One Eye

Last night, Reagan whipped her hand across my eye.  She had a shoestring in her hand, so I don't know if it was the shoestring end or or fingernail (or both) that hit my eye.  This morning, my vision is blurry, I'm having trouble keeping my eye open, and there are lots of tears (this has been true all night, actually, but I wasn't trying to keep my eye open last night...).  Anyway, according to a web search, classical symptoms of corneal abrasion.  I can open my eye for a little while, and then I have to close it again.

Unfortunately, I had a list of things that I wanted to do today which involved driving.  I think that's out.  Ben will go with me to pick up and deliver milk today, and I guess the rest will wait for another day.

In the meantime, I guess I continue with the stuff I was afraid wouldn't get done while we were out today, LOL.

I forgot to mention yesterday that I made ice cream with honey.  We haven't eaten it yet, I put it in the freezer to harden and put the cylinder back in the freezer so it's ready for another batch either tonight or tomorrow.  I did have a taste, and it was yummy.

I managed to accomplish quite a bit yesterday--the kitchen partly cleaned and mopped (I ran out of steam there), the downstairs living room picked up, office picked up, laundry done (today is diapers and sheets), vacuuming, downstairs bath wiped down. I had a bit of help from kids.  Molly picked up her things in the living room, and Killian mopped the dining area of the kitchen.  I've got to work on keeping up, then this all won't take so much time.  

Stuff...

Well, I feel like I'm on my way, but it seems I always feel like I'm "just about" to where I want to be with stuff and then never quite accomplish it.  Here are my accomplishments for the last few days.  It's actually been a pretty good week, especially since we're coming off a busy few weeks of visiting and fun.  

1) I've cooked every night this week--Monday: chicken pot pie; Tuesday: roast chicken, rice, and corn; Wednesday: chicken soup from the leftover roast chicken; Thursday (today): black bean soup from a ham bone in the freezer.  It's clear out the pantry and freezer time, so I'm trying to plan and stay on top of the kitchen so that I can keep on cooking.  For tomorrow, there will either be steak, mac and cheese, and green beans or pizza.  I froze enough of that pizza dough last week that there is an easy meal of pizza to assemble.  The dough has not been declared "the pizza dough,"  but it is OK.  It might be better if I were using a stone to bake on.

Other food stuff:

Waffles 

Made Kefir

Harvested Kombucha

Made Graham Gems .  (The recipe is in the comments). I thought they were good, though a bit bland.  Killian liked them and then decided they had an aftertaste.  I haven't decided whether that was the coconut oil or the spelt flour.  I may try them another time, but if I do I will likely add the nuts or chocolate chips.  Started a batch of 5-minute Artisan Bread.  I have the book waiting for my pick-up at the library.  I will pick it up tomorrow when I'm out picking up milk, but for now, I got started with the basic recipe.  I'm actually pretty excited about this since the day-old bread store that was at the end of town moved like 20 miles away.  I hate spending money on bread.  This is strictly white bread, but I hear that some whole wheat can be added to this base--I'll experiment with that later. 

Other stuff:

Cleaned the upstairs living room

laundry, laundry laundry

ran to urgent care

went to the co-op to pick up eggs, coconut milk, and baking soda.  

Dropped off library books and picked up some holds.

cleaned the kitchen, except it's a mess again now, and I need to get at it.

dead-headed flowers and pulled weeds in the flour beds

harvested and dried oregano and lavender

meal planning--working on this and a grocery list

budget planning

planning a mid-summer planting.  I'll have to clear a new spot in the yard, but I have seeds from awhile back, so pretty much any food that they produce is free food at this point!  Already started some basil seeds--hoping for basil by the time the tomatoes are ripe!

Better get off of here so I can get some more done!

Well...

That wasn't how I expected to spend and hour and a half before lunch.  Molly was showing me how she could lift a two-pound weight over her head and then dropped it.  It landed on Reagan's toe.  I didn't see it hit.  I saw it bounce, and I started to say, "Thank goodness that didn't hit anyone's toes," and Reagan started crying.  We took her in and had an x-ray.  They didn't see anything.  The PA did say, "She had an xray on the same foot 18 months ago; what was that about?"  I told him that I had pinched her poor little baby toes in a door.  It's something I don't really like talking about.  She wasn't even two weeks old, darn it.  So, I'm thinking it was good I turned around the day I was about to take her in because she fell off the bed.  They'd probably be calling social services.  Ugh...  Poor baby.

I guess I have to get in the habit of watching my kids for a bit before I scramble them over to the urgent care center unless there is obvious urgency. Good Grief.

In other news, I harvested some oregano from the back yard today.  I plan to harvest some mint and lavender from the front flower beds later after the oregano is dried.  I don't exactly know what I'll do with them, but I'll have them.

I haven't had the chance to write about our great weekend fun yet either, but hopefully soon.  

Molly Update

The baby is fine.  Molly was throwing up all day yesterday, and her blood sugar was way down, and, thus, so was the baby's.  So, everyone's OK!  Thank goodness!

Molly (Grace)

I told Molly that she needed to say a prayer for Aunt Molly's baby.  She said, "Is it born yet?"  I said, "No, we just need to say a prayer that he's OK. Can you do that?"  

"You'll have to leave me alone with this," she said.  Then she walked out of my room, into the boys' room, and shut the door.  She came out a few minutes later.

Molly (Erinne)

Ben's mom called this morning to tell me that Molly is concerned about the baby.  She had severe heartburn last night, was really sick, and this morning the baby is not moving.  Please say a prayer that all is well and the little guy is just running out of room in there.  She is around 36 weeks, I think....

New recipes and new words

I'm trying a new pizza dough recipe today.  I won't be able to tell you the results until tomorrow, because it rises in the fridge.  I put half of the dough in the freezer for later, and have enough for about 2 pizzas for tomorrows dinner in the fridge.

Today, Reagan started saying Molly very clearly.  She's said it before, but not this clearly.  She stood by the door this morning when Molly went over to visit the neighbor girl, saying, "Molly, Molly."  And, again, just a bit ago while she watched Liam and Molly playing in the sprinkler out back.

So stinking cute.