Baking to Exhaustion

Well today was an interesting day to say the least.  The so called "storm" was nothing but humidity and rain, followed by more rain! However today, for the first time, I actually helped my mother make pork pies! Now come tomorrow morning my children and I are going to be having eggs and pork pie for breakfast.  Pork pies in my family mean it is almost holiday time and that means it is almost pumpkin picking time and carving time and yummy baking time etc etc! The only real problem we had making them was my own klutzy-ness.  See as I was pulling the last one out (they were in flimsy cheap foil pans by the way) I sort of dropped about half of the pie back into the oven because the pan decided while I was holding it, to fold in half!  I was a little upset at that point!

See I wouldn't have been quite as dramatic had I not been having a bit of a tiring day to begin with.  I was so worried about getting Andy to school on time that I was awake every hour on the hour checking the time, therefore not enough sleep at all.

Then I had a very cranky Mckenzee who was not overly fond of the whole up and out of the house early concept!  Once I got some yummy yogurt in her she was a little better and my mom and I were able to get a good amount of the pies done while Andy was in school.  But then since the whole of CT thought the storm was gonna be so bad, we had to go pick him up early and that put a stop to some of our baking for a bit.  Then we picked up Andy and some more crusts and came back to whip out five more pies and some yummy festival rolls!  They came out awesome!  Then once the kids were together they spent the better part of the night getting on each other's nerves!  Even five minutes they had to be pulled apart and told to knock it off!  Ugh!

Needless to say I was stoked when bedtime came, so after having a yummy Shepard's pie dinner *Andy's Fave* and some chocolate pudding!  The kids watched Astroboy with DJ and then when Mckenzee started to fall asleep she was put to bed with her little lamb and was almost out cold by the time I left her bedroom!  Andy made it all the way through the movie then was given hugs and kisses, tucked in and looked like HE was going to pass out quick as well!

So now they are all asleep in their beds, I am ready to pass out here at the keyboard but I felt the need to update a little at least since it has been a few days and today was a weird one!  I am going to tell you more tomorrow when I have recovered a little from today!

Thank you all my faithfuls!