I know it's hard to believe, but there are moments with my sweet bunch that I feel neck-deep in chaos...(Okay, maybe it's not that hard to believe)...like the other day. We arrived home from preschool pick-up, and shortly after had a potty accident to clean up. While I was cleaning up, my baby doll was squeaking, and I came to find out that there was a poop explosion out the edge of her diaper. After a quick bath for her, I came back to my potty trainee who had unfolded the recliner and was jumping off of it as you would a diving board.
And since I was de-griming and un-dirtying the house earlier, the vacuum was still out. Calvin happily started vacuuming (his new favorite thing), Jude was throwing a tantrum for some irrational reason (perhaps from being scolded for recliner-jumping), and Jada was squeaking at me, begging to be fed.
In order to expedite nap time for my crabby guy, I quickly got Jude's soup served, and sat down to nurse Jada, while watching my vacuuming prodigy and listening to Jude's expression of his desire to go ride a horse in his birthday suit.
My suctioning super star had then located the vacuum attachments and, upon hooking them up, began to hold the hose up to his face in order to let it suction his lip with a loud sucking noise, while squealing with his boyish grunt-giggle. Since Jude immediately recognized the genius of this novel idea, he quickly put away his food, balanced his cup of milk on top of his bowl of soup (yes, apparently it is possible)...after I nervously watched this teetering contraption arrive safely onto the countertop (I didn't get up since I was still nursing..), he came to join in the fun of facial feature vacuuming, while I tried to encourage them to suction other body parts rather than the ones we eat with. I finished nursing to catch a small puke bomb in my lap, while laughing to myself and fully appreciating the Lord's gifted design of those relaxing nursing hormones that lower your blood pressure. (And btw, I am happy to report that I emerged victorious with a clean house at the end of the day--a huge feat for reasons listed above.)
NOW for something that is along the lines of functionality...my sweet hubby let me invest a small fortune in this multi-functioning piece of equipment:
Of course I performed the necessary spreadsheet analysis first, to satisfy my own inner spreadsheet-loving geek, and also to be able to tell him that there would be a simple pay-off of less than one year. (I guesstimated conservatively some numbers based on what a loaf of bread costs, how many we go through, etc.). Turns out this will save quite a lot of money. I bought it from Paula's Bread since she was running a special with some extra accessories. And I also joined this food co-op to get loads of very cheap (much of it organic) food--grains, nuts, dried fruit, even perishables. I place my order online, and once a month they drive through the area, and for about $6 in shipping, I get 50 lbs of food delivered to town.
I'm extremely happy about this since I've been on a maniacal baking-spree and plan to continue for a very long time (now that I can make a 6-loaf bread batch--hooray!). I was feeling inspired by this "heavenly" blog and have lately been doing a lot of natural ingredient, grain-soaking, 100% whole grain sort of recipes that happen to taste awesome. Oh, and here's my other petri-dish style edible kitchen experiment. Home-brewed water kefir--purchased here--and if I add just a smidgen of juice, the kids guzzle it down like they don't even know they're receiving millions of healthy bacteria. (*insert evil laugh here*) It really tastes much better than the dairy kind, although I still keep that on hand for whenever I'm craving something gag-worthy.
Whew! If you're still here after the hour that it took you to read this posting..bless your heart. And may you have a functional, happy and healthy week....don't forget to smile:
6 comments:
That was great to read - actually I did chuckle a bit too - but it made me realize I've had a pretty relaxing week. Hugs to you ... (and thanks for all the health tips)
....and I love the pictures!
Good stuff Anna . . . some day you really will forget your boys' vaccuuming their faces off and you'll be so glad you got that written down! Totally agree on the nursing hormones--I miss them. ;o)
Loved all your healthy eating links, one of these days I hope to make such an investment. Homemade bread beats the store stuff any day. My mom has gotten me some stuff through Azure Standard, like steel cut oats (SO YUMMY and CHEAP!). I might look into your water kefir, I'm not a fan of the dairy one myself.
*LOVE* my Bosch! Your investment will be *so* worth it! I think if I had to give up all small appliances and keep only one......it would be my Bosch! All that yummy, whole wheat goodness that you'll be baking up now will come in handy for keeping your engines fueled and keeping up with all the action that is in your house. :)
LOVED this post! Good stuff...from the kid's to the mill! I'm sort of grieving the fact that I'm not getting Kathy's old mill, but I am just afraid I won't use it enough. I'm trying to "get rid" of my appliances and I'm not having much luck. I'm thinking a trip to the Goodwill might be in order at this point! Ha!
Hi Anna! Love reading your blog and just got caught up on your recent posts (-= You humor in the everyday life of being a mom humbles me and reminds me that God gave us our kids to enjoy and cherish!! I am interested in your water kefir....I watched the "how to" on the milk kefir on the website you noted but can you just use the same grains in water or is that a different kefir grain? Maybe I should just chat on the phone with you (-= Thanks for the info!!
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