| Saturday, September 12, 2009 | | Print | |
| Written by Alycia |
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12:30 AM I am just now heading to bed….one of our girl’s is having friends sleep over to celebrate her birthday. We just turned the generator off and are headed to bed.
7:00 AM Caden actually slept in a little bit! Now, it’s time to get up and start our day. 7:30 AM After doing the dishes and playing with Caden for a bit I make muffins for the girls for breakfast…tried a new recipe, Chocolate Cappucino muffins…they look good! 8:30 AM Toby, Caden and I enjoy muffins. Yummy! I turn the generator on and start some laundry (and coffee!). I learned that it takes 6 buckets of water to fill our large washing machine. I dry some clothes, iron, fill the washer for rinse cycle, fold clothes, dry more, fill the water again (wait, 2 rinse cycles? I must have chosen the wrong setting..no wonder this has taken over an hour so far!) 9:00 AM Toby and Caden go into town to do some shopping (when I say “go into town” it seems like it is a distance from where we live…in reality it’s only about 7 minutes away…about as far as it was from our house in TX to the rec center…so not far at all). 9:30 AM The girls are up and enjoying their muffins…I remind them to save a couple for the guys. 10:00 AM Start my 2nd load of wash…this time I use speed setting and I have the buckets pre-filled and ready to go! 10:15 AM A tailor comes over to measure us for outfits. A family gave us 12 yards of fabric as a thank you gift. I call Toby to tell him to come home as he and Caden are getting outfits too. 11:00 AM The laundry is hanging out on the line so I turn off the generator and work on putting cloth diapers together. 12:30 PM Lunch…tomato basil soup, grilled cheese sandwiches…not quite La Madeleine’s…need to work on recipe. 1:00 PM Electricity is on…all of us pile into our living room to go online and watch the Princess Bride which is on TV… uh-oh…It’s raining! Stephanie and I run out to get the wash off the line…the rain only lasts a few minutes. 2:30 PM Stephanie and I go to the market to look for fabric. We are quick, it only takes us 30 minutes! This is great as the day is hot and the market is CROWDED! On the way home we stop at a fast food place for coke floats…we buy 2 ice creams and one coke to make our own. We sit and enjoy our floats and conversation. 4:00 PM We stop at a shop to look at an ironing board and all of a sudden it pours down rain! 5:00 PM I begin getting dinner ready…PIZZA! We found some flat bread that has seasoning on it and we want to try it for the pizza. 6:00 PM We sit down to enjoy our pizza. David’s family joins us. The pizza’s are incredible! They remind me of Campisi’s….thin crispy crust, lots of toppings! 8:30PM Toby finally gets his slingbox to work and is sitting watching the TCU game (go Frogs!) while the ladies and I watch a movie on our “big screen” wall (ok…watch is a relative term as the ladies are on their computers the entire time). 9:15 PM The movie we chose is TERRIBLE…switch to the new version on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Toby still watching football. 9:30 PM Neighbors come over to check out the game, they have never seen or heard of such a device. 11:00 PM Heading to bed finally. Toby stays up to watch more football… 11:30 PM I am just getting to sleep when the dog starts barking! She barks for over a half hour! |