It has been a while since I blogged. It doesn't seem like that long. I have taught both of Amber's primary lessons I promised to. I hope Sister Huff is really coming back now. I know why I am not a primary teacher at the moment. Every other week David has to go to a 7:15 am meeting with the High Council and I get to make sure the kids get up and go to church by myself. True, it's not as difficult as it was when they were little, but they really aren't morning people - except maybe Amber. I wish we had 1:00 church again!
This morning it wouldn't have been so bad, but I had totally forgotten I was teaching primary until I looked at the calendar at about 7:15. If the kids and I had been ready and eaten breakfast, that would have been ok, but I had just barely gotten out of bed. As Sister McCombs pointed out to me later, "It's a good thing you had a calendar to remind you." Yes, it is - at least I did show up to class. I had a few minutes to throw something together - even if we were 15 minutes late for Sacrament Meeting. Hopefully I don't get asked to teach primary again until we have a later church block.
My big thing this week has been organizing the kitchen. I found some web sites about food storage and one of them had a couple of short videos about organizing your kitchen and food storage room so they're easier to use and you actually want to cook. I can use all of that I can get!
I am pretty much done organizing the kitchen, which has been a BIG job. I have driven my family crazy, moving everything around - especially Cameron. I think he's still mad at me. In the long run, I think it will be much better. Our fridge is the cleanest it's been in a long time. Now I've just gotta finish the kitchen and then figure out the food storage room. The hardest part of the food storage room is going to be figuring out exactly what to store, since I can eat hardly anything and Jarom will eat hardly anything.
I found a food storage web site that has a picture of what a year's supply of long-term food storage would be for 1 person, according to LDS church suggestions. It really didn't take up as much space as I thought it would. According to the web site, everything pictured would allow 1 person to eat 1 loaf of bread and 1/3 of a cup of beans a day. Jarom thought the loaf of bread sounded ok, but he wasn't too excited about the beans. Me, I'm not too excited about whole wheat bread. I could do rice and beans, though.
David and I went to Emergency Essentials yesterday to look around. David bought 3 emergency ration bars - the type that are 400 calories with lots of vitamins, some protein and a tiny bit of fiber. Mostly they're white (wheat) flour and shortening with a bit of wheat gluten - yum! David chose three flavors: orange, coconut and vanilla. David and the kids tried the orange flavored bar. David and Amber thought it was all right, Cameron thought it was edible, Jarom said it was slightly better than beans and Meagan ate the corner of her piece and let Amber eat the rest. I guess we won't be stocking up on those. I don't think they're very nutritious anyway. Lightweight and will keep you alive - if you're not allergic to them - but that's about it.
On Friday I decided to be brave and attempt to make a green drink for myself. Sheri and David (brother, not husband) make them all the time. Sheri even made one for me a couple of weeks ago and it was pretty good. The directions Sheri gave me were pretty general, and I think I messed them up.
I think I crammed the spinach into the blender too tightly and didn't add enough frozen fruit. It turned into a very, very green drink, not pink like the one Sheri made me. It was kinda hard to swallow, but I did because it was my breakfast and I didn't have enough time to make another breakfast before work.
On my way out the door, with the cat, my very green drink and all my work stuff in my arms, David asked me, "Who's hair did you add to that?"
I said, "What?" and tried to figure out why he would ask me that.
"Oh, I said, "Because it looks like polyjuice potion?"
"Yes," he said.
"Well, not the cat's," I answered.
"Why not, Hermione did," was his reply.
"Yeah, and she hid in the bathroom all day and wouldn't come out," I said.
"That's true."
The cat did sniff the drink like he was interested in having some of it. I didn't let him. I drank all 3 cups of it and felt kinda sick to my stomach all morning. I think overall, though, it was very healthy for me...
This morning I tried making another green drink that was more similar to what Sheri made me. It was a bit closer, but still rather green. Actually, it was kind of brown - "chocolately" was Meagan's word for it. Amber's wasn't nearly as appetizing. I don't know why I couldn't talk any of the kids into drinking some of it.
The funniest part was when I stopped the blender, took off the lid and a big air bubble blurped up through the green drink. "That's pretty polyjuice-ish," she observed. "Have you been brewing it for a month yet?" I drank the whole thing, again. Maybe the third try will be the charm? After I finished the drink and put a little bit of water in the blender and whirred it around, Jarom came upstairs and said, "Hey, it's a Hulk drink."
Friday night Holly and Katelyn came over and took Cameron, Jarom and Amber to the dollar movie. They saw "Bedtime Stories" with Adam Sandler. They seemed to like it. I was glad I didn't go because I was falling asleep on the couch before they even left our house. Holly brought the boys home and Amber slept over with Katelyn. I can't believe Holly stayed awake that late. She did have to go pick up Gary, though - at about 1:30 am.
3 comments:
I like the green drink. Mom does not. Did she fill you in on the details? Ray wants to write a book about it...a cautionary tale, I believe. :)
what did your david get to do in the reinactment of the driving of the golden spike when you went to see it. it seems like he got to do something. i have to give a dup lesson about it.
ray can write a book about the green drink called, "what not to do at city hall" or "after green drink, do not go to city hall".
Yes, Mom told me the whole sordid green drink story. Actually, that's one of the reasons I wanted to start making green drinks for myself. That first one I made that had like 8 cups of spinach in it worked really well on me. Fortunately/unfortunately, I have just the opposite problem of what Mom has. My intestines don't feel nearly as inflamed as they usually do and that's very good. That would be quite the book if Ray should choose to write it. He could even include the recipe!
When we went to Golden Spike Monument, they chose David to "drive" the golden spike into the ground. According to them, David did it exactly like President Lincoln did - he just dropped it into a pre-drilled hole. No hammer or anything. It was a bit of a letdown. I guess if you really tried to drive a golden spike (depending on how pure the gold was) into the ground, it would flatten - kind of like one of the golden plates or something. The big spurts of extremely hot steam spewing from the sides of the locomotive engines was much more impressive - and a little bit scary with small children! I have an extra long color postcard of the two engines somewhere around here if you want to borrow it.
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