Haggard Mom

Well, the wind is howling and the rain is pummeling the house. I am hopeful that the dying Arborvitae next to the driveway doesn't choose this day to fall on my car.

So, here was my special project for today:



There's a special secret about this cake:
It's vegan.

Well, it was, until I decided to put chocolate chips in it... anyway, it was so easy, between finishing the cooking of dinner and the serving of dinner, I was able to throw this together and shove it in the oven. Because I did a Bundt, I had to cook it way longer than what the recipe said. This seems to happen a lot... maybe it's my oven. So, you might also be interested to know that while it is not that high in fat (a 1/4 c of oil) it is *not* rubbery. That is my giant pet peeve about 'healthful' baking. Between fat and rubbery baked goods, I choose fat, thank you very much. It earned thumbs up from me and the kids. Yummy yum yum.

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My father in law just called me to tell me that Coralie has pus coming out of her eye, and her eye is getting inflamed. Oy!

Now seeing in my herb book that I have none of the herbs necessary to treat it at home, except Echinacea. That will take too long, so I guess I'll have to call the Dr. in the morning... :-(

So, Bob passed on sometime in the night.
Eulogies:
Husband: 'Goodbye Bob. Sorry we abused you.'
Coralie: 'Bye Bob. Sorry you're dead!' Pause... 'Ooo, can I flush??'


Welcome, Bob 2. Well, he was until Coralie decided to re-christen him Cobbler. (??)


A Swordtail. Hopefully, we'll have better luck with this one.

Had a work party at the preschool today. Felt myself starting to crash, so left early. Even though I feel on the mend, I'm still easily exhausted.
Said exhaustion allowed me to avoid a birthday party that Coralie went to for one of her school friends. Stayed home with Keelan and did puzzles and read some books. Husband messaged me with a video of the kids at the party running around shrieking, and a note, 'This is hell.' Bless him, he lasted the whole two hours.
Coralie's Betta, Bob, has some kind of infection. Poor Bob. We just moved him to a new tank, so he probably got stressed out. Probably didn't help that Husband dropped him on the table while transferring him. Husband is going to get some fishy medicine. He'll probably die anyway, but at least we made a show of effort. Also, Husband now agrees that perhaps a sturdier breed of fish is in order next time.

Delivered Dish. I love this service. I could totally drive to the restaurant, yes, but why hassle?? I mean, if the main point is to not cook, why bother going to the restaurant and having to deal with two unpredictable children? I only do this for the three of us, a few times a month. The fact that I don't order beverages, and am only ordering for one adult and two kids helps offset the giant delivery fee. Plus, tonight we had Marie Callender's, delivered by a cute Scotsman. Bonus! :-D

Alice. Because, why suffer getting TP at Costco, when you can get it IN THE MAIL?! I can even set reminders, so it will tell me to order more BEFORE I get up at 3 AM on a Sunday to pee and discover that there's no TP...
I can't even tell you how much fun it was to tell my husband we were getting TP in the mail... :-D


On an unrelated note...
This round of illness that has been ping-ponging around our household has shown me how woefully unprepared I was when it came to my herbal medicine cabinet. So, I have taken steps to remedy this by sending a significant sum of money to Mountain Rose Herbs. On my own, I will need to start some garlic oil. It just seemed silly to buy that when I can most certainly make it myself. I will also make some St. Johns Wort oil and some Mullein oil.

I FINALLY GOT MY THIEVES. Hooray! It smells wonderful, and I am wearing some today. It's very spicy. I'm going to dilute some to put on the kids feet tonight before they go to bed. So they can tell their friends next week about how weird I am...
I am feeling better today. Last night I decocted some diced ginger, a garlic clove, and a really tiny onion (golf ball size). I used the liquid to make a cup of Echinacea tea with half a lemon and a *really* big spoonful of honey. Tasty, it was not. All supposed to be good for a cold though. Plus, I GOT THIEVES. My in-laws offered to take the kids overnight last night and bring them back in time for school this morning. So, I had my un-tasty tea, watched 'Torchwood', took my NyQuil, and went to bed on time. And no little person at 2 am 'Mo-om, I can't sleeeep', because he was doing it to my in-laws instead! Dude, I slept a whole night, wow! Well, except the honking snore of my spouse...

I think I did too much today... a couple of short drives, an at-home bible study, and some activity in the kitchen left me wanting to be horizontal at 6 pm.
So, this will be a short post, as I have taken a dose of the red stuff (NyQuil, Red Death flavor) and expect to be unconscious soon...

I was going to make flautas today, since the kiddies were having mac & cheese for dinner (it was their choice day). I thought it would be so good if I could finally get a batch of home made tortillas to come out right, but alas, it was not to be. Observe, another batch of tortillas that turned into flatbread:
We'll eat them, but they aren't good for rolling. I have to try a different recipe... ended up making my flautas with some whole wheat tortillas that I had. They were ok, but I think for this type of food, white would have been better. More crunchy, I think.

Ok, I feel the meds now... sweet oblivion, here I come...

I.Hate.Being.Sick.
Haven't received my Thieves yet. I really need it right now. :-(

I was really looking forward to my NyQuil-induced death sleep last night... except that it was interrupted by my son. Three times. I really need to figure out what is up with that...

Feeling a bit guilty, since the preschool was (somewhat) unexpectedly minus a parent helper today, and I had some other things to do so I didn't stay...

Also feeling a little annoyed that I have to listen to The Husband SNORE while I am here on the computer... I was temped to go yank on his foot and say 'GET OUT OF BED, YOU BUM', but decided that would probably be mean. :-)

Coralie still hasn't gone to the bathroom, this is day #4. She had about 10 oz of a blueberry smoothie with yogurt and flax meal yesterday, and pineapple with her breakfast this morning. Gave her 6 Pedialax tabs last night (the maximum dose) but still no go. I am not liking where this is going... (or not going, depending on how you look at it) :-(

Got my tuna today, yay! 12 cans of regular, 5 cans of smoked, all LOCAL. Yum-o.