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Homeschooling in Illinois
Jun. 21, 2008
The Day That Would Not End
Yesterday I woke up nice and early - thanks to Lil' L. I felt good. I made the kids breakfast. And things went down hill fast from there. My mom took the older two to VBS and then did some errands. I needed to make some bread and I had been wanting some falafel. I decided that since Lil' L was sitting so nicely in her chair, I should be able to accomplish my goals. That was my first mistake. My second was when I made the falafel. I missed the step - drain the garbanzo beans. Fine, no biggie. I had falafel mush, but it still tasted good. I then started grinding the wheat and putting the other ingredients together for bread. Lil' L started getting fussy so I stop to feed her. I sat down in my chair, open my computer, and start nursing L. My sil sees me online and we start IMing each other. After I finished nursing, I laid L down brought my computer with me to the kitchen and tried finishing the bread. I ran out of wheat, so I needed to grind some more. I was still talking to my sil online and L decided she didn't want to sleep alone in her bed and started to fuss and Princess C was running up to me at that time to tell me we got a package. I hurry up to start the wheat, run to the front to find out what package came (I love packages) and was going to go get L when I notice that the kitchen air is filled with flour. I didn't close the grinder completely so the flour was shooting out all over the place. I took a picture, but of course the memory card wasn't in the camera so it isn't so simple to just put the pics on my computer. But flour was covering everything in a two foot radius. I went and got L and then just stared at the mess wondering how I was going to clean it up. Thankfully, my mom came home just then. Toddler B started sticking his hands in the flour, but got distracted when my mom came home with some grocery bags. He went straight for the eggs. My mom raced to get the eggs from him - meanwhile, Princess C pulled out the bag of grain - and proceeded to dump it out on the floor. Accidentally, mind you, but it was all over the floor just the same. So now there is grain and flour all over my kitchen!! And it's 11, and I am starving because I haven't eaten yet. My mom cleaned up the grain and told me to finish the bread before she cleaned up the flour mess. I hurried up and finished the bread and stuck it in the over. Phew. That's finished. I went in the fridge to get some food and saw the flax seed. I forgot to put that in my bread! That's the oil in the bread. Ugh. Fine, whatever, it should still turn out. 4 and a half hours later, my mom found the bread still rising in the over. Oops. Forgot about it. I think I'll stop baking bread for awhile!
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Ok, it's a few days later, and I'm not quite sure what else happened and in what order. I don't get much time to blog, what with the move and the baby and all. But I do remember that at some point we found Princess C on the couch burning up with a fever of almost 103. I also fell asleep on the couch and woke up when the kids started bugging me for a snack. Um... my eyes are closed, can't you figure out to leave me alone? While I was sleeping, they brought out a couple of games and apparently were fighting over them. I'm glad I missed it, but then trying to get the truth of what really happened is practically impossible.  I somehow managed to make dinner without a hitch. I thought my rough day was over. Until I went to sleep. And woke up at 1:30 am to feed Lil'l. And she decided not to fall back asleep. Until 4 am. But after that things only got better. After all, could they get much worse? 
Oh, and by the way, the bread was still edible. Yippee! hehe....
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Yulia 
Jun. 24, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Jamie
www.princessruby.blogspot.com