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Gratituesday: My Burden is Light

September 22, 2008 by Laura 17 Comments

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Every day we have to make decisions. And some of them are hard.

Matt’s boss is looking at possibly moving soon, although we don’t know how soon. We’ve know about this possibility for a while, so for several months, Matt and I have been talking about our future…what would be best for us to be doing as a family as we raise our boys into godly men…what ministries our family should be involved in that would work for our family as well as be a benefit for God’s kingdom…

And also, we need to be able to make a living, so that we can eat and all that stuff.

There are so many good ideas, so many great things to think about…so many hurting people out there who need love from Christians and the hope of Jesus. So whatever we choose or whatever job works out for Matt, we know that it will be one that will glorify God.

And because of that…I’m not even worried. I don’t have stress over the fact that Matt may need to find another job soon. (Okay, maybe I have a little stress…but mostly I don’t.)

When I look at all the ways God has continually taken care of our family…ways He has provided for us and given us more than we even need…I can’t help but feel peace about it. My husband is a hard worker full of ideas and vision for our family. (BTW, for those of you local readers…we feel pretty strongly that God wants us to stay here. Just so ya know.)

So, while we know we’ll be making some tough decisions in the near future, we know that God takes the pressure off by opening and closing doors as He sees fit. And that’s a really good thing, since we really have no idea what direction we should be taking.

We’ll just pray and listen and wait and watch for His direction. I’m so grateful that really and truly, God’s yoke is easy and his burden is light! He knows the plans he has for us!

Why, it’s all rather exciting, isn’t it!
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The Kitchen Overflowing With Fruit Whips Out Some Homemade Fruit Leather

September 22, 2008 by Laura 43 Comments

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When you look at an apple tree and see that it is loaded with fruit…it’s all so very pretty and exciting. So you begin to pick the apples and load your boxes…and it gets even more pretty and exciting. And then you go overboard because all of it is all so pretty and exciting that you just can’t stop picking.

And then, you go home with all of your apples, and someone else calls you on the phone and asks if you want some more apples. And you say, sure, because you just hate to turn away good (free) food. So then, you have even more apples.

And then someone else calls you (in the same day) and asks if you want some peaches. Like FOUR banana boxes full of peaches. And you get really excited (forgetting briefly about all of the apples) and say, yes, you’d love to have all those peaches. (And then you share some of the peaches because really, four banana boxes full? Have you seen a banana box?)

And then you get started in your kitchen making applesauce and canning and freezing peaches…and you keep working until everything, including your children, begin to look like either an apple or a peach. Sad, but true.

You decide that you’re kind of tired of doing the very same things with your fruit, so you try to make some fruit leather. And it works, and it’s yummy. Everything and everyone around you still looks like an apple or a peach…but at least now, you have another kind of snack stored away in your pantry for the winter. Hooray!

Homemade_Fruit_Leather

Here’s what you would do…

Apple Fruit Leather

1. Make applesauce as shown here.
2. Put a piece of buttered parchment paper on a cookie sheet and spread the applesauce about 1/8 inch thickness on the cookie sheet.

3. Put it into a 170 degree oven for somewhere between 10-18 hours or longer, depending on your oven. Your fruit leather will be done with it is no longer wet….just sticky and leathery.

You can add some kind of sweetener to it or maybe some cinnamon or nutmeg if you’d like…I just left mine plain and it is sweet and yummy as can be!

Peach Fruit Leather (So Easy!!!)

1. Wash peaches
2. Cut them off of their pit and throw them, skin and all, into the blender.
3. Add a shot of water and puree them until there are no chunks.
4. Spread it onto a piece of buttered parchment paper on a cookie sheet, about 1/8 inch thick.

5. Put it into a 170 degree oven for somewhere between 10-18 hours or longer, depending on your oven. Your fruit leather will be done with it is no longer wet….just sticky and leathery.

