Homebound

I will never qualify as a domestic goddess, but today I think I at least earned the title domestic diva.. I stayed home ALL DAY, mostly minding my business and trying to do that homemaking thing. Olivia and I decided we would make brownies for the kids for after school. We got the cocoa melted into the butter, and the eggs and sugar in the bowl before I realized I didn't have enough flour. I didn't have time to run to the store, as that would have involved removing the ragged princess dress from Olivia, finding her shoes, combing my hair, etc...and none of my good-for-borrowing-things-from-neighbors were home....I was about to throw in the towel when I remembered.....FOOD STORAGE!...and sure enough, two 25 lb bags of flour were sitting in my basement stash, just waiting to be needed. I so know now that my food storage is true.
Next item on the list was dinner, and please forgive my prideful boasting, but I made the best beef and broccoli that I have ever tasted, for PENNIES compared to what it would cost at some Chinese food joint,, and now I am starting a food blog to keep track of good, fast cheap stuff we like to eat. Maybe if I keep track of all my ideas in one place, I won't spend so much time in the kitchen, staring at the cupboard doors for inspiration at 5:00 on a Tuesday night.

Next, taking a page out of the book of Super Nanny, Liv and I made a "mad chair" for her today. It is really just her old bathroom stool that we cleaned up and put stickers on, which she really grooved on. She really hates the whole time-out idea, and keeps telling me that she will never need to use it. I on the other hand, CAN"T WAIT to use it. We have needed some new strategies with her for a while, which I realized the day I found myself acting like a two-year-old in response to my three-year-old's behavior. Hey, if it works half as good around here as it does for Super Nanny, we are in business!

Now I am off to referee the discussion going on in the kitchen between Will and Audrey. It involves how the mythical creatures they are inventing for Will's novel will reproduce. Audrey is saying something about eyeballs....