An Eggo crisis?

Are these people for real????  I saw the sign in the store a few weeks ago that they were out of Eggos, big whup.  then I read how parents were rationing waffles to their 4 year olds, are they serious?People ae in an uproar that they can’t feed their kids ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL AND PALM KERNEL OIL WITH TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID FOR FRESHNESS), EGGS, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SUGAR, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF SALT, CALCIUM CARBONATE, WHEY, SOY LECITHIN, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, NIACINAMIDE, REDUCED IRON, YELLOW #5, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), YELLOW #6, VITAMIN B12?  Why not take this opportunity to feed them some real food like, flour, milk, and eggs.  Waffles really don’t take long to make, and I think everyone seems to get a waffle maker as a wedding present, so why not put it to use.  A very simple recipe is:

1 3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
3 eggs
7 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups milk

mix it all together and cook according to your waffle maker.  What?  You feed your kids waffles because they are so convenient right from the freezer to the toaster?  Well, simple just freeze the waffles and whip them out for breakfast.  Oh, you don’t have time to make homemade waffles?  I think you do!!!  Do you cook dinner at night?  Sit and watch TV in the evening?  Well, then you have time.  You can make them at the same time you prepare dinner, or while you watch your favorite TV drama.

If you are feeling really courageous, you can use our favorite recipe, it really isn’t that hard.

mix together

2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons sugar
6 whole eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1 quart buttermilk

add in

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole-wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon baking powder

Then cook according to your waffle makers instructions.

And sit down and enjoy some real food, for once.   And who knows maybe once Eggo comes back online, you won’t want to eat them anymore (they taste like cardboard, anyways)

32 1/2 weeks

yep, thats how far along I am.  The baby is due at the beginning of January and starting to make her presence known more obviously now.  With the kicking and wiggling and such.  when I put the computer on my belly it rocks back and forth, when I stand I can not see my feet with out kicking them out in front of me about a foot.  I think Aba and I have finally agreed on a name we can both live with, and I have passed all the doctors tests and no longer have to go see any specialists.  At todays normal check up, she guessed our little girl would be in the 8 lb. range, which is fine by me!  It is the 9 pounders I like to avoid

On a side note, the energy I had pouring out of me last week when I was courageous enough to paint the toy room with all 4 of the kids house, has suddenly disappeared.  Yesterday I took a 2 hour nap, and many times I am reverting to breakfast for dinner as my energy flow seems to have ceased.  heck, this morning the kids almost missed the bus because somehow I was convinced that it was 3 am and not 6:30 ( but that may have had something to do with the clock saying it was 3am!!!)

someone doesn't think I need to use the computer!

life

Sometimes throughs you unexpected curvebals.   And this week seemed to be full of them.  The unexplainable dead chicken, the black cat running across highway 12 on friday teh 13th, the friendships that aren’t really.

It seems everyones life is full of drama, and no matter how much you try to avoid other peoples, somehow they try and suck you in anyways.

This week I was given the H1N1 shot, along with Littles and Rockstar.  apparently no one else in the family qualifies for it.  I wish they had told us that when we booked the appointments, before we told the kids they were getting a shot, and pulling them out of school for the day.  None of us would have gotten the shot if that was the case, but they assured us everyone would be getting it.

I got the joy of taking the 3 hour glucose test, it made me very ill, but i passed and am gestational diabetes free (I told them i was) but oh, well.

I got offended when someone I saw as a friend excluded me from an event. It has caused me to think about all of my new York friendships in a different light, and wonder if I truly have made any friends since I moved here.

Aba has started getting major migraines, that seem to come at random, but at least once a day for a few hours.  He has been popping Ibeprofen like mad to little avail and missed out on an event this weekend because of it.

Roskstar woke at 2 am crying Mommy in his sleep.  He calmed down and then woke enough to tell me his ear hurt.  There is nothing I can do besides pain medicine for him and hot showers till Monday.  poor little guy.

The anniversary of my fathers death was also this weekend.  Life keeps on moving by and you would think 11 years later it would not affect me so.  But I guess there will always be that one day a year regardless how much time passes.

I guess now it is time to reflect on what the week was and contained, and move forward with a clean slate.

 

2 peas in a pod and a rockstar

The sisters have always had a special bond. Littles looking up to her big sis and wanting to be just like her, and Princess loving to be a “little mommy” and dress her up like a great big doll. It’s no wonder they often end up in matching outfits when they come downstairs in the morning.

Since the day she was born, Navi has taken his little sister under his wing He would never stray very far from her, that is until lately when he seems to be too big, older, and must do things on. his. own. She still perseveres in being like him in lots of little ways though, While she is definitely a girly girl and doesn’t want to play football, she begged to be able to cheer for his team, to do whatever he can do, and imitates him in small ways that you wouldn’t notice unless you looked hard enough.

And then their is Rockstar, who defiantly goes by the beat of his own drum. Don’t get me wrong, Littles looks up to him with the same look Princess would give to Navi when they were younger, and He and Navi do have a brothers bond of getting in trouble with swords and sticks, playing war games, and the indignation of not being old enough to do everything he wants with his brother, but he also his own person. He refuses to shave his mohawk, end never feels the need to conform to his brothers or sisters in anyway (for the record, he was a Halloween vampire first, and when Navi couldn’t be a mummy as he requested, decided he would be a vampire too.)