July 18, 2008

• Week’s Wrap Up on Friday

  Jesse didn’t work yesterday and took the girls with him to run errands, and to give me time to get some things done around the house.  JanaLyn was supposed to be here and was late, so they left without her.  I still got Annamarie’s and Luci’s laundry done and some towels.  I used furniture polish on all the wood furniture throughout the house and 409′ed spots on the kitchen floor (I probably should have mopped!).

  Today I need to vacuum and clean the master bathroom.  I’ll probably do a few loads of laundry, too.

  It was nice yesterday with just JanaLyn and me.  She was good as gold.  She helped put away some of my big cleaned dishes.  She and I enjoyed a lunch of leftovers from Wednesday night’s dinner.  Then, we baked a cake.  She was thrilled.  She’s never done that before and she truly did almost everything except measure ingredients and crack the eggs.  She used the spatula to scrape the bowl and then the electric mixer.  After the timer rang, I showed her some secrets for checking to see if a cake was done (toothpick test and if the cake is slightly pulling away from the sides of the pan).  We popped the cake back in for another 9 minutes.  Pineapple Upside Down  Cakes take longer than the recommended time.  She was thrilled when we pulled it out.  It smelled wonderful. 

  I called her back out to the kitchen after it cooled a bit and showed her how to dump the cake upside down – thus making it a  “Pineapple Upside Down” cake!!!  She squealed when she saw the result.
  

  She asked if she could watch cartoons.  Playing in the girls’ bedrooms without the girls was as boring as it was at her own home.  She informed me that she was allowed to watch some things that I don’t allow my own girls to watch . . . one show being “Sponge Bob Square Pants.”  Seeing there wasn’t anything else worthy of watching (IMHO), I let her.

  I heard her calling me very quietly from the den, so I went to see what she needed.  She showed me Chirper.  She and the cat had been “watching cartoons together” and she informed me it had “made him very sleepy” and, sure enough, he was out like a light.  She was adamant that I not disturb him and asked me to take pictures.

  She was infatuated with his little nose, his little tongue (partially hanging out of his mouth) and his tiny teeth.
  

  She watched his every breath with her face close up to his.  He woke up slightly after I took the first picture, rolled over with his feet up, and promptly went back to sleep.
  

  She gently coaxed him back to sleep with a little singing and an occasional “shhhhh.”  She has the cutest little sprinkling of freckles across her nose and cheeks!
  

  Frankly, I think JanaLyn was in need of a nap, too!  She quietly watched TV, sharing a cushion with Chirper, until the girls arrived home.
  

  When Jesse came home with the girls, JanaLyn popped up, ready for action!  We made taco salads for dinner and Stephanie stayed to eat with us.  Rissy did most of the work and JanaLyn told her mother about the dessert she had made almost “all by myself, Momma!”

  I ended up with one of my occasional headaches that seem to be present again after 35 years (????).  So, I went to bed early.  JanaLyn spent the night since Stephanie had to work today.  I woke up to the sounds of four little girls’ voices!!!  Currently, they are in Annamarie’s and Luci’s room watching a ballet video.

  The girls watching ballet instructions.
  

  And, the girls watching me!
  

  I’m going to the Wal-Mart down the street, after Stephanie arrives here this afternoon.  I only need a few things (soap, lettuce, breakfast sausage . . . ), nothing major.  She said she wanted to go with me.  I think she only needs some odds and ends, too.

  Not much else planned unless God adds something to my blank day.  Tonight, it will be an easy dinner of pre-cooked fried chicken breast strips, flavored pasta and some sort of vegetable. 

  And . . . PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE for dessert!!!!!!!!

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