a few brags

Today...HAILEY STARTED WALKING!!!!

She has been taking a couple of steps here and there, but now she will stand up and walk at least 10 steps before falling over and she is picking things up and walking too.  I tried to video tape it, but every time I got my phone out she stopped doing it, ha!  Anyway, I can't believe she is turning one in just over a week.  That is so insane.

1. I went up to the church at 9am to make pies.  I worked from 9am - 12:30pm.  I don't know how many pies I rolled and finished, but it was a lot.  I remembered today how much I enjoy baking a lot of stuff though.  Especially when I'm not making my own kitchen all messy.  Anyway, they are for the annual strawberry fest fundraiser the church holds.  The kids were great.  Hailey sat in her carseat for an hour (craaazy) and didn't complain.  Then I put her down for a nap and she slept for another hour.  Then she sat in a high chair playing with a spoon for another hour.  Then I had to train the treasurer on all of the new bookkeeping procedure.  This went MUCH better than I anticipated, and thankfully, she now has a very different attitude because she realized how much less work she has to do now with the new system! YAY!  I am happy about that.

2. I came home to feed the kids lunch finally a little after 1pm.  Hailey went down for a nap.  I let Shea watch a veggietales movie.  I worked on preschool prep stuff.  I now have a brochure and registration forms finished, so I sent them off to my one prospective student and once I get my open house date I can go advertise!  Right now, I have been planning my ideas for the bulletin boards so I can finish up with that, and then I need to dig deep into planning.

3.  I made a pot pie for dinner.  I made a quick pie whole wheat flour pie crust, thickened up some vegetable broth with flour/cornstarch and then I poured it over a bowl full of fresh chopped veggies - sweet potatoes, corn, peas, spinach, and carrots.  It was stuffed with vegetables.  The only problem was that there wasn't quite enough broth, so it didn't get quite as pot-pieish as I would like.  It was my first attempt.  Next time I'm going to do only a bottom crust, cook the veggies a little bit more in the thickened broth (with more broth) and then top it with mashed potatoes which get brown (more like a shepherds pie).  And probably add some lentils to up the protein content.

4. I got the kiddos in bed (Jeremy had to go up to the church to work). I worked out for about 30 minutes, then after a shower, played fetch with Kaia for a while.  The past hour I have spent catching up on a few boring errands on the internet while kind of planning preschool stuff and running loads of laundry through.  But now I need to go get some beans soaking and do the dishes (been putting that off all day).

Tomorrow my friend Sondra is coming over with her two kids in the morning, so I should probably clean up the rest of the house a little too.  Things are taking a long time to find a home here, for some reason!  I think because the weather has been nice lately and I just don't feel much like housework these days.

And that is my brag!