***A few things to note about making the fruit leather.

*While you are making it you might think that it is taking FOREVER. And you’d be right. It does. Be patient.
*My fruit leather didn’t dry evenly in my oven…so sometimes I would cut off the sections that were dry (so that they wouldn’t get overdone), and stick the rest back in the oven. This meant I had some weird shaped fruit leather, but I was going to cut it all up to store it anyway, so it didn’t matter.
*I loved it that I could put this in the oven in the late evening, then I could go to sleep and have it be all done, or almost done, when I got up in the morning!

I let us all have a sample taste….then I put it into a jar and into the pantry (should be stored in a cool, dark place). Right now we have so many fresh fruits available to us that I’m sort of hoarding the food I’m preserving. I’ll pull out the fruit leather on some wintery day when fresh fruit is not so abundant! THEN it’ll really be a treat!

Okay, I’m off to go start peeling more apples… :)

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Menu Plan for the Week Updated

September 21, 2008 by Laura 9 Comments

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This weekend I received more apples and more peaches. A TON more! Oh, and some grapes! So, guess what I’ve been doing all weekend?

Yep, going to soccer games.

Oh, and making applesauce and canning peaches. And experimenting with fruit leather. (**UPDATE** I just posted about making fruit leather here!) And making jelly. What a great year for fruit! Go God!

So this week, we’ll be eating apples, peaches and…

Sunday, Sept. 21
Oatmeal, fruit
BBQ chicken, cheesy mashed potatoes, green bean casserole
Bean dip with chips

Monday, Sept. 22
Whole wheat pancakes
Fried chicken legs, potato pancakes, peas
Tacos, pineapple

Tuesday, Sept. 23
Fried eggs on toast, clementines
Meatballs, corn on the cob, tomatoes, fruit salad
Chicken alfredo, tossed salad

Wednesday, Sept. 24
Sourdough biscuits with butter and honey, kefir-fruit smoothies
Beans and rice with salsa and creme fraiche (homemade sour cream)
Swiss steak over rice, broccoli

Thursday, Sept. 25
Applesauce bread
Turkey sausage, fried potatoes, mixed veggies
Beef stroganoff, green beans

Friday, Sept. 26
Breakfast burritoes
Hamburgers and onion rings
Cheesy Turkey Sausage Stromboli (hands down my family’s favorite dish), fruit salad

Saturday, Sept. 27
We just made plans to go camping with some friends…so I’ll need to figure out my menu plans for that…FUN!

Thanks to Organizing Junkie for hosting Menu Plan Monday!

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And…guess what?

I got me a new digital camera! Now you won’t have to see me in pictures like this. And…my new camera will let me take several minutes of video! For a LONG time, I’ve wanted to be able to put video tutorials on my blog for you. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure all of that out and post one soon!

So, what I wanna know is…what are you most interested to see on a tutorial video? (Just don’t ask me to stand on my head while chewing gum and singing Oh Susanna…I can’t do it.) (You’ll have to pick a different song.) ;)

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Schedule Schmedule…Making Lists and Being Organized

September 17, 2008 by Laura 19 Comments

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I used to be BIG into list making. I had to have every detail of my day written out in order to feel organized. I loved scratching finished items off my list. And if it wasn’t on my list, but I did it anyway, I’d quickly write it on my list, then immediately scratch it off my list. Weird, I know.

Somewhere in the span of having four kids…I stopped making so many lists. Funny, isn’t it, that now when I need to be even more organized…I have fewer lists. I guess it’s because most days I hardly have time to find a pen, much less make a list with it once I’ve found it. Somehow I’ve stayed organized anyway (mostly) (and except for my storage room) without my detailed lists. I guess all the lists are just somewhere in my head floating around all the time, because now it seems I’m just thinking hard all the time about all that needs to be done and what I’ll do next and who can help and who’s turn it is and what’s going on in the evening and what’s going on tomorrow and whether or not I have enough flour ground for the breakfast muffins and…

Please, would someone just hand me a pen!

Okay, really…I’ve got it all under control. Really.

