Anyone else struggle with asking the right questions?
Yesterday, Hannah had asked a couple of times if they could stay up past midnight. Three guesses as to my answer, it was “No”. Finally, I asked “Why do you want to stay up?” She explained that tonight the Mayan calendar ended they wanted to see what would happen. Oh, ok! Well, “How will we celebrate?” The triplets decided we would celebrate with sparkling cider. Luckily, I happened to have a bottle in the fridge, it is the holidays. What do you know an impromptu party! Hopefully, they will remember the fun times and not the times I didn’t listen or ask the right question.
Anyone else struggle with asking the right questions?
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I was supposed to bring cookies to Hannah and Nick’s guitar concert. I thought, I’ve pinned a lot of Christmas ideas/cookies I’ll use one of those. Well…Sam had been asking to make gingerbread cookies for about a year. Ok, we’ll make gingerbread and white chocolate covered Oreo’s with crushed peppermint candy. I decided a boxed gingerbread cookie mix would be fine. After going to two stores I found a gingerbread cookie mix. Actually, I could have gotten it at the first store if I had read the package correctly. Dang. They were pretty easy to make so I decided to tackle the Oreo’s.
On Pinterest this looked like a kid friendly craft. We got out the Oreo’s and began to open them. Next we needed to add the stick/skewer. I had bought sticks at the grocery store but they were too big. Ok, I’m off to the craft store to find smaller sticks. The craft store only had the same size sticks. I remembered I had some smaller wooden skewers at home. Dang. They ended up working perfectly. We crushed the peppermint candies and melted white chocolate chips. The chocolate was a little thick so I looked it up on the internet how to make it a little less thick by adding some cooking oil. That seemed to help, but I discovered it was easier to spoon the chocolate over the Oreo’s rather that dip them in the chocolate. We added the crushed peppermint candy and they looked pretty good. Let me know what you think. I discovered if you read the package directions and think through the pinterest craft it can work, if you’re willing to go to the store a couple of times and pull your hair out, no problem. Anyone else have trouble reading labels? I have yet to get home from the store with just a plain can of tomatoes!!! We finally made it to an In and Out Burger! The boys got hats and swore they would
wear them the next time they cooked. Tonight Sam asked if he could help with supper. Of course I said “YES." He ran and got his in and out hat and got to work. Nick decided to get in on the action too, and pulled out his in and out hat. We had such fun making dinner. It’s the little things that count. You’ve got to love a kid who says “WAIT MOM, don’t take the picture yet, I’ve got to wipe the plate like they do on the cooking shows.” I’ve said it before “Presentation rules in our house.” Any other families out there with presentation issues? Since we’ve been parents, Jay and I have never been sick at the same time. This year Jay got
sick first then I was down for the count. This experience has been hard. First I’m doing everything while Jay is sick, then I am sick and Jay takes over doing everything while he is still sick. We have a new respect for single parents and how hard it must be. Now we are trying to deck the halls I haven’t cleaned. Yikes. I need to get busy, I’m glad I got all that rest being sick. Below is our Christmas decorations. We need to get busy! |
I am an older mom with multiples. To say it the P.C. way, I have "advanced maternal age".
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