Is It Naptime Yet

This weekend was crazy.
Friday (Jon had this day off because it is Nevada Day Observed. The real Nevada day is Halloween):

1.I was behind on my classes and I still am.
2. I took one test, I still have one more to take and a paper to do..both by tomorrow night (Monday).
3. I got my haircut
4. I made a stop off at Costco
5. Picked up Lilah’s costume from my friend Anna who was darling enough to make it.
6. I did lots of dishes and cleaned my sink out. The stank is now finally gone.
7. Baked cupcakes for the trunk or treat ward party.
8. Carved the pumpkin
It seems like I did other things…but it was I probably relaxed.

Saturday:
My morning went pretty well. Just got things together.
1. Got milano bars ready for cupcakes. ( I copied Amber’s from last year…will post picture later.)
1. Sent Lilah and Jon to the store.
2. Gave Eden a bath.
3. Ate lunch and then put Eden down.
4. Made frosting for the cupcakes with Lilah’s help.
5. Frosting dye was old so I added milk to what I wanted to use to dissolve it…this added so much time
6. Finally frosted cupcakes.
7. Took shower and tried to do my hair quickly.
8. Went to wedding reception
9. Came home..Lilah fell asleep so we missed the dinner part of the ward party
10. woke Lilah up for the trunk or treat and got her ready..Jon got Eden ready.
11. Went to the trunk or treat
12. Went to subway to pick up dinner…8:00 pm
13. Relaxed as we watched Harry Potter.

I’d post pictures, but I’m too lazy to go to my purse and get the camera. I only have them of the cupcakes and my haircut anyways because I didn’t take any at the trunk or treat. At least we still have Halloween. It was just crazy. I’m totally exhausted. Last night while we watched the Harry Potter that was on and then some random shows, Jon fell asleep and then woke up during SNL. We talked a little. I told him I was soo tired, like ten time more tired then other times, my eyelids were soo heavy. I won’t go into more of the conversation, but I have been reminded at how tired I can get. We went to bed late, but I got an extra hour of sleep, not because of daylight savings, but because the girls slept into 8 (which at the old time would be 9!! A whole hour later then they normally wake.) I think the big day of going to a wedding and then the trunk or treat exhausted them. Eden only took one morning nap, and Lilah only got an hour long one. Saturday was just exhausting.

Jon gets hankerings for certain types of food. He’ll watch some cooking show or flip through a recipe book and want to try it. Yesterday he decided he wanted to make beef stew.  He looked up a recipe in his “Where’s Mom now that I need her Cookbook.” and put the ingredients down so he could get them while at the store.  Today he decided we should make it. I hadn’t separated the meat yet, and that way we won’t have to thaw it for the first batch, or keep it in the fridge. Se he made his stew. It took about an hour longer to cook and an extra cup and a quarter water. I made biscuits and Jon and I enjoyed his stew. I think it turned out quite well except I like it a little more beefy. This recipe only called for water, no beef broth.

This is what Lilah said about it:
“Stew makes me bad and then I’ll die.”
I think she was just trying to get out of eating dinner. The kicker is she hadn’t even tried the stew yet and came to the conclusion it would make her die. I don’t know what that says about Jon’s cooking.
Really Lilah isn’t a soup or stew fan. She eats tomato soup because we add cheese, and sometimes she eats vegetable, but only if it has the noodles that are letters. Our thing is we give her about half of what we expect and know her to eat…then she can have more or be done. Also of we have a desert she can then have desert if she eats at least one serving of food. This can be bad because she might normally eat more, but because a tasty treat awaits her she only eats the first serving. If it’s something I know she likes, I usually don’t lessen it, and I think I’ll be giving her a little more now that we have a bag full of candy in the cupboard from the trunk or treat.