ch paper is still sitting beside me on the desk. Toys are scattered across the floor and switching mine and Chelsea's rooms around is a project on permanent hold. But I've wracked up over 2000 points on Facebook's Family Feud and am having a peaceful afternoon enjoying Chelsea's dancing to country hits in the front room. And, at the end of the day, I know the FlyLady will understand! You can visit her site at www.flylady.net where she will walk you baby-step-by-baby-step through the process of getting and keeping your house in order and encourage you all over the place, every step of the way! (UPDATE: Make that 4000 pts. on Family Feud :O)OK, so I'm not that good at relaxing...I can't stay on the couch with the heating pad, no matter how hard I try! So at the moment, I have the heating pad crammed behind me against a pillow here at the desk, but when I'm at the desk (actually, the kitchen table-turned-desk), here in the dining "area" of my little 900 sq. ft. apartment, where I have full view of the kitchen and living room...and the dishes, and the folded laundry on the couch, and the toys on the floor, and the trash that needs to be taken out...well, I find it nearly IMPOSSIBLE to stay put!!! So, after playing a little more Family Feud, I decided to avoid ALL housework because, well--I have an injured back. And what better way to take care of my back than to cook Chelsea a big pot of goulash! A three-part process that took me nearly an hour, but she and Bethany--who is here to spend the night again since, well, we didn't even make it home Friday evening and Saturday was spent at the doctor's office, so her overnighter wasn't much fun (this is the "make-up overnighter")--she and Bethany LOVE the goulash.
Goulash is a favorite arou
nd here...and it's different every time! One of the ways we survive without an income is through food stamps and WIC ("Women, Infants and Children", a government program similar to food stamps for low-income pregnant women and mother's of small children). On WIC, we get beans, beans and more beans! Thankfully, my little one loves beans and when I hide them in a casserole, Bethany likes them, too. Tonight's goulash was a mishmash of taco-seasoning-flavored ground beef, fire-roasted canned tomato chunks, fresh garlic, great northern beans and small elbow macaroni (which hides the beans as they are the same color and size--sneaky, sneaky!) I mixed a little three-cheese ranch into the sauce before adding the macaroni then topped the whole thing off with thickly shredded mild cheddar cheese and baked it at 300 for about 30 minutes until the cheese melted down into the mixture and started to turn golden on top. Delicious!
So my goal for the rest of the evening, now that Bethany has arrived, is to let the girls play together and actually watch a TV show (from beginning to end!!!) that doesn't include colorful animals singing cute little catchy songs...maybe something with murder, mayhem and mystery or I may just watch an entire movie! WOW! What a thought! I don't have any idea what "grown up" shows are on Sunday nights, so rare is the evening when Chelsea's not in my immediate shadow at every moment. But I don't mind, she IS my little shadow and I love her!
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