on of my favorite stages: the sucking on toes.
it is noon on thanksgiving and so far i have baked two pumpkin pies. one pecan pie. one loaf of cinnamon raisin bread. one loaf of walnut wheat bread. and the apple pie is baking in the oven. that is a lot of cooking in the past 6 hours. and i ran for 45 minutes. showered and dried my hair. and took care of childs by myself until 8.
whew. i am amazing. though i did all the pie crusts yesterday, except for the top of the apple pie. oh, and i did the apple cutting yesterday
turns out that i did not need to be so focused this morning, but i had never done all my baking the day of and so did not know. also. thought dinner was going to be at 5. it is going to be later. so i have plenty of time.
now i know.
just realized i forgot to put the butter in the apple pie filling. oh well. the two sticks of butter in the crusts should provide plenty of butter.
i used a lot of butter today.
and flour
and i tasted a bunch of yumminess.
since i have off obvious dairy (but not butter, b/c is life worth living without butter?), there are few side dishes i can eat. (i had green bean casserole last weekend, and boy, was liam fussy the next day) but i also made cranberry sauce yesterday (yes, from fresh cranberries) and will be very happy with it plus turkey plus my bread. yum.
i am very thankful for many things today. my unbelievably awesome husband and my unbelievably cute children. and pets. and my parents and sisters. and my husband’s family. and my health. and my family’s health. and the fact that though some members of my family are crazier then others we all love each other very much and enjoy spending holidays together.
(random note. it is still weird to think that ben is my HUSBAND. though this might also have to do with the fact that i rarely wear my wedding ring anymore. b/c i’m all like i’m not your property! though he did make me wear it while i travelled. and makes me put husband on forms b/c of legal reasons. i think once i stop being a homemaker i’ll stop being all like i’m not your property and rebellious again society’s pressure to be pair with a man. of course, ben is the last guy on earth that would be all like you’re my property!)
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I have no problems with wedding rings. Both men and women wear them. Maybe I’m jealous, but I like Byron wearing his on the road. I have bigger problems with engagement rings. How come a woman has to wear an “i’m taken” sign before she’s even married, but a man doesn’t? Plus it smacks of “buying” yourself a wife. Plus its completely bizarre how much money some people spend on them, and how somoe girls insist on certain carat weights before they’ll marry. Something seriously wrong with that.