Nice

I came home from helping in Savannah's class to find

this message from Patrick on the dry erase board.

He had gotten everything ready for dinner.  The chicken

was in the oven covered in foil already. There was a

pot of pre-mesured water on the stove and a bowl

of rice measured out next to the stove.  How nice was that?

A nice dinner ready to go, without any effort on my part.

I think I'm gonna try this recipe to serve with our yummy

chicken dinner tonight.



Blunders

This is how I feel most of the time now.

School is wearing thin already.  I feel like I can't

focus at all.  I'm not here at all, it's like I've checked

out completly.  Everyday I have what I call blunders.

It started out once every few days, then once a day.

Now it seems I have several blunders a day.

I will share some with you all without all the details.

1.One day I gave the kids bagels with sour cream, not

cream cheese.

2. For some weird reason put our George Forman grill in our oven

 and forgot about it, later in the day I turned on the broiler.

3. I forgot to put the top piece of bread on the kids sandwiches

 for lunch.

 4. Put some semi frozen chicken still in the plastic into the oven,

 so the dog could not get to it.  Turned on the oven to bake

cookies ...  oops

5. Decided to add the extra flour & sugar to the big plastic

bins I have.  I swear the bag said sugar, so I dumped it into the

 sugar, turns out it was flour. 

I had a bit of a breakdown today.  I'm stressed out.  Many people may

think going back to school is no big deal, but to me it's huge, and I'm

not myself anymore  :/

Yay for weekends

This is what we were up to

Grandpa John & Grandma Shelley drove down from

Idaho, they got in Thursday night.  We met them for a

late dinner.  Here are the kids waiting for them to

arrive at the resturant.

     Savannah & Grandma in the shade @

     Griffin's soccer game (it was hot). We got

     ice cream afterward.

 Breakfast @ Flying Star yum!

We went to Burger King to get some

owl toys before heading to the movies

to see Legand of The Guardians

Trevor read the whole series this

summer (15 books I think)

He said they only covered the first 1-2 books

 and left a lot out.  He said he likes the books better.

 I made these with Savannah for her class,

they are yummy!

We had a nice weekend, now back to the grindstone!

  

My drawers are full

OF APPLES THAT IS......

Dixon Apples opened yesterday.  I could not go because of

 school.   Luckily my kind friends brought me apples.

This year I plan on trying my hand at canning.

These are what didn't fit in my drawers.

So glad Fall is here!

Warms my heart

Patrick is patient...... like 100x more patient than me.

He really takes the time to listen to the kids.  Whenever he is in
the kitchen to cook/bake something he makes sure the kids get
involved.  He gives them each jobs to do, and then  goes around
helping everyone with their task.  He talks to them, teaches them
and makes the kids really feel proud of themselves and what they
are doing.  I love when he's in the kitchen!  He's really busy now,
but he turns everyday tasks into learning Opportunities whenever
he can. 

He enjoys cooking, but most of all I can see how much love
and Patience has for our kids.