Raw Chicken Surprise

So this day has gone far off the path of what I thought it would look like when I woke up this morning. Let's back track, I woke up with an idea of what I thought the day would look like and even though my mornings are scrambled with a 3 year old who desperately wants my attention to watch her play, twirl, eat, talk, sing, you get the point...and an 11 month old who loves to snuggle constantly and pull everything out of every nook and cranny in this house. So my day was going as usual but I decided I wanted to log my day. I wanted to remember some of the fun things I do, especially as I was smelling the wonderful scent of orange 'Jello' play dough I had just made with my kids, happily allowing them to make a mess of the kitchen. I told myself not to sweat it, even though I knew we'd have company later in the evening. So after this blissful moment and some normal craziness to get out the door to go to our story time, I came back home to write what is below.

Today's mission....avoid screen time as much as possible....and try to keep the house manageably clean.

8:00 AM - one PBS show for Lucy (I started the day off with a bang, right?)

8:20 AM - Breakfast: milk, pears, cheerio's, raisins 

8:30 AM - Make 'Jello' Play dough with the kids help

9:30 AM - Kids still playing with play dough (one eating it...) with cookie cutters and rolling pins - YAY

10:00 AM - scrambling to get everyone dressed

10:20 AM - head to Library Story Time

10:35 AM - 5 minutes late for what is actually 'BabyTime', but luckily we had Rhett (11 month old), and Lucy didn't seem to notice all the 1 year olds

11:40 AM - head home to eat lunch 

12:00 PM - lunch : cheese quesadilla's, peppers, berries

12:15 PM - Make healthy "cookie" dough balls (dates, cashews, and chocolate chips)

12:30 PM - attempt nap for both kiddo's

12:45 PM - Rhett down for nap

1:00 PM - attempt to have Lucy play quietly in her room

1:20PM - still attempting quiet time for Lucy

1:30 PM - attempt NAP for Lucy - success!

Today's Activities: 

'Jello' Playdough

Healthy "cookie" dough balls

Library Story Time

Finish Laundry AND Put it all away (Never happened, I'm sitting next to a pile of laundry begging to be folded now...)

My day was already a little comical as we went to Babytime instead of the toddler storytime, but my 3 year old didn't seem to notice or mind. And even after battling naps my day was still going per usual. And then during nap, I decided to get a head start on some beef stew. Earlier we had plans of having a friend over and I don't usually try new recipes but I was pretty excited about this beef stew.

So I'm dunking the stew meat in flour and tossing it before frying it up so it gets that nice brown glaze. I compile this whole stew, I even doubled the recipe so there would be nice leftovers and I notice a chunk of pink "dough" in the flour jar. Weird, but I pull it out and it looks like a piece of play dough from earlier or maybe the slime we made last week. So I continue cooking, at this point I've destroyed my kitchen and have the stew simmering on the stove. After it has filled the entire house with it's scent, I go back to that weird piece of "play dough"....and I realize it is NOT play dough!! It looks to be a piece of meat....raw meat....and not beef. GROSS! After calling my mom, talking to my aunt, and sending pictures of this pink sticky thing we come to the conclusion it must be a piece of chicken. raw chicken. In my big jar of flour. I still feel physically ill as I'm writing this. Needless to say, the entire pot of beef stew was thrown out, the flour jar was dumped and thoroughly washed, and the play dough that was cooked but did indeed have flour in it is sitting on the counter as I contemplate tossing it. And I realize my 11 month old stuck some of that in his mouth earlier in the day....ugh. Hoping and praying that little tiny piece of raw meat didn't contaminate all of the flour and that somehow the play dough is clean. And no one gets sick.

My husband let me know earlier in the day our guests would not be coming for dinner...that would have been quite the story. My mom, aunt, and sister showed up with a roast for me to cook and some moral support, but after everything we ordered pizza. And laughed. And had some great conversation on hospitality.

People, I can't make this stuff up! Life is funny, and I hope to continue to log my journey!