It's an "I don't want to make dinner night", so now what?

The other night Mark asked for Senfeier, a German dish which is basically boiled eggs with a mustard sauce over potatoes. We had them over egg noodles last time. It is actually quite delicious but I was totally surprised when Mark not only liked them the first time I made them for him, but has repeatedly asked for them. It is a great quick and filling meal, especially when served with speedy mashed potatoes.

Our other quick and easy is SPAM sandwiches. I know, but we love them. As my mom so rightly said to niece Liffy's wrinkled nose, "honey, the green things are the least of your worries".

I wonder what YOU all eat (besides mac n cheese or fried ramen) when it is that kind of night. At our house we often end up with stupid dinners when I feel like that and we all end up going to bed still hungry.

So here is the request: inexpensive, quick, kid-friendly, and put-in-lunchable. With or without recipe link.

This post is for me so that I can wish for these days again..

Happy Easter baby!

He already has the dreamy look. What a hunk.

The two cutest boys in the world! Happy Easter!

For the sweetest boys in the world! I love you kids!

This post is for me so I can remember that it is OK for my kids to grow older and out of this...

I was looking at a friend's blog and this girl blogs every day even though she has two kids, and she sews and gardens and economizes and has church callings. She is busy girl. How does one get so much done? Upon reading Nichole's last blog, I think I am beginning to understand how she manages to do it...well if one starts by blogging at 6:00 in the morning and sewing until 1:30 at night... there is WAAAAY more time in the day! Nichole, you're great, and I love the skirt you just made. So if I were to operate my day by beginning activity at 6:00 am and at times not stopping until after midnight... my dear, it looks like I am missing 9 hours of my day by not doing it that way!

But alas, at my house it is sooo bedtime for me at 10:30 or I get a little bit nutso. I think my late nights and die-till-dawn days are over. Typically I don't leave the bedroom cabin until all the boys wake up, often not till 8:00, even though Odin is getting really good at not becoming distressed when he wakes up and I am not there. Because sometimes the bathroom or a bowl of cereal calls way too loudly to ignore. But if you have never been a fly on the wall at our place, maybe your life is not yet complete . And maybe you might see why I stay quietly in bed as long as I can in the morning.

These boys can be a COMPLETE (is disaster too big a word?) when they are hungry and freshly awake and just had to be moved from a warm bedroom cabin to a cold kitchen cabin when they didn't really want to move in the first place and I just literally forced them to "MOVE"! because remember that bathroom and bowl of cereal? Right.

So now I am really tempted to describe a fly on the wall scenario but since you are all aware of the fact that we have a nearly four year old, a nearly two year old, an infant, a tired and frazzled mom, live in separated housing, have frequent snow storms in winter-which don't seem to want to quit, despite the fact that it is spring!- that it may not be neccessary to describe it at all. I think imagination does the trick just fine.

As much fun as this cabin life is, it is time to be done. Consider just the time lost in tromping back and forth from cabin to cabin with at least two kids in tow every stinkin time! That is like already an hour or more of my day! Now add in not having to reconcile the kids to each other and the new room every single time. That is just the beginning. Not an hour goes by where I don't dream of blissful single unit housing.

So this is really an I-can't-wait-until-our-little-house-is-done post. Way to go Mark for working so hard on our house. We are getting really close to putting on the siding and roofing material. For those keeping track of our progress, he has put in the beams for our bedroom's vaulted ceiling. Hooray!