Wordless Wednesday

Well

So far today I have:

- 4 baskets of Laundry folded and put away
- cleaned my kitchen, countertops, stovetop and floor
- taken and picked up 2 boys from school
- took one door off it's hinges (boys' room)
- been told that I hate one of my boys
- been screamed at
- had things thrown at me

Yes. I took the boys' door off. I told them yesterday that if they slammed the door one more time their door was going bye-bye. So today, C had a fit about one thing or another (probably having to do his homework, a weekly fight). I told him to go to his room and get a better attitude... off he went, slamming the door on the way in. I immediately went and got my hammer and flat-head screwdriver and WA-LAH! No door!

Then I gave them another doozy. Not only did they lose their door, but I don't want to see the mess in their room. SOOOOOO, they need to clean it up!

C proceeded to throw another fit about that and made an even bigger mess... and lost his nightstand.

Now. Mommy fed them pizza for dinner because she doesn't have the patience to deal with dinner and try to deal with screaming, fit-throwing boys.

Yeah. What a day.

How come...

... when you should eat something, NOTHING looks good and you can't find anything you want to eat. And when you don't need to be eating anything, EVERYTHING looks good and you actually have to stop yourself from eating it all????

ARG.

Scrumptious Saturday

I am SO not one for planning and preparing for meals. Most of you know that.

This last Monday I cleaned out a cupboard that had been bothering me for a while and found a bag of Cornbread Mix that I started one time but then didn't have any sugar. There was one part of the meal. I remembered that I had pork chops in the freezer that I needed to use. So I pulled those out to thaw.

Now I had to figure out what to do with them. I LOVE doing pork chops with cream of mushroom soup, but they don't ever taste as good (or look as good) as my mom's.

So onto Allrecipes.com to see if I could find anything.

That is when I found this - Marinated Baked Pork Chops.

After reading the comments (which I think you should always do when trying out a new recipe), I made more sauce than it called for for 4 chops and added about a tablespoon of minced garlic. They turned out fabulous! I shared them with my parents and even Dad liked them! They were juicy and very flavorful! And the sauce would have been really good on rice; My dad liked it on the cornbread... interesting!

I started something...

It was on purpose, but I am not sure why I did it or what will become of it. I think that I had just had enough of the nastiness that had accumulated between them.

I put both Christian and Jakob in boxing gloves and told them to go at it in the living room. There were a few rules that they both had to follow:

~ Gloves only. No biting, kicking or head butting

(cause we all know that it WOULD go there if it wasn't said!)

~ If you want to stop, say so and the other has to stop.

~ No tackling, stay on your feet.

~ No crotch shots (that wasn't a rule I came up with, that came after one of them got hit there...)

They totally got into it and went for it for about 30 min, with a few breaks inbetween. Isaac even got out my oven mitts and was trying to join in... I wish I had gotten a picture, it was SOOO cute!

By the time dinner was ready, they were hot and red in the face and pretty much all the fight had gone out of them!

I think that I will probably have to use that again in the future. They didn't get into petty little fights for the rest of the night!

Pretty Princess...

Yes, I know that I only have boys. This isn't a post about me either...

This is about Isaac.

Isaac put on Jakob's soccer shirt all by himself (very proudly demonstrating it!) and one of the boys said that he looked like a 'Pretty Princess' with the shirt all the way to the floor! (thanks boys)

And then Isaac decided that he needed more accessories to complete the 'Pretty Princess' look... Yeah. That is Blue's Clues underwear on backwards. OSM.