Last week's Laundry Challenge!

Don't tell me you're not checking in here every 15 minutes to find out how last week's lame Laundry Mountain Challenge (or whatever I called it) turned out.

Well, not bad... not bad... and this evening, while I was losing it upstairs, I went down and took out my rage on the laundry room floor-crud. Here's the result!

Oh... did I mention I was losing it upstairs? The pancake thing just was NOT happening for me... no idea why because it was an easy enough supper. But Naomi woke up early from her nap, and the baby did too, and I was just not ready to face them, so when Ted arrived home (early, yay!), I said he had to take them both (ok, ALL) off my hands so I wouldn't kill anybody. Haven't done THAT in a while...

Big kids were thoroughly bratty getting ready for bed... YM was cleaning the bathroom when EC wanted to use it, and probably vice versa. Anyway, they started bickering so I sent them both to sit on the down stairs for 5 minutes. It took them probably 10 minutes to settle down and quit poking each other so they could start their 5 minutes. We have to take a strong no-bicker stance or it so quickly overruns the entire house... :-(((

So here's tonight's revised supper!

Ted made pancakes: Whole wheat, plain Bisquik, butterscotch chip Bisquik, blueberry Bisquik

Mushroom soup from a tin

Ugh. Does that even count as a supper? I'm hungry already...

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