Feb. 17, 2009 Started Good, Ended Bad

Here's the run down of my day...
9 am on the treadmill for an awesome 1 hour workout. So good, I felt my heart pumping blood through my viens for hours! It felt great.







11 am off to the temple with the primary pres. Kathy Crosier. It was a nice, small session at a great time of day (no afternoon sleepies!)

2 pm home from the temple, house is trashed. Put a little effort into cleaning it while I talk to my mom on the phone for the second time today (will talk twice more before the day is through)

3 pm Addie's dance class. She is so darn fun to watch. I love this part of my Tuesdays

4 pm home to make cookies scouts and dinner while I talk to my sister on the phone. When John and I were first married, my sister gave me this recipe for cookies. I have never found a better one and wanted to share (sorry Cam, I have changed it a little)
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup peanut butter
cream these ingredients together well
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
1 bag milk chocolate chips
Mix well. Eat 3 cookies worth of cookie dough and bake the rest at 325 for 12-14 minutes
Whenever I make a different recipe John gets mad and says it's never as good. Try it out and let me know.
Dinner was a new recipe... my very first "Dinner Braid." I went to this bread class called Pantry Secrets. If you have not learned this method of bread making, you are missing out! I am a horrid bread maker, but have had so much success with this. I am loving it. So I made a quick bach of dough, rolled it out on a cookie sheet, cut horizontal strips down the sides, filled the middle (can be filled with anything) with a "leftover concoction" (ham, peas, mushrooms, and cream of mushroom soup- I know, yuck to me, but yum to John), then braided my cut strips back and forth (the kids helped with this part and thought it was so cool).

Baked this baby for about 20 minutes and it's dinner! Meat, bread and vegetable all in one! Wasn't a huge hit, but I think with a better filling, I'll get more enthusiasum. It still got eatten up!

Here's where everything goes down hill. I have to run out the door to scouts (my primary calling puts me over scouts, so I'm back in). I was having the boys help me with centerpieces and invitations for the blue and gold banquet. The plan was for the boys to finish painting something they had started and I would take the last half hour. I showed up 10 minutes late for scouts, but 20 minutes early for my part. All the scouts were sitting in cars in the parking lot! All the doors were locked and NO leaders were there. I got the attention of someone in the church and we headed in. Of the 4 scout leaders that should have been there, one called to tell me he was sick. I never heard anything from the other 3 and they never showed, so I just took over. I guess they are lucky that I was coming and didn't come at my scheduled time. I busied the boys with tying ribbon, cutting paper, and placing brads and pushed my frustration with the leaders to the side, so I could be kind to the boys. One of the boys had the responsibility to bring treats for his den. There are only four boys in his den and he wasn't informed that 2 dens were combining tonight, so he only had 4 treats with 6 boys there. Luckily, I had brought my speciality cookies. As I was busy with something, he passed out the treats, leaving out himself and a down syndrome boy. When our cute special needs boy saw the treat, he said "I love chocolate cake!" (it was brownies). I said "Who is willing to share with Kai?" Silence. I looked at each of them and they avoided my stare. Alec, the boy who had brought them, said "I didn't even get one for myself." "Thanks for sacrificing, Alec," I said to him "Who will sacrifice half of theirs for Kai? We still have cookies" No one answered. I made Kai happy by giving him 2 cookies, but I was so disappointed in my primary boys. I am so sad they weren't better.

John had dropped me off at the church, then came back with the cookies that I forgot, then came back to get me. I grumped out to the car and huffed myself in. When we got home I said "Thanks for running back and forth for me." And do you know what John said to me? "Anything for you"

I felt better until I walked in and saw the state of the house! Now, kitchen is clean, toys are put away, laundry folded, kids in bed, American Idol is on and my bathtub is calling my name! Night Night.

P.S. Still waiting for the kittens to come. I am thinking another week or so. I have been watching cat deliveries on youtube and reading up on signs of labor and complications in delivery. I even pulled out some rubber gloves, just in case. I'm sure I'll wake up one morning and there will be kittens on my bathroom rug. I will be so sad!