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It has been an awesome day, just the right mix of everything for me. I did get up at 4:30, exercised briefly to get my blood going and stretch, and read my scriptures. With Jenny in school, I have a goal of having family breakfast at 7 and then family scriptures at 7:20 before she needs to head out the door at 7:40. So after reading( it took me 40 minutes),.....well, I may have come here for a few minutes, cannot remember.......I peeled potatoes for breakfast to boil them and then make homemade hash browns. Something I rarely take the time for before frozen is so much easier. I get those boiling and decide to clean the fridge. (Last night before I went to bed, I cleaned the windows, cleaned up the dresser and under the bathroom sink....all my little grievances after our deep clean day yesterday....so I want to keep this up and tackle all my little problem areas). I discover about 16 plums that I bought and then promptly forgot. Usually we would have eaten them in about 3 days but they were in the back of a very disgusting produce drawer.  They are way beyond eating by hand, but still usable for jelly. I eventually added about four nectarines to them. I decided to make some corn muffins for breakfast to go with the potatoes. Turn on cartoon for Levi (it is now about 6:30). The fridge is clean and gleaming. So proud. By 7 breakfast is all cooked and I am feeling pretty fine. And wondering if someone body-snatched me in the middle of the night because this is so not normal, but then if they did, I probably would not be asking that right, so I figure I am fine (I am serious, I actually had that thought process with myself ) Lay out some grapes that are good today but maybe not tomorrow, congratulating myself for the good save..........Read scriptures, get morning chores rolling. Get three munchkins dressed and yell at two older munchkins until they change Still all is good. Get the fruit simmering. Print out math. Do History, Geography, and Science with two boys and start them on their language workbooks (it has sections for grammar, spelling, reading comprehension, writing skills....) it takes them nearly all morning to finish a page in each section so they are set. Jessica is playing so wonderfully....I turn to my sixteen year old son and ask "should I interrupt a five year old's happy play to make her do schoolwork?" He grins and shakes his head no, while looking up from his biology book.....I congratulate myself on raising a wise man. But...right then, said five year old comes down and wants to know when I will help her with her schoolwork, all indignant like I am trying to get away with something. Right now! So I read her two chapters out of Magic Treehouse book, and help her with her reading workbook and her math worksheets. She is reading! Simple rhyming words but man, she is there. But 11:00, schoolwork is done. I have picked back up the living room, everyone is busy or happy doing their own things.....I lay down and take a nap!  I had a very lazy afternoon. Oh, I forgot that I had put a pot roast in the crock pot. I made my plum jelly, boy is it luscious. Made one of the best dinners I have made in awhile.......pot roast, homemade mashed potatoes, sliced cucumbers with salt, buttermilk biscuits and this amazing gravy....I had cooked onions and tomatoes with the roast so I just processed them in the food processor and that was our gravy. So good...I will have to do that every time. Amazing how good food can make a home feel.....everyone well fed and content. I should do that more often....lately my meals have been more quick and effortless. And then I caught the last hour of the new Pride and Prejudice. I have been resisting watching it because I did not "approve' of the lighter tone of the movie from the previews. Jane Austin does not need messing with, thank you very much. But it was fine....I even enjoyed it. And now we are doing our evening chores ( or I will be when I get off here) so we will go to sleep in a clean house two nights in a row. Wow, what a day. Think I can do this tomorrow? Maybe they will switch me back in my sleep tonight...... Steph |
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