And, let me interrupt this regularly scheduled program with a little detail about my organizational abilities. While I am quite organized in the way I plan and in the way I execute my plans, like with menu planning and school planning and schedule planning…and I’m able to get A LOT done in a day as a result…and everyone always tells me how organized I am…and it’s true…

I’m not altogether organized when it comes to having my sock drawer alphabetized and my cleaning supplies in rainbow color order. If you were to come into my house right this very minute and walk upstairs (carefully so as to not trip over any tinker toys) into my bedroom, you would see that I made the bed this morning, sort of, and only so that I could throw five loads of clean laundry onto it so that they could be folded. But they aren’t folded yet (because I’m blogging, for Pete’s sake…priorities, people). And if you went into my storage room (after you signed a waiver stating that you wouldn’t sue us if you injured yourself as you tried to walk through)…you would see that I’m not great about having everything in cute little bins with labels like Organizing Junkie, whom I think is the coolest. Oh, I wish I was that good, but I’m not. My organizational skills don’t go that far. So, while I’m pretty organized…I’m not always organized, you know?

Now, back to the regularly scheduled program…which just happens to be about scheduled programs. Or just schedules. Our schedule.

Several of you have asked how I am able to get everything done while I homeschool and cook healthy meals and go to soccer games and chase four boys and all that other stuff we all have to do in a day. So I finally was able to fit it into my schedule to work on telling you about our schedule. Coming up, I’ll share with you about our daily schedule, our school schedule, and whatever other schedule I can schedule in to tell you about. (If I keep writing the word schedule in this post all clever like, it’s just not gonna be funny anymore. Kinda like when one of your kids tells you the same joke 47 times during breakfast and you can only fake laugh for the first 26 times, then you’ve gotta start telling the kid to please, please learn a new joke.)

Knock knock? Who’s there? Schedule. Schedule who? Schedule really be impressed that I thought of this joke all by myself.

Get it? Schedule is supposed to sound like “bet you’ll”…get it?

Yeah, okay, I should really go up and fold that laundry… :) Alright, I’m on it.

But first, I’ve gotta know…do you make lists? Are you an organized person? How do you stay organized?

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Getting Real with Food: You Can Do it!!

September 16, 2008 by Laura 26 Comments

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If you’ve missed the other posts in this Getting Real with Food series, be sure to go read them!

All this information about healthy eating can be SO OVERWHELMING…huh? Especially if you’re used to buying and eating mostly pre-made convenience foods. Now you’ve learned that you need to “find good healthy sources of milk and meat from cows that have gone to college and have a Master’s degree”. And you should become the little red hen so that you can “grow the wheat, cut it, chaff it, and mill it” (Andrea’s fun commentary on what we have to do if we grind our own flour!). And “eat only organic produce that has nary a pesticide on it whatsoever and grew on a tree that was sung to sleep every night”. Please, can someone just hand me a poptart?

NO! Don’t fall back on the poptart! Eating healthy doesn’t have to cause stress. That would be…unhealthy. :)

I love to cook and bake, and it comes pretty naturally to me. Even so, when I began making healthy changes for our family a few years ago, I also found it overwhelming to think about all of the ins and outs of it. Cooking macaroni and cheese from a box would take so much less time and be so much easier than making macaroni and cheese from scratch from wholesome ingredients, wouldn’t it?

Guess what I’ve found? It DOESN’T take much longer and it ISN’T much harder!

Over the past few days, I’ve been charting some of the things I do in the kitchen…and guess what I found? All the work I do to feed my family a healthy diet really doesn’t take hours and hours. It really, really doesn’t!! You just have to get into the swing of things, that’s all.

Like, take for instance, the fact that I grind my own flour. This job consists of me pouring grain from a sack into my grinder…plugging it in…and turning the knob to “on”. Then, I walk away and do other things (like read someone’s blog, or check email!)…then I go back in and turn it off. Done. I’ve ground flour. Whew.

Or how about soaking the flour before you make your recipe? It hardly takes any time at all…you just have to plan ahead a little. Oh, and you have to stir.

And cooking a whole chicken? Well, yesterday I did this…and today…I’m not even sore. I stuck that bird in a pot of water with some veggies (that I didn’t even take the time to peel), shook in some salt…and walked away. The chicken cooked all day long, all by itself, and made the house smell really good too. Go chicken…go chicken.

