blue plate special

So today the recipe for the melting pot went a little something like this...

*breathes deep*

Coffee brews around 6:15am... send text to supervisor to insure appropriate payment for part time job. Find out later supervisor uses cell phone as alarm clock and was awoken by said text... mental cringe.

Anyway, coffee: check. Baby awoke screaming an hour prior to the coffee brewing, so there was an hour or so to fade in and out of the news and cuddle with the dogs before the elder children tumbled out of their rooms...

Kix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Instant Breakfast, blueberries, strawberries and baby cereal mixed with yogurt... kitchen cleanup #1. Check. Phone calls to potential customers made from the sanctity of my 10 year old Honda, a.k.a. "office". Check.

Invite from friends to lunch at the best taco joint in town... ummm... YES PLEASE. But first... meatball making with the girls... Pork, Beef, roasted garlic, chives, parmesan, and little hands to do the mushing and rolling... perfect. I'm not advocating child labor, but they do make perfect meatballs. That, and cooking with the children is literally one of my favorite things on earth to do.... Lunch for children, and kitchen cleanup #2... check.

Shower prior to lunch with friends, sadly no... meatballs took longer than expected... teeth, blush, and new lipgloss almost make it look like I did though... Check.

Put baby down, and beg children to get dressed and go outside PUH-lease! It's 75 degrees! Check.

Then organizing weekend last minute charity fundraiser, about a dozen Capri Suns, deli sandwiches, work, and soccer practices later, there's baths, showers, a movie with the older ones... check.

And finally, a bottle of Turn Me Red, snuggle time with the man...whom, by the way, this day would not have been possible without... and at long last, a shower...

And it's only 12:15am the next day...

A long recipe? Yup. A happy family? Yup. Doin it all again in 6 more hours? You can bet on it.