May 11 - kitchen

 

I took several photos around my kitchen. 

1. The whole kitchen (in it's glorious messy daily splendor) and then I was going to post a second photo of the clean kitchen that I prefer. 

2. I took a photo of my coffee maker. It's my second lover. I'm not sure I'm saving money by making my own coffee. I use 2 pods to make my espresso and drink 3 cups a day. Plus I find myself stopping at Starbucks for my daily mocha still.

3. I took a photo of my microwave. It's been broken for 3 years. And I don't miss it at all. Strange, right? We rarely eat leftovers and what I have can easily be heated on the stove.

4. Finally, I decided on a photo I took of dinner. With our hectic schedule sometimes I have to lay dinner out for my husband to make for 3 kids while I take the 4th kid to baseball. This particular night, the kids get off the bus at 3:30 and Mister C needed to be at baseball at 4pm followed by Miss M being at soccer at 7pm. I was able to have Marc make dinner for the 3 and then take Miss M to soccer and then Mister C and I ate when we got home at 7:30pm.

It was delicious. Beef stir fly with Black Bean Paste, baby corn, water chestnuts all over rice. The corn was put away for another night. I'm so happy that we have worked out a system to keep everyone eating at home despite the crazy sports and homework nights.

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 Friday night was the end of a very busy week. I just finished volunteering at school for the past 2 days for the schools Science Fair. I came home Friday afternoon and managed to make up a gourmet meal in 15 minutes before we heading back to the school for the Science Awards. I made angel hair pasta with mizithra cheese (love that cheese) and a side of brussel sprouts with prosciutto and heavy whipping cream. If you don't like brussels sprouts, you should try these. They are so delicious and easy.

On a side (non picture) note, my kids did great at the science fair. You've seen the pictures about Antibubbles, Mr. C took home the silver medal (2nd place) in the primary level Physics category. He is very excited. We haven't decided if we will go to the state science fair yet. Miss M also received 2nd place for her Coral Reef study, but didn't score enough points for the medal. Her project topic was too complex and her judges comments said to make it more simple next year. She's pretty upset, but doing a great job understaning. We are already thinking about projects ideas for next year and whether Miss R will be entering the science fair as a kindergartener.