That yummy yellow stuff.....

Since I've been not working my days have consisted of taking Ethan to school, taking Noah to to the bus stop, watching my DVRd shows, cooking, cleaning, facebooking and organizing. Today I decided I needed to occupy Luke for a while so I took him downstairs to the garage and we went through some boxes we have yet to unpack. I found some 6M, 12M and 4T clothes! I need to figure out a better storage system for the kids clothes that are currently not in use. Right now I just have random boxes and bins with a certain size in them. When a kid grows out of a size I just switch out the entire wardrobe. My friend Carla and I have been exchanging kids clothes for a couple years now and it's worked out wonderfully! I just lent her my 5T stash and I currently have her 3T collection. I think something I'll put more effort into is obtaining some more rubbermaid tubs that all look the same and puting each size in a different tub. Its a bit challenging right now because Noah and Luke are roughly wearing the same size.

You know that yellow yummy stuff that they serve on the side of the entree at Chevy's?? That corn meal goodness? Tonight I decided I just had to have some so I looked up the recipe and made some! Here is the recipe for this wonderful treat! For what it's worth, I totally screwed up cooking it for an entire hour. The recipe tells you to put the 8x8 pan over a boiling saucepan. Well....I did this, but steam was coming out around the pan and apparently did not work the way I thought it would. An alternative cooking method is to put the 8x8 pan in a 9x13 Pyrex pan with an inch or so of water in the bottom. I cooked it for about 40 more minutes and it came out perfect (I covered the 8x8 with aluminum foil).

Tonight we went to our first parent meeting for Head Start. Not a great turnout but it was informative. Aaron and I volunteered to co-chair the Parent Committee and I volunteered to be on some sort of special committee. I'm pretty sure I have officially overextended myself but I like to be busy.

I did some power cleaning about a half hour ago. I find that the BEST time to clean (deep clean, especially) is at night. There are no kids running around making messes or playing in my dirt pile while I sweep, no noises, no distractions and most importantly, no excuses as to why I can't be cleaning. Sure, I'm exhausted after waking up at the crack of dawn, but the feeling I get when I flip on the light in the morning and my kitchen still smells like bleach and the floors are lickably clean.....ahhhhh...it's unexplainable. I cleaned the hall bathroom, swept the floor, cleaned the clutter from behind/to the side of my computer (to be fair, I stacked it neatly in my bedroom to be sorted through later), bleached counters and dining room table, bleached sink, did dishes, cleaned range and microwave. Aaron told me yesterday that his only fear about me possibly becoming a stay at home mother someday is that I will most likely forget to wash the walls......he's so silly.