May 16, 2006
Turbo Mama Overdrive
Sunday morning Jacob gave me the best Mother's Day present of all and slept until 8.00!! Unbelievable.
Inspired by this and the laminated-sticky-poem-with-toddler-scribble that he had brought home from creche with him on Friday I went into turbo-mama-overdrive and this is what I did. Filled every empty container I could find with potting mix and transplanted the broccoli sprouts that, against all odds, have surfaced from our seedlings, and threw in some bean and spinach seeds for good measure. The boy shall get his greens! All of this was done with Jacob's 'help' so you can imagine the shovel loads of motherly patience and love required.
Satisfied with the outdoorsy component of the day and having offloaded Jacob onto his father who had started one of those vague meaningless digging exercises men undertake when they see a spade, I escaped to the kitchen. There I whipped up two carrot cakes, one with and one without raisins, a large quantity of pumpkin soup, tuna and mushroom pasta sauce, osso bucco and then just to top it off, my first ever loaf of bread.
The freezer is full, the bread digestible if leaden, (have to find a nicer flour to use but at least it rose and the kneading wasn't as bad as I thought it would be), the osso bucco was delicious, the driveway is in a mysterious half-dug state and the broccoli sprouts seemed to have survived the transplanting.
Thank God Mother's Day only comes once a year!
Posted by Faith