Our days have slowed way down lately. Our home has been struck with illness for five weeks straight. The Lord has been so merciful and taught us many lessons. A big one being:
quarantine!!!
Sarah reminded me that even though people have slept in the same room for many hundreds of years, when someone was sick they also kicked them out! In our case we decide to send daddy to the other room since by that time all the children were ill. He is recovering much quicker!! I would say he is 100% better after only 4 nights away but he still has pain from a potentially broken rib from the extended time of severe coughing. But he is back on his feet! And I believe the children are close on his heels.
So today, we read some books in bed for a little while until mommy decided she could no longer go without breakfast. We had a wonderfully big breakfast of French toast, hash browns, and orange juice. Organic sourdough, free range eggs, raw milk....but those pre made rectangle hash browns MUST has some GMOs in them. But how can I resist when every attempt I have made at home fries, hash browns, potato anything has resulted in an achy hand and breakfast taking well over an hour to prep? Alas...baked rectangle potato mush is the least of my worries :) yum!
Then more resting time, me and Aowyn cuddling on the couch while the big kids build with gears and color pictures at the train table.
How did it get to be lunch time already?? I remembered I baked an acorn squash yesterday and I should make something with it. Maybe a soup! And that's just what I did.
First, I gave the kids the job of separating the slimy seeds from the pulp and putting them on a cookie tray. A constructive "multi-sensory activity". My biggest issue with most Montessori activities are that they tend to make a MESS for the experience...and I get the experience of cleaning it up. Fun. My heart is much more willing to indulge in messes when it's actually necessary! They had fun too!
Although aowyn still got banished to the walker after trying to help too many times :) did I mention she is crawling and pulling up on everything?? We love her! (Just watch your feet, ouch!)
Baked yummies!
Adding the cream to the soup
All finished! It is so good. Marlow really likes it and Drakeford gobbled it up! The neat thing about squash seeds is that the outer shell is so soft the kids can just chew it all. They liked them in their soup. Like a chip!
All this put our nap back to 3! It was a slooooow day. See the sleepy eyes?
Yum!
Aowyn ate three spoonfuls then told me it was nap time. See the thumb?
Yes she is testing some food out! Just for the experience though.
Here is the soup recipe. The thing I REALLY like about this website is that you can type in however many servings you want to adapt it to and it converts the whole recipe for you. Because I only had one acorn squash instead of two I set the serving size from 6 to 3 and it halved the recipe.
http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/229087/roasted-acorn-squash-soup
Enjoy your cozy autumn days!
