Girls On The Gridiron

So yeah. In my cabinet of life skills, the shelf for cooking sits empty, dusty and looks pretty forlorn. I stink at cooking. Which is ironic, because I love to eat. So you think at some point, I would have done the math and realized that cooked food = food I get to eat.

Somehow I’ve muddled through the decades without this skill. It helps that I married a guy who cooks. (I swear, that had nothing to do with my decision.) But now, I have this high energy toddler who devours his food. So as a mom, I have to learn to cook. I can’t just feed the kid pizza every day. (Though really, I think that’d be kinda yummy)

Today, I noticed we had fresh pineapple. I spotted the mutligrain pancake mix, and was inspired. Pineapple pancakes!

I should have realized I was in trouble when I had to look at the instructions to figure out how to put together batter. I know most 8 year olds can probably make pancakes.

Undeterred, I grabbed the measuring cup. In a fit of genius, I even poured the ingredients back into the cup to measure out consistent portions in order to form a nation of perfectly symmetrical pancakes. (Okay, the instructions told me to use 1/4 cup, but I figured out to pour the batter back in all by myself)

Alas, I quickly discovered that a measuring cup doth not a pancake make. Inexplicably, as I poured the batter in, it just kept spreading out all over the pan. I guess I thought hundreds of years of pancake history would peer pressure the pancake into a perfectly symmetrical form. Instead, I stood over the pan, chasing the expanding square with my spatula to try to shape it into some semblance of a sphere.

Also, did you know you can burn pineapple? I didn’t. But you can. Trust me on this.

So, what did I learn today?
1. Pancakes don’t automatically come out round
2. If you want to make them round, pour a little bit of the batter into the pan at first. Then, slowly add more batter once you have an edge and can force your pancakes into shape.
And most importantly:
3. If you stick enough syrup on it, your kid will eat it anyway.

So, that was today’s adventure. Once I stay home, I hope to post more often. I’m going to fess up to the trials and tribulations of this whole stay at home mom thing. Hopefully, you’ll find it as interesting and entertaining, as I will.

Well, life has changed since the last post. I had a dear, bouncing baby boy who has changed my whole life. He is a happy, healthy kid since birth, which makes me one lucky mom.

What followed was a year of “woah, I’m a parent,” to “who knew a kid could walk this early,” to “Quick, tape rubber on all the sharp edges of everything in the house!” Now, we’re in the midst of toddler hood and my high energy son is keeping us busy.

I went back to work, and will now be leaving after almost a year of daily commute away from our little guy. I didn’t like returning and it took us a year to get all our financial ducks in a row. Oh yea, there was also a bit of an economic collapse, recession and collapse of half our net worth to recover.

But I’ve officially resigned and am looking forward to my new life as a stay at home, effective in May. It should be an interesting adventure and probably similar to playing on a gridiron. Who knew this would one day become a mommy blog?

Sad to admit this, but with such a savvy sys admin/networking genius as a husband, I don’t know how to format this blog, since he does it for me.

Yes, my technical greatness has faded these past 7 years, but that’s what I get for being lazy.=)

So after a conversation with a good friend of mine, I linked to my twitter feed. Though whether or not I say anything interesting, I’m not too sure of.

So until the hubby gets the time, the Twitter feed is just a link on this overcrowded sidebar. But it’s there if you want it.=)

With three days left to go, these are the longest days ever. Even then, it will be another 7 days and then they’ll induce if my little one isn’t in a week from Wednesday.

So other then waiting and waiting and waiting, now every twinge and symptom makes me wonder if this is it or not. It’s a tiring process. =) So far, today seems like it might be the day, but things haven’t progressed or changed since the symptoms which started at 4 AM. So we’ll see.

It just feels like it’s taking forever. The whole month has been like this, knowing my little guy could come at any moment. But it seems like he’s sticking it out to the end. So hopefully, we’ll get to meet him soon.

Plast go out today and excercise your right to vote. Make your voice heard.

And if you’re voting for Obama, that’s even better:)