1 cup flour
2 T baking powder
2 T sugar
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 T oil
. . . YUMMY!!!
(this makes about 12-14 pancakes)
Blooming Elsewhere...
6 years ago
Saturday, June 7
Friday, June 6
My Friday
In case you ever wondered what it is like to be me . . . here is a glimpse of my day so far (it is a little after 2 in the afternoon):
As is usual for me during the summer and we generally have no where to be first thing in the morning, I slept until the first person smaller than me woke up and needed me. Today that happened to be 7:20. (Poor Rob had already headed out the door around 6 a.m.) I got milk cups filled for Rachel and Cole (the two little people who were calling for me) and set off to their room to deliver milk and get them out of bed. We wandered to the kitchen where I fed them bananas and waffles. Upon cleanup of hands, faces, trays, floor, and counters, we went to play in the living room for the next 30 minutes with play food, plates, etc. until Robbie and Alexa came out of their rooms. I got cinnamon bread and milk for the big kids and took the two younger ones to their room for diaper changes and to put clothes on so the others could eat in peace. Cole is quite certain that if food is out (any kind, anywhere) that he should be one of the people partaking and is quite loud in his declarations.
In the bedroom I made the necessary changes and we played with toddler toys and read books. Robbie and Alexa came in to join us when they were done. Rachel and Cole's room is not all that big so we were pretty cozy with all five of us in there playing, but we got along okay. We worked our way out of the room into Robbie and Alexa's by 9:00 and had just enough time for the R/C to make a good sized mess of the R/A's toys before I put them in bed with some books for a little quiet time. R/A entertained themselves with reading some books while I took a shower, dressed, and made myself presentable. All said this takes about 25 minutes; keep in mind, my standards of being "presentable" may be much lower than some.
At 10, I called a friend to invite her son to join us at the library for story time, and he accepted the invitation. I spent the next 20 minutes gathering library books (with help), making sure I had the library card, packing juice and snacks for R/C to eat on the way to the library, getting juice for R/A to drink on the way, fixing Alexa's hair, receiving and responding to 2 text messages, sending an email regarding one of the texts, and packing all (well, almost all . . . keeping reading) the kids and stuff in the car.
We went to pick up the above mentioned friend and realized that Cole was missing his shoes and then drove back home to pick up his shoes which were in the laundry room and then driving away once again to get to the library. We arrived at 10:50; I drove through to drop off our books in the outside receptacle to avoid having to carry in the load, drove back around to park, unloaded the crew, and got inside with six minutes to spare before storytime started. Not a lot of time for selecting new books, but we did a few minutes of browsing before we went to claim our seats for storytime. The next 35 minutes were spent trying to keep R/C quietly entertained while the older kids listened to the stories. Then I helped the three with their craft project while basically ignoring poor R/C, who were pretty tired by this time. When they finally gave up following me around from seat to seat as I helped the others, they sat on chairs and watched the doves in their cages. We then went back out to the children's area, selected more books, did more puzzles, read more books, and played.
The big kids were not ready for the fun to end so we called our friend's mom to see if he could join us for lunch which was approved. So . . . we planned to drive over to food market on campus where my mom is working this summer (had to turn around twice due to construction projects), but arrived before the tribes were overly restless and hungry. We got them all inside -minus one of Cole's shoes (are you noticing a trend?!)- and at a table. Thank goodness it was not busy at 12:30 on Friday because they were all a little excited, hungry, and tired by the time we got situated and food on the table. Thank goodness for Grandma too who was able to help secure drinks, appropriate seating, etc. Everyone ate -including me which is really exciting! I tried to clean up hands, faces, dishes, tables, and floor as much as possible and then we headed back to the van where we found Cole's shoe on the ground, loaded up, and drove our friend home.
I stopped for gas, denied myself the fountain drink I really wanted to get at the gas station, and got everyone home (2 asleep and 2 very tired) by 1:50. The two sleeping ones were taken to bed. With Robbie and Alexa's help, I got the library books, drink cups, craft projects and coloring pages from the library, etc. out of the van. They watched 15 minutes of a video about crocodiles while I checked my email, responded to one, and started this lovely (okay, perhaps- rambling and boring would better describe it) post. I gave a two minute warning for the end of video time, and at the end of the 15 minutes turned it off. Helped R/A separate books and get set up in their respective resting areas. I read Alexa a book, and then returned to my writings.
Now, here I sit (at 3pm) with no one needing me for at least a bit longer.
But it is not over yet, in the next 6 hours, people will wake up; snacks and dinner will be prepared, served, and cleaned up; we will swim/play in the backyard; I will get Robbie to/from a birthday party in a neighboring town from 6-8, I will clean up the day's piles, and four kids will be put to bed before I will be "off duty" for the night and hang out on the couch reading while Rob watches tv. Rob has to work an event this evening, but thankfully my mom will be done working in time to come over and stay with the three other kiddos, so they don't all have to tag along to the birthday party. Of course, those last 6 hours are all conjecture, who knows what will really happen! :)
Just for the record, I didn't share this picture of my life to make people think I am busier than you or anything like that, because anyone with kids is doing the exact same thing day in and day out. Those of you with older kids are doing more taxiing than this by tenfold likely. For those of you without kids or past the kids-in-home phase, I know you fill your days with other things. For all my friends with new babies (and there are a lot of you!) who will probably not have time to read this, I have to say that although I miss my little babies, I don't miss the days of last summer where I was like you are now, feeding people every 3 hours which feels like it takes up the whole day. Anyway, I just thought it might be interesting to share how things go in our world (and you can all be happy I didn't give any more details than this and that I chose today instead of yesterday!)
