Mom-nesia Monday: Breakfast

Because I am so awesome, I thought I would make you all some breakfast.

Pancakes anyone?

Yes, this is what happens when you fry a pancake for 25 minutes while you take a shower and get ready.

And don’t let the picture fool you. Soft and fluffy it is not. More like frisbee hard!

Mom-nesia Monday: Wow, Just Wow

The past few weeks have been busy for me. (like you couldn’t tell by my lack of posting, right?) And for me, with busy-ness, comes more forgetfulness!

• I baked bread without turning the oven on. Not to self, this does not work well and results in an uncooked, flat and fallen lump of dough.
• I bought supplies for our VBS program. And walked right out of Target without them.
• I headed to the farmers market last Saturday (20 minutes away) and forgot my purse. No purse = no money! Luckily, the lady at the bank was super nice about it and I was able to get some much needed cash.

In other news…..I’m still pretty busy! Harvest season is upon us so I’ve been busy trying to get my freezer and pantry stocked for the winter. Last week I made up 30 quarts of my favorite sun pickles, and set them out for a few days in the clouds. Yea, it’s AUGUST and it’s been in the 60’s (for highs!) and cloudy and rainy for the last week! Not our usual August weather. Saturday I canned a few jars of pizza sauce, yesterday I shucked, cut, and froze 120 ears of corn. And today I’m freezing a whole re-usable grocery bag full of green beans as well as the same amount of broccoli. Tomorrow I’ll get started on my bushel of peaches! So I’m thinking I’m gonna have some late nights ahead of me as I try to get it all finished. Because working with 2 littles can be quite tiresome during the day! Now let’s just hope I don’t get the cold that’s currently going around!

Momnesia Monday : Bring a list :-)

So I’m out garage sale-ing a couple weeks ago and see some cute shoes for Cody. They’re a size six, and I know he’s a size six, and even though it’s his current size (I normally only buy one or two up) I pick them up because the price is right.
Cody was all excited about them and wanted to wear them the next day. So we put them on and tied them up. As soon as he stood up, he hollered “Mommy, hurt!” and sits right back down.

Hmmm. They should fit just fine, they’re a size 6!

But whatever, he wanted to wear his other shoes now, so we pull them out of the closet and…

A size 7.

Oh.

So this is why I normally bring a list of sizes needed when I go garage sale-ing.

Mom-nesia Monday: What a start

I had great plans for this post. Really I did. But maybe it’s fitting that I forgot about it until right now at 4am. And maybe it’s fitting that I also forgot that I had already posted the picture I had planned on posting today. Which has left me scratching my head as to what story to tell.

You see, I think the not sleeping through the night has caught up with me. And so has the taking care of two.

And I sit her at 4am wishing I was asleep, but I have a little girl laying next to me wiggling away and waving her arms like she’s in a parade.

So this is my post.

I just plain ‘ol forgot.

**and if you have your own story to tell, hopefully I’ll have Mr. Linky up at some point. As of right now it says my membership has expired. But that I did not forget to do so hopefully, it’ll be fixed soon.

Mom-nesia Monday: Another Mishap

Do you ever get in the middle of cleaning something and then totally forget to finish it?

Unfortunately I do.

As I was pre-heating our Foreman grill for chicken last night, I’m in the other room and I hear sizzling. Not something it does without the chicken in it. Didn’t think to much of it, until it got louder. As I got closer I smelled something.

The last time I used it I had started to clean it, but of course there was some stuck on mess…. so I put a damp rag on it to soak for a minute and closed the lid.

Obviously I returned later to think that it was clean and proceeded to put it into the cupboard! So I was not pre-heating it as I thought, but rather cooking up some washcloth for dinner. Yum!

Sometimes I’m such a dork!

Mom-nesia Monday: The Flashback

I had a major flashback to the vacuum incident yesterday. As I walked into the nursery, I was almost blown away by the stench. It was bad! Like gas mask bad.

Now, I normally change the bag every few days whether it’s full or not and I know I had just changed it. So I thought maybe it was just due to the fact that some of the ‘deposits’ into the pail had just been a bit stinkier than normal.

So I thought.

I again forgot to but a bag in something. Of course I found this out as I lifted the lid (while inhaling none the less!) and to my dismay saw about 2 days worth of nasty gross diapers just chillin’ in the pail.

At that point I should have just called a haz mat crew, but figured since it was my fault I better just hold my breath as long as possible and empty the little rotting gas bombs into a bag.

We actually had to open a window even though it was only 30 degrees outside.

Mom-nesia Monday: The bagless vaccum

Did you know that you can turn any vacuum into a bagless one?

That’s what I did.

This morning while I was in the midst of taking the ‘make your house a haven challenge’ to clean up the living room, I decided to go ahead and keep going with the vacuum. Normally I just do the upstairs and then a few days later, the basement.

Not this morning!

I was on a roll, and the little man was happily playing with his toys, so I did the whole house. I checked and emptied the already full bag and I was off! (notice I never mention replacing the bag) I was so proud of myself for being so thorough I decided to go one step farther and replace the bag with a new one for next time, whereas I normally take the lazy way out and leave it for the next time. And I opened it over the newly clean carpet no less.

You guessed it. All of my work…all over the floor again.

Animal hair, dust, crumbs, even kitty litter (I even did the utility room. I was sooo on a roll!)

All over.

In case you ever wondered…. no, you cannot turn your regular vacuum into a bagless one.

Until this past year I never understood why women always commented on how kids make you lose your mind. I do now.

Mom-nesia Monday: The loaf that wasn’t

Mom-nesia Monday!

Ahh….. the memory lapses have finally started to hit full force! My once over organized brain has become foggy. Which makes life a little sloppy. Luckily this pregnancy it seems to have taken longer to hit me, although I think Todd may argue with me on that.

At least it’s a real, scientific occurrence for moms. I’m not really going crazy! My brain is just thinking about other things.

Don’t try this at home

Well, try making bread, just don’t do what I did and forget that you have bread rising on the stove. I put it out to rise for 20 minutes and totally forgot about it. Two hours later I went back upstairs and finally saw it. Thought I’d cook it anyway, and it came out with a huge air bubble in the top 2 inches of it!

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