wish list

1. to wake at a decent hour without someone else's finger up my nose, in my ear or mouth, or eye
2. to finish my workout without having to pause and nurse or cuddle someone back to sleep
3. for someone else to cook a weeknight dinner and do the dishes.

i'm really easy to please. my sweet boys are finally asleep. we tried visiting the Bus' again today but had to leave early again after only two hours or so. h didn't nap again, i didn't feel like carrying him around, and my mom wasn't feeling well. um no thanks. so, we came home and ate more leftovers that didn't fill me up. i poured through my cookbooks and got three vegan recipes-one i'm adding turkey to-sorry kt :-) and two slow-cooker things that sound delicious. i'm pleased to report that the only ingredients i don't have on hand are the fresh produce and ground turkey... oh, and a random spice that i'll probably never use again. i'm slowly getting a pantry stash of foods together so my grocery bills are going down. the trouble is, my kitchen storage situation is pretty sad so i had jj put up shelving in the basement for things like bagged sweet potatos and pasta. it's official: i am turning into my mother. i just want to expose my kids to foods other than grilled chicken, veggies and mac n cheese. gus thinks couscous is an animal that honks...
tonight i was folding a load of my laundry and gus took a pair of my underpants out and put them on. he thought he was soooo cool. i wish he'd think the same thing about his underpants. maybe i should wear thomas the train underpants so he'd try to be like me.