Battle Hymns of a Hot Mess Mom

It’s 1:09am – I’m still waiting for the pull of sleep, it hasn’t quite happened yet. My body hurts, I did quite a bit today. I made a one and done Honey Crockpot Chicken…it did not turn out well. The chicken was dry and while the flavor was there it was NOT a home run by any account. S didn’t eat the chicken, L just lied and said how great it was and J literally choked on it. The roasted carrots were…different, I think I have to learn to roast veggies, it felt like it was just swimming in brown butter and not really being “roasted”. The no-knead bread was a fail. I know better than to get suckered into no-knead bread, but IG gets me all the time. I was to start a sour dough starter…maybe after the kids spring break. I’ll take a crack at it. Right now the commitment of feeding it daily seems overwhelming.

Tomorrow will be leftover day since the plan is to celebrate my nieces’ 18th birthday. Left over meatloaf, corn casserole and I think I found some steak that I can make into quesadillas or a burrito of some kind? I can finish off my pasta salad I made and maybe open up the kale salad. Either way it’ll be a fast meal. Going to see Dr. P tomorrow….I premade appointments to get type and screen along with a transfusion in case I need blood. I don’t know if I can hold on to a hemoglobin of 8.4 for another two weeks…I have already fallen by 2 since I received it last week. MyChart still hasn’t updated, so I have no idea what today’s hemoglobin is but I am starting to get tired and dizzy. I’ll find out tomorrow at COH and make adjustments if I need type and screen today and blood Thursday. I certainly don’t want to go for a birthday celebration and find that that I’m a zombie and can only lay in bed all day.

J ran around all day with errands, returning Amazon, picking up my meds…taking L to the orthodontist because he broke his retainer. Thankfully the doctor was able to “mend” it and it ended up not costing us anything! Whew!

Last thing J has to do tomorrow is take my to the bank, I have literally $5 cash on me…Boba for the kids is costing me a grip. I feel like they need to cut down on that habit, ASAP!

I organized the pantry this evening – I was very proud. You can actually see stuff. I realized that I buy entirely WAY too much tea and coffee, though I am low on powder espresso to make my brownies along with cocoa powder. I also need to add powdered buttermilk into the baking arsenal…I didn’t know it was a thing, but it’s a thing. Refilled flour and sugar…and most importantly threw out food that expired in 2018.