At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic
At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung
You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping
Your caffeine addiction level: high
Each day is a new day, and I know I could (and should) be ready to hit the ground running with new resolve whenever the inspiration hits, but it just seems to hit more around this time of year... It's a new year, though with New Year's Day falling on a Tuesday it did all seem rather anticlimactic- it would make more sense in my brain if it fell on a Sunday, or even on a Monday... Well, it makes no difference now- it already fell, and I'm just now getting around to hashing out some of my many ideas for resolutions, many of which involve improvements in the area of domestic arts.
One resolution I'm bound and determined to keep is to cook many more natural and nourishing meals for my family. There are many mini-resolutions involved in that one... I need to keep my pantry and refrigerator well stocked on a much more regular basis (like all the time); I need to expand my recipe repertoire; I need to enlist my little people as kitchen helpers (sous-chefs); and I need to plan my days and weeks better to facilitate all of the above. On that note, I'm off to plan a menu and shopping list, but I thought I'd leave you with a couple of fun links, which I hope will help in other areas of domesticity...
I've ask MM if I had homemade nutritional snacks in the freezer ready to nuke (there goes the nutrition, anyway) if he would heat and eat them opposed to his preservative laden favorites. He said yes, so this week I'm going to spend time fixing and freezing them for him...we'll see what happens?? With his asthma the less "junk" in his food the better for him but junk tastes good and is fast...sigh...another sigh.
Cooking and cleaning is one thing, but now you want me to fold the bed THE RIGHT WAY too?! Well, I think that's just asking too much.
As to the sous-chef's, my oldest made breakfast this morning. He burned the biscuits. When I asked him how long he put them in there, he said 10 plus 13 minutes! Huh? Ohhh... I had to explain (once again) that it means 10, 11, 12 OR 13 minutes-- not all of them added together!
I remember my aunt who is a nurse teaching me how to make a bed properly at my grandmother's house when she was visiting. I always think of her as I do my corners nice and tight! I am forever in gratitude for my sweet aunt teaching me this!
That shirt trick is amazing! I did watch it 2 times! I think I've seen that before, but don't remember when!
I could not get your link to work but I googled it and found a Japanese shirt folding video... I am assuming it was the one you meant. We all (whole family) could not stop watching it. Then I had to get out a t-shirt and try it and I did it! Wow! Amazing!
That video is absolutely hysterical and yes we watched more than once. I am not telling how many times! LOL, And yes, my dd 16 got out her dad's t-shirt and we figured out how to do it! Wow, the power of the video! Thanks for a fun time!
Hey, have you tried the scheduled grocery pick up yet? That would help with your resolution! Let me know how it works out. I'm a little tempted to do it myself and have it ready to pick up on the way home from work.
S
