June Cleaver...Almost

Yesterday I had visions of a clean house, a wonderful looking and smelling dinner cooking on the stove , children playing sweetly besides each other all as my sweet husband came walking in the door. You know the kind of vision June Cleaver is usually involved in, something I thought my husband might appreciate. Not that he wants to be married to June Cleaver but coming home to peace, love and happiness would probably be nice every once in a while.

As the day wore on I did start to feel better flu-like symptoms slowly dissipating, so at the suggestion of my sweet husband :) I decided to start get moving. I started preparations for a recipe I had found on the Internet, something that sounded quite yummy- Turkey Croquette and Mushroom Cream Sauce. Everything started out pretty good the meat was mixed and chilling but then...the kids woke up. This actually wasn't really all that bad especially since John had called to tell me he was getting off early. Things were looking good, we all went to visit the goats and then I ducked out early to start cooking...things just kind of didn't work out as I had thought. I am not a gourmet cook. I try and I try, but it just never works out for me. I'm good with Macaroni & Cheese, Pizza, Chinese Haystacks, and an occassional enchilida but really I'm in the Blue Collar cooking category. Desserts...well that's another story for another day.

As I was trying to put a pound of ground turkey meat (trying to be healthier) into little Tbs size balls, I asked myself what is a croquette anyway? 10 min later I decided to scrap the meatballs and try browning the meat , like Hamburger because meatballs are NOT supposed to be mushy even after being cooked. I thought it would ultimately be some kind of stroganoff, which I think it was supposed to be. Sweet, sweet John could tell I was a lil frustrated (I even toyed with the idea of just throwing the meat away) and so he took the girls to the library to give me some time to get dinner done. Maybe it was my lack of appetite from being sick still lingering but honestly after finishing the recipe well I thought it was pretty gross... John said the meat was good, the sauce was so/so and that recipe went quickly into the trash. I think I'll be sticking with my Deliciously Deceptive Recipes. A lil odd, but most of which are pretty good.

Side note of the kids...I've been trying to limit the amount of movies and tv that is being watched, mostly because I've noticed more tv, more bad behavior and it's the only motivation I can find sometimes. McKenna got tired around 11:30 and started begging for a movie, which I told her not until after naps. So she asked for her nap, I thought Great! So by noon she was asleep...and by 1 she was awake after her nice power nap...arrr. Note to self... and so by 7 pm we had to whiney and very tired kids so we decided McKenna would be going to bed with Tyler. It was only a half hour early but holy cow, that half hour made such a difference. I had both my kids in bed by 8, my kitchen cleaned and a lil more organized by 9 and I even got started on my next project that is due by Friday. Wow, I felt like a new woman...or maybe it was the flu was finally gone. Either way it was a fabulous way to end the night!