Dinner

Ok, me being all HOMELY, ex-Mormony, Betsy Homemakerey.....decided to make dinner for some friends last night.
They have 2 young kids and so my choices were narrowed slightly.
What can you make that is impressive that kids will eat. Nada. I chose to make Spaghetti. (ROCK ON!) WHATEVER !
Kids will eat it.

I know I posted earlier about how I can now make it to the store with 3 kids....but the idea of running to the store for a few items seemed DAUNTING to say the least.

11am-I called my wife and with my sweetest, you know how much I love you, SOOOOOO much, how is your day, can you run to the store on your lunch, you are the neatest treat I know, voice.....I talked her into picking up some hamburger, red bell pepper (GREAT in spaghetti) romaine lettuce and croutons.

3:30 pm-I got Syd down for her nap, the house cleaned.

4:30 pm- I had both boys down. I started cooking, things were great.(again with Lionel Richie CD)

4:45 pm-The sauce is cooking and Spencer wakes up. no. no. no. This will ruin EVERYTHING. I race in to the boys room, it's too late to lay him back down and pat his back until he goes to sleep...I pick him up and start to rock him back to sleep. Cam sat up and looked at me but quickly laid down and went back to sleep.

4:51 pm-After working EXTREMELY hard at getting Spencer back to sleep and down. I carefully closed the doors to their room and walked away....then it hit me....I WAS COOKING....panic mode....run to the kitchen start to stir sauce....realize it's sticking to the bottom. Stir it up and decide that it's not that bad and it is still salvageable.

5 pm- put a call in to wife, can you stop on your way home and get french bread and shredded mozz for the salad ? Water started for pasta.

5:10 pm- add pasta to boiling water...stir until soft.

5:13 pm- Cam wakes up. no.no.NO. Run in to room pick him up without thinking and begin rocking him back to sleep. Eye's wide....looking at me like, I've slept...I want to get up now.

5:28 pm- Lay Cam back down. Proud of myself for getting a wide awake baby to go back to sleep. Very relaxed. Thinking of blogging. aaaaah. NOODLES. Run in to the kitchen. Turn burner off and pour pasta in to strainer.

5:30pm- looking at large quantities of noodles, pan of sauce. Great idea. Mix them together to take to friends.

5:32pm- noodles are VERY overdone. Breaking apart with every stir. Dinner looking very mushy. Stress setting in.

5:33pm- call wife. FORGET the store. Come home. We are stopping at Crown Burger I ruined dinner. Surprisingly not pissed about the whole thing. Proud of myself for not overreacting.

5:38pm- wife comes in, lay head on her shoulder...whimper about what happened...thank and apologize for making her run to the store. Wife looks in pot. says..."It's fine...don't throw it away...we can still eat it" I agree and we wake all 3 babies up to leave for friends.

What this all means......I AM NOT MY MOTHER ! :) She is WAY better than that. She would NEVER mess up dinner. She would have made a 5 course meal. She is still Mormon.

Here is a picture of the mush that will wait until dinner Saturday night.
It will wait because Friday night.....I'm GOING DISCO BABY. We are dressing up disco, getting JUST drunk enough not to feel when we fall and going roller skating for a friends birthday.
I will TRY and remember my camera :)

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The gates of control

I wanted to THANK the hell out of everyone for their advice and help.
We ran out last night and bought a gate for Syd's door.
The SECOND we put it up, she was a new person. It's like it gave her some control....it told her that we were on her side. She hasn't screamed at her brothers once. She has run and said, "no little buddy" slamming the gate closed in their faces, but hey....it's all good.
The boys haven't protested as much as I thought they would either. When she used to close the door, they would sit in front of her door and cry. Now they look through the bars and talk about things :) it's actually quite funny.

We are taking the advice of the Binky Fairy box idea. We are constructing a box today and I will again give Sydney the control of putting her binky's in the box for the Binky Fairy to take. I'm going to let it be her choice.
Of course in 2 years I will take the choice away from her :) ha ha
I think it's going to work like a charm. Oh no I din't just say that. Now I've jinxed the whole damn plan.

I also ordered, (J ordered from Amazon) the book recommended by Mommy, mama and cubs. 1-2-3 Magic.
I'm going to be a well oiled machine !

My boys are recovering from RSV, all that we are left with is runny noses and the occasional cough. Cam seems to be clear of it all together.
SO WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEMS ? They have cried at me for a week. Mommy is down to her last 2 little pink pills and all I think about is going in my garage and lighting up a cigarette. Now I don't smoke, so that wouldn't be a good habit to start up (again:) hee hee
My life this week has been utter hell and the only thing getting me through it are the occasional smiles and laughs from my children, and oh yes, the little pink pills.

So today my mom called and offered to take the kids tonight so that me and J could go to dinner. (she has talked to me all week and has heard the hell I live with day in and day out) My mom NEVER offers to do things like this ! I can't believe it !
In talking to her we decided to go to her house for dinner and play cards. Which involves eating loads of sweets and letting papa entertain the little ones.
At least I will get out of the house.
My weekend will continue like this; tomorrow I will take the kids on and let Jan straighten the yard up. We get to go to dinner with our friends tomorrow night (MARGARITAS, HERE I COME)....and Sunday is my scrapbooking day. An entire day devoted to JUST scrapbooking pages (probably 6...I'm not very fast) of my cute little babies.

There is this little light shining on me today. It's hitting me just below my eyes and I see a glimpse of relaxation and adult conversation. WOO HOO !

Singing ever so softly as to not wake Sydney..."this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.....this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine...this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine...let it shine, let it shine, let it shine."

Alright....Who's stinky ?

I bless each and every one of you with the same little light this weekend.

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