And I could go on and on about the simple REAL FOODS you can make without difficulty. Cooking from scratch and preparing healthy meals doesn’t always mean that you have to labor in the kitchen for EVER. Often it’s just about planning ahead and getting the food started…then just waiting for it to be ready.

And…the more you cook…the easier it will be and the faster it will go. (I can practically bake bread in my sleep now…and I’m pretty sure I have on occasion…)

You CAN do this!! YOU can do this!! You can DO this!!! And you can keep reading my blog for more help…and you can email me anytime you want with questions. I love it when you email me! It excites me to read about the changes you’re working to make and to see that you care enough to try and learn!

So keep on making great changes and learning new things about healthy eating! Your good health and the good health of your family is worth it!

So…how are you doing on this healthy eating train? What’s going well for you? What’s overwhelming you? How are ya feelin’?
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Gratituesday: Got My Baby Fix!

September 15, 2008 by Laura 8 Comments

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I finally got to meet my new nephew last weekend! It was so wonderful to be able to hold him…and kiss him to pieces! (And, while little Austin was sort of the highlight of our trip…I also enjoyed seeing my other nephew and nieces and my brother and sister-in-law and my dad and his wife Tacy and her kids and two of my aunts and an uncle.) (Oh, and I received a great hug from Jayme via her MIL…and I sent one back for you! And one for you too Sally! Make sure you go get them!)

Of course now I miss everyone more than I did before…and I’m so glad we were able to make the trip!

Here are a few pictures of Austin with his (favorite) Aunt Laura. Would you believe this little sweetheart is barely a month old and he’s starting to give big smiles and coos already? I’m pretty sure it is all because he was so happy to see me that he gave some of the biggest smiles he’s ever given before…

Hehehe…look at ‘im! Isn’t he just yummy!

Oh look, Aunt Laura got this big smile out of him!!
Look at that sweet face. (His, not mine.)

It wasn’t until we were on our way home Saturday night, when I was going on and on about Austin, that Matt pointed out that he hadn’t had a turn to hold the baby. Ooops. I guess I was being a baby hog. Hey. We were only there for a total of seven hours okay? There was no time for sharing. You would have done the same thing, right?

This Gratituesday, I’m just so thankful for the chance to be with our family over the weekend, even if it was a crazy quick trip. And I’m grateful that Austin shared some of his very first sweet smiles with his favorite aunt. (Okay, okay, his favorite Nebraska aunt.) (Yes…all the other aunts live in Kansas, but still.) :)
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Awesome Easy Tomato Soup

September 15, 2008 by Laura 111 Comments

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Homemade Tomato Soup

It’s almost that time of year again… The time when we can warm up at lunch with a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup!

I LOVE this recipe that was given to me by my friend Anne…who got it from her friend Anne. (Yeah, like that’s not ever confusing.) Along with canning lots of tomato sauce and tomato juice and salsa, I love canning several jars of Anne’s tomato soup for the winter! (Wait, which Anne is that?)

Most of the tomato soup you’ll find at the store will have high fructose corn syrup or sugar in it…

This recipe has no sugar…which is amazing because it tastes so yummy and sweet! Once when Matt was eating some, he asked at least three times, “This really doesn’t have any sugar in it?” :)

Homemade Tomato SoupYum

5 pounds chopped tomatoes
1 cup chopped onion
3 Tablespoon butter
1 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

Put everything in a big pot and cook it for about 3 hours. Then, put it into your blender and blend until smooth. Freeze it, or can it following these canning methods (25 minutes in the water bath).

I love having recipes like this that are so simple to make and healthy for my family!

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Menu For the Week

September 14, 2008 by Laura 5 Comments

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We had a great, though short, trip to Kansas this weekend to attend a wedding reception. That was the real reason we went…but the really real reason we went is to meet my new baby nephew!! Mmmm-mmm! What a sweetie!

