Rachael's Random Ramblings

Rain, rain, and MORE rain!

Last night was another full night of rain! This morning.....rain.

I packed Darin a lunch of a hard boiled egg, sliced cucumber, and a tuna salad sandwich on honey wheat bread (he thought it was chicken!). As he was walking out to the truck with his lunchsack in hand, ready for work, I jokingly hollered "You eat all that, mister.......AND NO TRADING!!" LOL!!

Since it rained most of the day, I put Elyssa and Isabelle to work in the kitchen for a morning fun of baking! They made a batch of pudding first, then made homemade brownies from an old family recipe...yum! After I set out all the bowls, measuring cups, spoons, and ingredients, I completely turned the kitchen over to them. They had SUCH a blast, and although Elyssa was "Master Chef" since she is oldest and was able to do the reading and measuring, she did a great job in giving "apprentice" Isabelle small helpful tasks like pouring in the ingredients and stirring! . It was so much fun to see them working together!

Dusty paid little attention to the girls, he was much to busy playing with his toy cars....and although I'd love to include a picture of him in todays blog, I can't.......because.....well...... he chose to spend the day.....um......naked. Yes....naked. He has his days where I CANNOT keep clothes on the kid!

After the brownies were in the oven, aprons were off and they all went outside to jump on the trampoline in the pouring rain . There was no lightning or thunder anywhere, it was just rain, plain and simple rain, so I felt it safe to let them go. Elyssa and Izzy even put their swimsuits on! LOL!! They were out there for quite awhile, and finally came in sooooaking wet but grinning ear to ear.

After lunch, we tasted the pudding and brownies, and everything was deeeelicious!

Overall we had a fun day, even with the constant rain. They only turned the tv on once and it wasn't on half an hour before they got bored with it and found something else to do. YAY!! I may be winning the tv battle after all!!