Appreciating Life
Well, despite babysitting getting cancelled this morning, I was able to get an entire essay off of my plate! (Thanks for your help, Gram and Aunt Peg!) It was so great and perfect. I am almost ready to put everything together and send it off!!!
I wrapped Rebekah's Christmas present today. Something small yet signifigant.
I also made chocolate peanut butter cups that tasted good, but weren't really like a reese's. For some odd reason it's like the baking devil has crept up on me again lately... everything I bake is good, but not how it is supposed to turn out. Take the peanutbutter sandwich cookies for instance... I had to use whole wheat pastry flour... They were very delicious, but I would like to try making them with the unhealthy, bleached, white flour. They might taste better. Lucky for me, my dad tried them and said they were good before he got a chance to find out the "secret ingredient".
Then today, as I was stirring the chocolate for the cups, Ben saw me put a little bit of milk in the mixture. He said "Neenyell, me. milk. too!" and started opening the lid to his sippy cup like he wanted to pour it in. "No, Ben." as is the common response to him these days. But also like him, he can't EVER take no for an answer when he's bent on doing something.... so in went the contents of his milk cup. About a half cup of milk was added to the instructed two tablespoons. I tried to scoop most of it out, but it didn't work out too well.
So I guess for now, while the little man is still learning to bake, we'll just have to deal with soggy reese's cups!
But thats okay. It was an overall good day. I played a texting game with Rebekah that we like to play. We swap lines from songs with eachother until the other runs out or cant figure out what song the line was from. It's highly entertaining and is a very efficent way of testing your music lyric knowledge. I know it's weird, but it gets intense! I hopped in the shower while in the middle of a heat... and it doesnt slow down. I'm right in the middle of shampooing and I hear my cell start ringing my Taylor Swift ringtone..."Now it rains when you're here and it rains when your gone...I was there when you said forever and always." I grabbed my phone and texted right back to her. It's a strange victory, but HA! It was fun.
Well, trying to direct my post back to God, I did learn about patience today... revising and revising and more revising. Making candy with an extremely advanced two-year-old is not easy, but it CAN be done! Babysitting for my parents and being threatened with getting "fired." haha. Yea. It happened. But the upside to sitting for a good portion of the day is that I get to work on singing difficult songs in front of a very forgiving audience... my siblings. Sometimes Ben covers his ears and screams "NEENYELL! BOP IT!" But later he'll thank me for my beautious music, I'm sure of it.
I sometimes think about the difference between mine and Dillon's babysitting experiences... which will scar the kids worse...The loud belting, or the loud screamo music. Who knows? I prefer to stimulate thier brains with easy listening such as Norah Jones. Smooth, calm, sweet. It's so relaxing. Dillon on the other hand, well, his music is intersting. I enjoy a lot of it and so do the kids, but I wonder what Mrs. Patenesky thinks of her vibrating bushes in the front yard. lol. She's such a sweet lady, hopefully we aren't disturbing too much of the peace. I mean, there ARE seven of us. And we do like to be outside, and have our music really loud, and have parties, and mow the grass after dark because we have headlights on our tractor. lol.
We are a unique and beautiful picture of a family. God has helped me to appreciate our different style over the last few months (especially when the new shed is almost half the size of our house, and Hannah and Aaron like to box the play cube in with plastic.) God made our family perfect for us. We each add a different spice to the soup. My obsession with hand sanitizer, Mom's amazing dinners, Dad's precious shed, Hannah's new (and very loud) piano, Aaron and the sound effects, and well... Ben. The super cute, and oh so ornery littlest. There aren't many words for Ben... he's helping us to make them up as we go along. So here is to appreciating the differences in life. In my family. In my favorite friends.
I wrapped Rebekah's Christmas present today. Something small yet signifigant.
I also made chocolate peanut butter cups that tasted good, but weren't really like a reese's. For some odd reason it's like the baking devil has crept up on me again lately... everything I bake is good, but not how it is supposed to turn out. Take the peanutbutter sandwich cookies for instance... I had to use whole wheat pastry flour... They were very delicious, but I would like to try making them with the unhealthy, bleached, white flour. They might taste better. Lucky for me, my dad tried them and said they were good before he got a chance to find out the "secret ingredient".
Then today, as I was stirring the chocolate for the cups, Ben saw me put a little bit of milk in the mixture. He said "Neenyell, me. milk. too!" and started opening the lid to his sippy cup like he wanted to pour it in. "No, Ben." as is the common response to him these days. But also like him, he can't EVER take no for an answer when he's bent on doing something.... so in went the contents of his milk cup. About a half cup of milk was added to the instructed two tablespoons. I tried to scoop most of it out, but it didn't work out too well.
So I guess for now, while the little man is still learning to bake, we'll just have to deal with soggy reese's cups!
But thats okay. It was an overall good day. I played a texting game with Rebekah that we like to play. We swap lines from songs with eachother until the other runs out or cant figure out what song the line was from. It's highly entertaining and is a very efficent way of testing your music lyric knowledge. I know it's weird, but it gets intense! I hopped in the shower while in the middle of a heat... and it doesnt slow down. I'm right in the middle of shampooing and I hear my cell start ringing my Taylor Swift ringtone..."Now it rains when you're here and it rains when your gone...I was there when you said forever and always." I grabbed my phone and texted right back to her. It's a strange victory, but HA! It was fun.
Well, trying to direct my post back to God, I did learn about patience today... revising and revising and more revising. Making candy with an extremely advanced two-year-old is not easy, but it CAN be done! Babysitting for my parents and being threatened with getting "fired." haha. Yea. It happened. But the upside to sitting for a good portion of the day is that I get to work on singing difficult songs in front of a very forgiving audience... my siblings. Sometimes Ben covers his ears and screams "NEENYELL! BOP IT!" But later he'll thank me for my beautious music, I'm sure of it.
I sometimes think about the difference between mine and Dillon's babysitting experiences... which will scar the kids worse...The loud belting, or the loud screamo music. Who knows? I prefer to stimulate thier brains with easy listening such as Norah Jones. Smooth, calm, sweet. It's so relaxing. Dillon on the other hand, well, his music is intersting. I enjoy a lot of it and so do the kids, but I wonder what Mrs. Patenesky thinks of her vibrating bushes in the front yard. lol. She's such a sweet lady, hopefully we aren't disturbing too much of the peace. I mean, there ARE seven of us. And we do like to be outside, and have our music really loud, and have parties, and mow the grass after dark because we have headlights on our tractor. lol.
We are a unique and beautiful picture of a family. God has helped me to appreciate our different style over the last few months (especially when the new shed is almost half the size of our house, and Hannah and Aaron like to box the play cube in with plastic.) God made our family perfect for us. We each add a different spice to the soup. My obsession with hand sanitizer, Mom's amazing dinners, Dad's precious shed, Hannah's new (and very loud) piano, Aaron and the sound effects, and well... Ben. The super cute, and oh so ornery littlest. There aren't many words for Ben... he's helping us to make them up as we go along. So here is to appreciating the differences in life. In my family. In my favorite friends.
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