It's only 9:30 a.m., and I already need a do-over on this day. It started early, fighting with Sarah before school. While Noah was at driver's ed, I had a couple errands to run. I drove to Dollar Tree and parked before I remembered it doesn't open until 9:00. So I drove to Kroger, parked, went to get my purse...realized it's in the other car. I scrounged up all the loose change and emergency bills I could find, and counted a little more than five dollars. Can't buy much with that, but I went in to see what I could do. I ended up with enough marked-down items from the produce section that I could turn them into lunch: kale, mushrooms, and beets. I had to put the apples back because I couldn't afford them. I was too ashamed to go to the regular checkout lane with all my pennies and dimes, so I went to the U-Scan and fed them into the machine, which took a long time.
After Noah's class, I decided to make zucchini muffins for breakfast while he started on his English lesson. I poured hot water into a cookie sheet and put the muffin tin on top of that. My plan was to bake the crud off the cookie sheet and also to keep the muffins moist while they baked. I stupidly didn't open the oven door before I got to it with a pan that was stupidly too full of hot water. I needed Noah to open the oven door but didn't want to disturb his adverb lesson, so I tried to balance the pan and do it myself. I dropped it and spilled hot water all over myself and the floor. After I cleaned all that up, the muffins were ready to go in the oven. The recipe said to bake them for 10 minutes. After 30 minutes, they still weren't firming up, so I scooped them into bowls and told Noah we were having warm zucchini pudding for breakfast.
The day is still young, so I'm hoping I can start doing things right and redeem the rest of it.
1 comment:
Some days are just like that. We have the hope of a new beginning tomorrow. These are good life lessons you are sharing with your children and the rest of us..
I hope you were not burned...
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