We arrived back late Saturday night (uh, early Sunday morning)…just in time to begin a new week which is absolutely FULL of soccer! Between Matt’s coaching schedule and the three older boys’ game schedules…we will be running to games Sunday afternoon, Monday night, Tuesday night, Thursday night and Saturday morning. Plus Asa has a practice right before church Wednesday night.

This kind of soccer craziness only really lasts a few weeks…so I find that I have to be very prepared with meals and snacks for all these soccer players! It’s all super fun though. I love soccer season! It’s so much fun to watch Matt’s team play, and to watch our boys play! (Except for when it’s raining.) (And windy.) (And cold.) (But other than that…it’s really fun to watch all the soccer.)

Last week when we were out at the soccer field in the evening, another mom asked me, “So, do you feed your family before the games, or after the games?”

And I said, “Yes, definitely.” ;)

Apparently during soccer season, we must eat dinner twice. (And do dishes all day…)

Oh, how thankful I am for Menu Plan Monday!

Sunday, Sept. 14
Oatmeal with raisins
Whatever we can find in the fridge (Choices: 2 heels from a loaf of bread, a bottle of ketchup and an okra stuck to the bottom of the crisper drawer…scary.)
Black bean salsa dip with chips

Monday, Sept. 15
Whole wheat waffles
Cheese quesadillas, pears
Chicken noodle soup, carrots

Tuesday, Sept. 16
Scrambled eggs, oranges
Taco potatoes, strawberry peach slushies
Take to the soccer game – sandwiches, carrots, apples

Wednesday, Sept. 17
Zucchini muffins, bananas
Homemade mac and cheese, peas
Roast, carrots, potatoes, gravy

Thursday, Sept. 18
French toast
Sloppy joes, baked beans, grapes
Cheesy beef and rice, green beans

Friday, Sept. 19
Mini breakfast pizzas
BLTs, pineapple-orange slushies
Homemade chicken nuggets and french fries

Saturday, Sept. 20
Giant breakfast cookies
Homemade pizza pockets, apples
Whole wheat pancakes, turkey sausage, scrambled eggs

I’m sure you all wish you were here for our Sunday lunch…. ;)

This week I’ll share my easy tomato soup recipe with you, and write more about Getting Real with Food! I’m also going to try to share a little bit of my schedule with you…if I can fit it into my schedule…

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Canning Tomato Juice and Tomato Sauce

September 11, 2008 by Laura 165 Comments

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Okay, we’ve covered the basics of canning…freezing corn…freezing green beans…canning and freezing peaches…making and canning applesauce…

Now lets talk about tomatoes!

Last year, I planted 40…yes FORTY tomato plants. On purpose. Because I’m crazy.

I ended up having SO MANY tomatoes, that by the end of the summer, I had canned almost two years worth of tomato sauce, tomato juice and tomato soup. And, I still had tomatoes! I was begging people to please come pick my tomatoes and take them far, far away from my house.

While canning that many tomatoes was a wonderful thing…I still hadn’t fully recovered from it when it came time to plant tomatoes this year. Therefore, I only planted 20 tomato plants this spring. *cough*

The good thing is…I never have to buy any tomato juice, sauce or soup. Ever. And the home-canned stuff is SO GOOD!!!

Here’s the way I make tomato juice and tomato sauce…

First, you start with bunches and bunches of pretty tomatoes, like these. You can take the skins off and the seeds out if you want to…I pretty much just WASH them. I leave the skin on and and the seeds in…mostly because I’m just too lazy to do otherwise. My family doesn’t know the difference, and you can’t really even tell that the seeds and skin are still there. At all.

Next, I cut the tomatoes into fourths and put them into my blender.

The tomatoes are then blended up until they are liquid.
(Mmm, tomato smoothie anyone?)

After I blend up my tomatoes, they go into a big pot. Obviously this pot was not quite big enough! Filling your pot this full will just about guarantee that your pot will boil over and spill all over your stovetop creating a cooked on tomato mess. (Picture of the boiled over mess not available…because I scooped some out before it boiled over, thank you very much.)

