just fun and simple things today

My favorite thing today was hearing from Don. He is doing well and went right to work. So no time for him to do much else. He will probably be working from 7 a.m. to about 8 or 9 p.m.

Mayah helped me make banana bread today. I put a chair up to the island for her to stand on and then I pulled out the butter so it would be soft. I had to go out of the kitchen to get the recipe that my sister sent by email. Well when I got back into the kitchen Mayah had put the butter in the bowl. As soon as she saw me she said, "I did it". It was soooooooo cute. I looked in the bowl and only about half of the wrapper was taken off. And she had even put that part in the garbage. I taught her well. So we took the other part of the wrapper off and I let her throw the butter back in the bowl.


I was putting the boys to bed and Zach wanted me to scratch his back. I was laying next to him and he told me that tomorrow was mismatch day at school. I just about laughed out loud. Zach is very funny when it comes to dressing. I let them pick out their own clothes and more often than not he doesn't match his clothes. SO I thought it would be really easy for him to choose his clothes for tomorrow. But he wants to wear two different shoes and he isn't sure yet what else to do. We have to see what he comes up with in the morning. He kept asking me if certain colors match.

So tonight I wanted to make whole wheat pancakes. I remembered Laurel talking about a really yummy recipe she had so I was dying to try it. I called her up and got the recipe and was so excited because instead of using the whole wheat flour you just use the wheat kernals. I have alot of that. So instead of the pancakes we decided to try waffles. Laurel gave me a different variation to make the waffles. SO I mixed up the batter and heated up the waffle iron and once the waffle was done and I lifted the lid I was a little concerned about what I saw. It was pretty much gone. There was no substance to it at all. SO I had to take a fork and scrape it out of there. SO then I thought maybe I should just try the pancakes. Got the pan out and heated it up and put the batter on and they just all seeped together. Oh what a bummer. I let them cook for awhile thinking that maybe they would be ok if I just turned them over. I couldn't even turn them. So I made wheat pancake stirfry. I just mixed it all up and it literally was like a rice texture. I WAS LAUGING. I have NO idea what I did to mess that one up. I knew if I tried to serve that the kids would WHINE. They were so excited to have waffles. But instead they got grilled cheese.