I added Ortega taco seasonings.  My dd says that this seasoning makes the best tacos of all the ones I have tried.   

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I did not push the school agenda today. It seems that everything has been on such high speed lately, that I felt an inner need to just 'be calm', and get things done that will enhance my life: making future meals by browning meat and freezing it, getting some presents wrapped, and cleaning one room thoroughly so that Friday is not overwhelming.  We did read our daily Bible reading and a few chapters from our Israelite novel.

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The children played really sweet together today.  They had built a gigantic fort by draping multiple blankets over our grand piano. They also played a game of pretending that they were reporters for Fox News. My youngest daughter was the reporter, my oldest the camera person, and my son, a casualty of the story they were covering.  They used my demolished kitchen as the back drop to a story about an airplane crash into a house.  If you seen my kitchen, with it's crumbling brick, you'd understand why this backdrop fit for the storyline so well.

When dh came home, while he watched Fox News, I wrapped a few more presents.  Later in the evening, we watched the videos of the kids news reporting stories. We had a lot of laughs and my dh found it all to be so cute and entertaining.