busy day

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Slept in till 9:15 today, which I did not intend to do as I knew it would be busy. I wanted to do some baking and clean up the bathroom before my friend arrived, and that just didn't happen... oh well.

I made us all a big breakfast, which we finished a little after 10, then I dashed up to the market to get milk and a few veggies, then I threw together a pot of chili to simmer all day on the stove. My friend arrived just as I was giving the bathroom a once-over with cleaning wipes! hehehe

We had a nice visit, catching up -- I haven't seen her something like 6 years, but she looks just the same. She had some questions about LC because I had left my almond flour out (for the baking) on the counter, and later with lunch I was drinking a Thin Ice -- on sale for $3.99 a six pack! Unheard of! I have to go get more. I really like that stuff a lot.

The kids were great during her visit, which was nice. She was repeatedly impressed with how well they get along and how they play on their own. It was rather remarkable, there wasn't any whining the entire she was here, which was probably about 3-3.5 hours. For lunch, I threw some frozen wings on the grill and we had celery and carrots and ranch with that... I kept offering other things and she kept declining. Wonder if it was me or her? I'm not about to start worrying about that, she has known me long enough to be honest if she really wanted something she could ask (although I offered everything I could think of for her to drink, and she just wanted water, which of course is cool).

After she left, I kind of veg'd for a while, then I made the "not bread pudding" from the forum again (I swear, it's half gone already, the kids love it), and a cranberry-coconut quick bread in my silicone bundt pan. By then, of course, i should've been making dinner... ended up defrosting a steak for my mom & the kids to share, DH & I just had the chili. Yum. And of course we have a huge vat of it to look forward to eating. I need to find some canned baby corn so I can make some corn bread to eat with it, though! I was missing that sorely tonight.

This week is looking like a typical busy week, the 2 older ones have dentist appointments on Tuesday, and DD has a birthday party on Wednesday at Build-A-Bear (I wonder how much we'll end up spending there? She has Christmas money still, so I'm not worried, she may as well spend it there as anywhere else.)

I still don't feel as if we are back in the swing of the school schedule, it will take a while to get there... the kids did get in bed by 8:30 tonight and seem to have settled right down, which is key. They really need their sleep or they are just zombies, if there is such a thing as grumpy zombies? Let's just say they don't function as well. At least this weekend they did eat very well, which also helps.

I wish DS1 liked this coffeecake/bread pudding/whatever as much as the other 2 do. It has great protein and fats in it, it would make a great breakfast or lunch if only he would eat it! *sigh* He doesn't like any of my LC baking, but he doesn't like non-LC baking either (f.ex, he won't eat blueberry muffins). He really doesn't even like cake, mostly just eating the frosting. one thing he does really like is brownies (but not Atkins, ! Those were... not for us, let me say. I know some folks who like them a lot.)

Enough for now, I'm just rambling, but I still do have that "muffled" feeling and a general underpinning of fatigue. I hope it lets up!