In case I forgot to mention it, I am having a great day and love my job! :)
As is usual for me during the summer and we generally have no where to be first thing in the morning, I slept until the first person smaller than me woke up and needed me. Today that happened to be 7:20. (Poor Rob had already headed out the door around 6 a.m.) I got milk cups filled for Rachel and Cole (the two little people who were calling for me) and set off to their room to deliver milk and get them out of bed. We wandered to the kitchen where I fed them bananas and waffles. Upon cleanup of hands, faces, trays, floor, and counters, we went to play in the living room for the next 30 minutes with play food, plates, etc. until Robbie and Alexa came out of their rooms. I got cinnamon bread and milk for the big kids and took the two younger ones to their room for diaper changes and to put clothes on so the others could eat in peace. Cole is quite certain that if food is out (any kind, anywhere) that he should be one of the people partaking and is quite loud in his declarations.
In the bedroom I made the necessary changes and we played with toddler toys and read books. Robbie and Alexa came in to join us when they were done. Rachel and Cole's room is not all that big so we were pretty cozy with all five of us in there playing, but we got along okay. We worked our way out of the room into Robbie and Alexa's by 9:00 and had just enough time for the R/C to make a good sized mess of the R/A's toys before I put them in bed with some books for a little quiet time. R/A entertained themselves with reading some books while I took a shower, dressed, and made myself presentable. All said this takes about 25 minutes; keep in mind, my standards of being "presentable" may be much lower than some.
At 10, I called a friend to invite her son to join us at the library for story time, and he accepted the invitation. I spent the next 20 minutes gathering library books (with help), making sure I had the library card, packing juice and snacks for R/C to eat on the way to the library, getting juice for R/A to drink on the way, fixing Alexa's hair, receiving and responding to 2 text messages, sending an email regarding one of the texts, and packing all (well, almost all . . . keeping reading) the kids and stuff in the car.
We went to pick up the above mentioned friend and realized that Cole was missing his shoes and then drove back home to pick up his shoes which were in the laundry room and then driving away once again to get to the library. We arrived at 10:50; I drove through to drop off our books in the outside receptacle to avoid having to carry in the load, drove back around to park, unloaded the crew, and got inside with six minutes to spare before storytime started. Not a lot of time for selecting new books, but we did a few minutes of browsing before we went to claim our seats for storytime. The next 35 minutes were spent trying to keep R/C quietly entertained while the older kids listened to the stories. Then I helped the three with their craft project while basically ignoring poor R/C, who were pretty tired by this time. When they finally gave up following me around from seat to seat as I helped the others, they sat on chairs and watched the doves in their cages. We then went back out to the children's area, selected more books, did more puzzles, read more books, and played.
The big kids were not ready for the fun to end so we called our friend's mom to see if he could join us for lunch which was approved. So . . . we planned to drive over to food market on campus where my mom is working this summer (had to turn around twice due to construction projects), but arrived before the tribes were overly restless and hungry. We got them all inside -minus one of Cole's shoes (are you noticing a trend?!)- and at a table. Thank goodness it was not busy at 12:30 on Friday because they were all a little excited, hungry, and tired by the time we got situated and food on the table. Thank goodness for Grandma too who was able to help secure drinks, appropriate seating, etc. Everyone ate -including me which is really exciting! I tried to clean up hands, faces, dishes, tables, and floor as much as possible and then we headed back to the van where we found Cole's shoe on the ground, loaded up, and drove our friend home.
I stopped for gas, denied myself the fountain drink I really wanted to get at the gas station, and got everyone home (2 asleep and 2 very tired) by 1:50. The two sleeping ones were taken to bed. With Robbie and Alexa's help, I got the library books, drink cups, craft projects and coloring pages from the library, etc. out of the van. They watched 15 minutes of a video about crocodiles while I checked my email, responded to one, and started this lovely (okay, perhaps- rambling and boring would better describe it) post. I gave a two minute warning for the end of video time, and at the end of the 15 minutes turned it off. Helped R/A separate books and get set up in their respective resting areas. I read Alexa a book, and then returned to my writings.
Now, here I sit (at 3pm) with no one needing me for at least a bit longer.
But it is not over yet, in the next 6 hours, people will wake up; snacks and dinner will be prepared, served, and cleaned up; we will swim/play in the backyard; I will get Robbie to/from a birthday party in a neighboring town from 6-8, I will clean up the day's piles, and four kids will be put to bed before I will be "off duty" for the night and hang out on the couch reading while Rob watches tv. Rob has to work an event this evening, but thankfully my mom will be done working in time to come over and stay with the three other kiddos, so they don't all have to tag along to the birthday party. Of course, those last 6 hours are all conjecture, who knows what will really happen! :)
Just for the record, I didn't share this picture of my life to make people think I am busier than you or anything like that, because anyone with kids is doing the exact same thing day in and day out. Those of you with older kids are doing more taxiing than this by tenfold likely. For those of you without kids or past the kids-in-home phase, I know you fill your days with other things. For all my friends with new babies (and there are a lot of you!) who will probably not have time to read this, I have to say that although I miss my little babies, I don't miss the days of last summer where I was like you are now, feeding people every 3 hours which feels like it takes up the whole day. Anyway, I just thought it might be interesting to share how things go in our world (and you can all be happy I didn't give any more details than this and that I chose today instead of yesterday!)
In case I forgot to mention it, I am having a great day and love my job! :)
Wednesday, June 4
Ramblings
Okay, I know I am probably in over my head now, but I thought I would start a second blog to be more for my ramblings and thoughts, misc. pictures, and ideas to share. With this in place, we will save our other family blog (Cowboy Hunts) for . . . you guessed it . . . family stuff- updates, photos, the who-what-whens of life. I have no time to write now because two of the four kiddos are pulling my shirt ready for me to look at them instead of the computer screen. Anyway, just wanted to make a quick post to this space.
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