Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I was going to make an effort to finish a book today, friends, but instead, my fantastic neighbor called to say she was heading to the dump, and did we have anything to add to her load? So she and I loaded up the old bunk bed plus a bunch of trimmed branches from the pine tree, at which point I had to switch laundry and head to Costco. After Costco I could have read over lunch, only my 16-year-old missed her bus and so I picked her up and then had to head out to pick up my youngest, so I pretty much ate in the car (and, just a little bit, standing up in my kitchen). Once we got home I worked on dinner, went on my walk, and then finished making dinner and did dishes. And THEN I took my youngest to dance, dropped off a due library book, and did my Duolingo in the car outside the dance teacher’s house. Good times! When I got home I had clean sheets to put on my bed and the youngest to tuck in, and–you get the idea.

On the other hand, I’ve been trying use up some oatmeal (I ended up with extra), and since we’d already had oatmeal pancakes, I made this Brownie Baked Oatmeal for dinner last night. I didn’t make it vegan, because we’re not vegan and I wanted to use up actual milk anyway, but other than that I sort of followed the recipe. (By sort of I mean I left out the pecans, because I prefer my oldest alive, and I didn’t add coconut, because my youngest would have flat out revolted. Oh, and I made do with regular yogurt, because we didn’t have Greek.) It would have been great with coconut, but oh, well. As it was, it made for a pretty chocolatey dinner that was much healthier than you might have thought; if you want to feed your family oatmeal and some of them are picky about it, it’s worth making.

And now the exercise bike and then the shower are calling my name. Goodnight all!