Well I am on my second week of no work and I am enjoying it but I also want to get moving. I realise that I can't do a great deal but I still want to be able to do some cooking, get some more washing done. I know that I am going to make some soup for dinner, and may even be able to make something for desert. I kinda have the theory that if I can get the house looking good, nice food on the table then maybe Hubby will say that I don't need to go back to work and that I can stay at home.
I have a feeling for that I am going to be wishing on a miracle but they have happened before so there is no reason why they can't happen for me right?
So Master 9 has been asking all day if he can go next door and play, so me being the wonderful mother I am in a soothing voice said " no you can't"..........yeah like that has ever happened, it kinda went like this " Mum can I go next door and play" "No", Mum can I go next door and play?, No, Mum can I go next door and play "NO", now this went on for about 3 hours at various time increments until he was yelling from one room and I was yelling back. Then Miss 10 was doing something strange - I have still to work out what the sound was and I was yelling at her to stop it, then started the fighting so I bellowed from the other room to stop it. Now all the while I was doing this the TV was going, the kids were helping themselves to cake, and soft drink.
It wasn't until I had cut up the soup ( yes I took photo's and they will be included),put it in the slow cooker and sat down to write this that I realised the front, back door and most of the windows in the house were open.
So my neighbours must think they live next to a banshee, I am mortified to think that I had been bellowing at the kids with the doors open, if I had been doing it with them closed it would have been slightly less mortifying.
This year I was supposed to be transforming myself to the perfect housewife and mother - who doesn't raise her voice, has a wonderfull meal put together at the end of the day, clothes are all washed, ironed and put away. Well we are nearly at the end of January and so far all I have managed to do is kinda have a slap up meal ready, kinda have the clothes washed and put away. The ironing board is out with the iron on it - so it has made progress, and there is a basket of ironing sitting on it but little ironing has been achieved.
Now I do have to say that in all fairness I have injured my back so doing a lot of the housework - ok so all of the house work and cooking has fallen on my husbands shoulders, and I am trying my best to help out but I have kinda sucked at it.
So now that I am starting to feel better ( the meds have kicked in ), I am able to get stuff done - until tomorrow when I wake up sore and can't do a damn thing. If that does happen I do actually have a heap of stuff to do, like continue knitting Miss 10's scarf and stitching ( by hand) all of the scout badges on hubby's camp blanket - yes I did say by hand and when you see how many there are you will think that I am somewhat CRAZY ( and yes I am, just a little bit) especially when you see how many there are to sew on and the fact that I said I would do it by hand.
Now I sewed on 2 badges on my son's shirt and I did feel a great sense of achievement as I only swore three times as I stabbed myself with the needle, stitched crooked and had to start again, got a knot in the cotton, and my personal fav pulled the needle up it got tangled so I spent 5 minutes trying to untangle it with out trying to stab myself and swear loudly and frequently at the stupid needle, the stupid cotton, the stupid badge and me being stupid enough to say yes in the first place.
Ok as I mentioned I have mad some soup, you see we have had a week of cold weather so I figured that it would be a good idea to have something that is really warming.
Now this is the slow cooker I use, there is a story with this one. Long story short I got my old one out to cook in it and discovered that it had a crack in the bottom ( to be fair I had had it since I was 18) so it is bucketing down with rain and I had to race to the shop to get a new one and of course it was on a day where I had the kids with me and hubby wasn't home.
Now I cook my vegies and soup mix before I add the water. So in here I have 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 parsnip, 1 onion ( I told a lie and said it doesn't have onion because Master 9 hates onion), 2 potatoes, 4 rashers of bacon, some soup mix - I am not sure how much cause I just tipped it in till I thought it looked enough and a couple of stock cubes.
Now I boiled the kettle before I tipped it in, it is something I have always done ( I am sure there is a reason but I can't remember), and I stirred it before I took this in the vain hope that it would look good but the vegies sunk by the time I took the photo.Now we are going to be having Jamie Oliver's Thai chicken breasts with a garden salad after this, now I can't drink but I will also present hubby with a cold beer....cause Thai flavours mix well with beer and well I think he deserves a bit of pampering since he has been doing a great job of looking after me.
Toodles XXXXX
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