Get Ground beef started in the frying pan
Take vegetables out of the fridge
Thread a needle
Stir taco meat
Tie a knot
Thread another needle
Cut some tomatoes for salsa
Place onion on cutting board
Tie another knot
Thread another needle
Thread first needle a second time
Help cheese grating helper grate cheese
Stir taco meat again, add cumin, cut up jalapeno pepper
Undo mess of thread, provide assistance to button sewer-on-er
Notice that cheese grating helper "grates" cheese backwards
Add lime and cilantro to salsa
Take scissors away from two-year-old
Stir Salsa, Turn down heat under Taco meat
Check on crying baby
Take needle away from two-year-old
Take over grating cheese for helper who has given up
Send number four to comfort baby so I can cut onion
Get out secret stash of camo fabric for the boys
Get out can of black beans
Open can of black beans
Instruct eldest how to sew and turn his camo "pouch"
Add black beans to brown rice in another frying pan
Notice that baby sleeps, and sigh with gratefulness
Stir beans and rice over low heat
Inspect handiwork of daughter, beam and praise
Notice two-year-old with spool of thread
Thread a needle again
Take spool of thread away from two-year-old
Start sewers on clean-up process
Get out plates
Get out napkins
Ogle and exclaim over second sons finished masterpiece
Remind him to keep after clean-up project
Hear baby start to whimper
Remind sister to keep after clean up project
Turn off heat under rice and beans
Remind eldest to keep after clean-up project
Take glass bowl away from two-year-old
Get tortillas and sour cream out of fridge
Get two-year-old down from table (preservation of other breakables)
Have children pick sewing scraps up off floor
Take picture of glowing children and projects they made
Take another picture
Take more pictures
Inspect clean-up and table setting
Take inventory of dinner (did we get it all?)
Check that all burners are off
Collect hungry baby
Sit down to feed baby and wait for the men
Wonder why back feels tense
Wonder how dinner wasn't burned
Wonder how glass things weren't broken
Wonder when children got old enough to sew a seam
Wonder when children got old enough to set the table
Wonder why it took so long to make dinner
Review process of dinner making... in wonder
Appreciate mom even more
Enjoy the craziness of this fleeting season
Refuse to start thinking about tomorrow nights dinner.
6 comments:
Well since you put it like that I now understand why it takes me an hour to brown the meat. :) Thank you for the reminders that even interruptions are also blessings. :)
Sounds so much like how my dinners go to. It is funny to see it all written out. I have thought about doing it for my whole day just so that I could remind myself that I do get alot done even though sometimes it doesn't seem like I do.
Ohhh... I can't imagine logging my whole day that way... it would make realize how much actually gets done around here.
yes, yes yes. and lately i do it all one armed b/c little 21 month old just wants to be held. and also inserted on my list are the children asking for a piece of this and that while i am cooking...how boring it will be to make dinner in no time at all in a few years. :) cute post.
In a few years someone ELSE will be making dinner and I will be doing more of the needle threading, baby holding, book reading, piece of this and that tasting...
That will be another wonderful season!
After that, (if the Lord tarries) I hope to have my hands full of Grandbabies while I make dinner for my tired daughters and daughters-in-law!
I just said the exact same thing to my husband the other night! So funny, and true...
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