Wordless Wednesdays: A full basket

Life with sick kids means the laundry is never ever done.

The baby has puked on us at least once a day for the past few days. The dirty clothes, the soiled onesies, the sleeves sticky with food, they pile up faster than our very small washing machine can spit out. Then they lie draped about on various pieces of furniture in stages of drying (we have no dryer and the temperature outdoors is below 20 degrees).

As I was getting frazzled and frustrated, I read this:

"In her insistence upon getting things done, on living an ordered life, my mother managed to miss out on the nourishing aspects of family life and life in general: laughing at silly things, lying spooned on the couch with your beloveds, sharing good food, the tactile delight of giggling children crawling all over you. Without this, family life is an endless series of menial tasks: counters and noses to wipe, dishes and bodies to wash, whites and colors to fold, again and again in soul-sucking succession."

- Anne Marie Feld (from this article, via Evelyn)

Priorities indeed. And then I am thankful I have a full basket. Laundry-generating, mess-creating bodies no less, but still, two little boys to love.

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Capsicum Cake

Today didn't start off too good.  Leaky nose and cough, plus a headache to boot.  Grouchy baby who woke up early.  3 year old who has been holding poop in, resulting in soiled pants and lots of washing to do while baby wailed at being left alone.

By 10.30 am I was starting to feel light-headed, so I grabbed the nearest thing (potato chips) and started eating.  And then went off to feed baby.  The boy, seeing me stuff my face, asked me "are you hungry, mama?".  And then he trotted off to his play kitchen, and came back with this:

"Because you didn't eat enough potato chips, you have to eat capsicum cake", he declared, and proceeded to feed me the pieces.  The baby tried to grab a mouthful too, but got pushed away by the big boy with a "no, baby J, you can only eat this when you are bigger, ok?".

And here are the steps to make the cake, as described by Junior J:
1. Take a piece of bread and put a burger bun on it.
2. Put another bread on it.
3. Put capsicum on top.
4. Bake it in the oven.
5. Eat it, its very yummy!

And that's his recipe for capsicum cake.  To me, that's a recipe for making mama smile!