Quirky Mom, Quirky Family
Have you all read this article yet? I bet you have. It’s had me in a snit all morning. I feed a family of eight (and that is not two adults and six kids – that is five over 18 and three under) for 100 – 150$ per person per month. I don’t do it by buying blue ice pops and orange soda either. [Read more...]
I have Kathy Bates (as her character in The Waterboy) in my head saying that.
Last night I put all of our monthly bills and expenses for each pay period from now until January 6 down on paper. I proceeded to flip my shit and look into shutting things off. I then realized I don’t have much to shut off and looked into other things to do. [Read more...]
Food shopping, when I have time, is kind of meditative for me. I make my list based on my menu. I go through my coupons. I check this weeks sales at no less than five stores. Then, one all of this is done, I decide where to go. Sometimes I wind up at all five places. Sometimes I do great at just one.
I could spend a couple of hours leisurely wandering the aisles at a well laid out food store checking prices and getting the most for my money. I get kind of panicky when I am in a rush and always wind up forgetting this or that or spending way too much.
This week we tried the new Winn-Dixie, which is just outside of my town (quite literally, on the other side of the road that is the division) and we heard great things about. We signed up for the tracking card that “gives you great deals!” and got going.
My brisket defrosted last night, so I am going to season and wrap it today and put it in to slow cook.
I picked up the slicer/shredder attachment for my Kitchenaid last night to replace my busted cheap ass food processor (I had a great ancient Cuisinart, but the bowl broke and I couldn’t get a replacement, so I picked up a cheap ass Hamilton Beach one years ago) that I had to Mcgyver to make work (I was missing that square oblong thing that makes the slices/shredder disk work). I got smart. I was gonna spend 50$ anyway, so I figured I’ll save counter space with an attachment instead of a whole new appliance. Yay me! Yay Gram for giving me money for it 
So I can now easily shred my potatoes and onions for my latkes. I am using a recipe from the Vegenomicon this year and the ones I made last night were amazing! I want to add some spinach and feta to them – anyone think I can still deep fry them, or will I be better off in a pan?
Eshiva is home puke-y today, so I’ll be able to clean and cook in between making sure she is ok.
Everything is wrapped. Gram & Zaide gave me a check to go buy for all the kids so I went to Target last night and didn’t spend half the money and I think they now officially have WayTooFuckingMuchTM. It’s all good – we got new wooden play food for Eshiva for the kitchen set, Dorian got some Star Wars stuff that Michael picked out for him, so I’m sure he’ll love it, and we got Malachai FunKeys on clearance. He is way into anything involving online right now, and these you plug into the USB and they unlock games and stuff online. I think the rest of their money will go to clothes. They are growing way too fast.
They each have about 12 things to unwrap, but at least 4 of those things are for all of them, and I wrapped everything individually (like Dad got Mal two Goosebumps DVDs – they got wrapped individually instead of together). I am trying not to feel guilty over being so commercial, but… I bet this is the last, or one of the last Channukahs with the great grandparents, and I want them to enjoy it. I know “stuff” doesn’t make the holiday, and it wont. We’re lighting everyone’s menorah this year (so we’ll have at least four going lol) and having people over most of the week. I’m pretty excited about it actually.
I hope Eshiva is feeling better by Sunday – the kids are supposed to sing at Chabad on Sunday, and they wanted to go the the Channukah festival too.
Any ideas? We got Malachai a present today, a new Sony Walkman 8 Gig MP3 player. Why? He has done awesome at school this year, homework getting done (not immediately and not without a fight but no where near the fight it took last year or the year before) so I wanted to reward his good work. Why a new MP3 player? I am fairly certain that his old one is in the undercarriage of the car. Yep. He left it somewhere it shouldn’t have gotten lost (his headphones were still in the car, mp3 player no where to be found) and I will not fault him on that one. If it had gotten lost in the house or out, then no way would I have replaced it. So, we got one on clearance today and I am filling it as I type. Back to the question at hand.
It’s a pretty small device. I’d like something a bit larger for him to keep it in so it doesn’t disappear again. Ideas? I was tempted to knit a cord around his headphone cord (big over the ear types, not tiny in the ear types) and put a little bag on the end so as long as the headphones are plugged in, the mp3 played would just sit in it’s case, attached to the headphones.
That is more work than I want to do today. Knitting a tube around a headphone word just isn’t on my list of “fun” for things to do today.
So… ideas? I can’t exactly superglue it to his arm
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