How big is your breadbox?  We don’t have a breadbox, we have a bread freezer!  Spending so much time in Ukraine, Sam has grown accustomed to eating lots, and lots of bread. We blow through a loaf or two a week with just Sam, Vienna and I… it’s crazy!  I’m still adjusting to how expensive bread here is in the states.  I can’t understand why it’s so expensive… I suppose if I got the krummy foam like excuse they make for bread that they sell for .89cents but what’s the point.  Thank goodness I’ve found the Orowheat Outlet store.  Instead of paying $2.50-$3.50 for a loaf of bread I can pick them up for $1.29-$2.09 a loaf… that’s a pretty huge difference!!! 

I just went to the store yesterday after my chiropractor’s appointment (it’s near there so I don’t have to waste a trip).  I picked up  17 loaves of bread, two hoagy roll packages and package of hamburger buns that I got for free, should last us a good… oh… two months?  Ok, I’m sure it will last longer, but it feels like we blow through it that fast, and I think it’s close.  But I can pick up all that for $25, plus I get free tickets for Entamines dessert things, like cheese danish loaf, pound cake and the like… so that’s not too shabby.  Though I think most people thought I was trying to feed a family of 12 or something!

Anyway… just thought I’d share… I’m avoiding house work today

Tip of the day number 2 in regards to coffee: When your daughter over turns the garbage can, and fresh wet coffee grounds fall to the floor…DON”T VACUUM it!

In an effort to keep little miss quick hands out of the spilled coffee grounds I grabbed my little Shark Vac, you know those little electric sweepers that look like what we used to call a Hokey? Yeah… well, it vac’ed up real nice real quick… Since I was in a hurry I just set the Shark aside and went back to cleaning the rest of the kitchen (well, after creating a coral in the living room for Vienna!) Then I grabbed the Shark to put it away… humm… some grounds are on the floor, maybe I’ll sweep them up…

The whirl wind of coffee grounds that followed was a site to see. It went everywhere!! Apparently, since the coffee grounds were still damp, what really happened was that some got into the vac container, but most of it settled and stuck in the corners of the brush housing… so when I turned it on again coffee grounds spit out back all over my feet, onto the carpet, all over the kitchen. For now, the Shark sits outside on the porch until I can muster up the energy to clean it out. Maybe it’ll dry out the grounds and be easier to clean… so… lesson learned

DON’T spill coffee grounds into your dishwasher!!!  Having had so much family in town, and being utterly exhausted, I’ve had a few snaffoo’s this week. The worst of which being the coffee mishap!

We had guests over Sunday night… we decided to make some decaf, but our grider already had ground regular coffee in it, so I put the regular in a cup and set it aside. Next day I, being in a lack of sleep trance, started loading the dishwasher as I waited for my coffee to brew… (Mistake #1, NEVER do anything before coffee!!!)

As I flipped to cup over onto the top rack of my dishwasher about 4 Tbls of fresh
coffee grounds flipped onto the door and into the washer well… IF THIS HAPPENS,
let me tell you now, vacuum it out if you must! I, still being in my coffee
free stupor decided “ehh, it’s just like schmutz left on the plates, it’ll wash
down the drain”… I am now running my 4^th round of the dishwasher (two empty) trying to rid my washer of grounds ***rolling eyes*** I hope this time it works, I did use the vegetable sprayer from the sink to get a bunch of it off the dishes and down into the well this last round, but it has clogged up the center sprayer thing that extends to
clean the top rack, and that is now catching and staying partly up… hopefully this round will work!

Just a little tip of the day, frommy malfunctioning home, to yours (not that any of you will be doing anything like this!)

It’s probably an incredibly good thing that Sam makes the coffee in the morning for this family or more stuff like this would happen!!!

If I can get over it, I might later write about the laundry….***rolling eyes***

If you’re looking for a little laugh to get your day going, check out this video we were shown at church yesterday:

http://www.sermonspice.com/videos/722/evangelism-linebacker-no-excuses/

(It was kind of nice to be able to watch this without the copyright symbol, but of course you can do that too for $18.) =)

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