Afternoon

I let Samuel stay up last night, figuring that I wouldn't be long in going to bed but not remembering how blessedly long it takes the child to drift off once he's in bed.  We didn't fall asleep until after 10pm, but the boy was still up (as was his sister) at the chipper time of 7am.

My plan today was to get everyone dressed, fed and marched to the craft time/play group thing going on today at the family resource centre.  We made snails.  Out of paper plates.  I 'forgot' ours there because honestly I do not need another piece of glue-covered paper hanging around this house.  Let's just pretend I labelled it with the date and gently placed it in a silk box inscribed with his name to weep over in the years to come, shall we?

Arriving home...
So many things to do, prioritize.

1)  Realized with horror that the roast I had taken out of the freezer last night to put in the slow cooker this morning was still in the fridge.  Since the children eat at 4:30 this isn't great.  Also discovered that I am clean out of any interesting vegetables to add to said roast.  I hope everyone is in a carroty mood tonight because there're seven of them in the slow cooker.

2)  List of phone calls to make includes cancelling babysitter for tonight.  David is home!  Surprise!  Yay!  Also need to call internet provider.  Apparently the new tenant in our old place claims they said internet service was still in my name and they couldn't hook it up.  Provider assured me this was not the case.  Called back landlord to tell them this.

3)  Doctor's appointments.  Must make one for me.  Must make one for baby.  Bad mother with the eight month old who hasn't had a well-baby check up.

4)  Ugh.  Pumpkin that was cut up and steamed last night gets pureed today before next pumpkin batch goes in the stockpot.  Holy heavens I have more pumpkin than you can shake a stick at.

5)  Wait, stop. Did Grace write that birth story yet?  No?  Okay already it isn't like the woman has three babies in diap...wait.  Can I send you a casserole, sweetie?

6)  It's 1:30, everyone but me is in bed.  Homemade bread for lunch.  Just the bread.  The children had canned pasta earlier.  As you can see, it's a bit of 'survival eating' today.

7)  Funny dripping noise over by the Christmas tree.  (Hush up, you, the dead stick tree is still decorative).  Can't see anything.  This can't be good, though.  The last dripping noise resulted in a hole in my bathroom.

8)  Pumpkin can't be pureed - still too wet.  Back in the stockpot.  Blast it.

9)  Energy drifting away.  Tea and Persuasion on the sofa.

10)  Googled World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle and found this and this and this.  I think a framed jigsaw puzzle would be great wall art...but 32,000 pieces might be...a little excessive?  Woah, look at these!