Next, I boil my tomatoes, uncovered, stirring occasionally. After a while it begins to look like this. Once that bubbly froth is just about all gone from the top (about an hour and a half or so after beginning the boiling process), you have made tomato juice, and you’re able to go ahead with the hot water bath process of canning tomato juice.

But, if you want tomato sauce, continue to let it boil for another hour or so. You’ll know your tomato sauce is done “saucing” when most of the watery liquid has evaporated. If you continue to cook it at this point, you will have tomato paste…which is fine…if you want tomato paste.

Can your tomato sauce for 25-30 minutes following the hot water bath instructions here.

Then, you will have tomato juice for yummy veggie soups and such…and tomato sauce for sloppy joes, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, enchilada sauce…and whatever else you use tomato sauce for. (If you want to, you can add your herbs and spices into the sauce while your making it so that you’ve got your spaghetti and pizza sauce already put together in your jars!)

I have a wonderful recipe for tomato soup that I’ll be sure to share soon!
Yumm-eeee!

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Helloooo! Is ANYBODY Listening?!

September 11, 2008 by Laura 23 Comments

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Do any of the rest of you sometimes feel like you can just talk and talk…and nobody in your house even hears you?

Of course, I know it’s best to keep the orders short and sweet…like, “Come. Sit. Eat.” Parenting does seem to work better that way. But I guess I like to talk more than that or something. I’m better at pulling out…

“Okay, Big Guys…Mama made you some yummy food…so everyone come into the kitchen…no…go into the bathroom to wash your hands…oh…put your shoes away first…then go wash your hands…be sure to use soap….Asa, take Malachi potty while you’re in there…then help him wash his hands…then Justus, you come into the kitchen and get forks out for everyone…Elias then you please….

“Wait, guys…are you listening to me? Hey…guys! Yoohoo, over here! HEY! BOYS! YO, BOYS!!!!”

At this point I usually get a response like,

“Oh, did you need us to do somethin’?” (And of course only one of the four even says that much. The other three are likely to still be focussed in the land of imaginary super heroes.)

Sigh.

So, yes, I’ve learned to get their eyes on me first, then keep the command as short as possible (if I can possibly contain myself and reject the urge I normally have to launch into a lengthy string of wonderful detailed information about how I’d like them to carry out the task at hand.)

The usual exception to this problem is when we’re talking about DESSERT. At that time, the boys’ listening skills appear to be somewhat improved. Enough improved that I actually have hope for their wives someday.

But yesterday, I decided to let each of them have one last ice cream sandwich from our last Azure Standard order. We’ve been rationing them through the month since they are such a special treat. Which means…you’d think that when I say the magic words, “Ice Cream Sandwich” they’d…you know…HEAR me.

So I’m in the kitchen and I say, “Hey, you guys can each have one last ice cream sandwich today.”

Nothin’.

I try again, “If you want an ice cream sandwich, I put them in the door of the freezer.”

One responder, “Oh, can I have an ice cream sandwich?”

Me, “Yes, I put them in the door of the freezer.”

Boy (who shall remain nameless…yet you can make a guess and have a one in four chance of being right), “Where are they?”

Me, “In the door of the freezer.”

Boy, “Ooh, I’m gonna go have an ice cream sandwich!”

Me, knowing he might not remember where they are, “Great. They’re in the door of the freezer.”

Boy, standing at the freezer, “MOM!! I can’t find the ice cream sandwiches!”

Me, “They’re in the door of the freezer!”

Boy, “I can’t find my ice cream sandwich!”

Me, “THEY’RE IN THE DOOR OF THE FREEZER!!!!” (For Pete’s…sake.)

Boy, “Oh, in the door of the freezer? Got it.”

At that point, the other boys perk up and say, “Hey, how come he gets an ice cream sandwich? I want one!”

Me (gritting my teeth) “They’re in the door of the freezer… Eat it in the kitchen… Hey guys, I do not want a mess…take it to the kitchen and stay there…. Boys – KITCHEN!…”

Oh, to my dear future daughters-in-law…I’m trying, I really am….

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