Why are my kids down for a second nap?

It's been a couple days since I blogged and well this blog is supposed to be about the amusing happenings of me and my kids. Well, here goes another episode.

Normally, I don't make Skylar and Autumn (2 and 1) take a second but today they are. I was so angry with them that getting away from them was the only thing I could do. And now that Im away from the situation it was quite comical.

So Im getting ready for work and the kids start crying, so I take them with me to the sitters house (same duplex, just seperate apartments). Anyway, she isn't home. I tried texting her, but couldn't get an answer, so I called in sick. Well, she finally calls me and lo and behold I had wrote my schedule down wrong. Such is life. So now I have this whole day off to just play with my kids! Wonderful! Except the afternoon stsarted off with this little episode:

Im in the kitchen making Skylar and Autumn a sippy cup when Autumn comes walking up to me with a huge potato in her hand. I take it away and finish making the cups. Here she comes to get her cup, with TWO more potatos in her hand. Again, I take those away and give them a sippy. I get a call in the meantime and turn my back for just seconds. Next thing I know I hear plop plop plop. My precious sweet one year old daughter has all of the potatoes out of the bag and is taking off with 2 of them so I put the phone down and chase after her. In the meantime, unbeknownst to me, my two year old has my optical mouse and is carrying it around precariously close to the downstairs toilet. While Im chasing the giggling potato queen, I hear a splash. And this time it's more than just precariously close to the toilet: MY DARLING SON THREW MY OPTICAL MOUSE IN THE TOILET. Fortunately the toilet was clean and the mouse still works, but that was just incredibly wrong. I finally get him out of the bathroom and that door shut only to discover the both of them are playing basketball with the potatoes and my trash can. At this point, I was so fed up, I just put them to bed.

Now I feel bad. It was kind of funny and I shouldn't have gotten that angry over something so silly, but unfortunately they are sleeping and I refuse to wake them up. Let's just say the pool might be opened a little later this evening. Nothing wrong with being tough, but sometimes being tough goes a little too far. Raising kids is hectic, but you know you're in love when a whole bag of potatos gets ruined and you end up feeling worse about punishing the kids than you do about the 5 dollars your out from the potatoes.

Enjoy the hectic moments, sometimes they are best learning experiences.

How NOT to make potato candy

So I was just sitting at home today, both of the kids asleep, so I started stumbling through websites (www.stumbleupon.com). I came across this recipe for potato candy and decided to try it. Of course I get up to see if I have all the ingredients, and of course I don't. So I dash off to the grocery store for confectioner's sugar and peanut butter. I get back home and boil the potatoes. The recipe calls for one small potato but that doesn't sound right to me so instead I use two LARGE potatoes. I boil those without any problems and then mash them and wait for them to cool. Great, no trouble there. Except I am very impatient. So I put the mashed potatoes in the fridge for quicker cooling. Waited for another 15 and then my impatience got the best of me. I grabe the potatoes out of the fridge (warm but still not hot, so yeah they MUST be fine to work with). I place them on the cutting board and then pour the vanilla over them. Great. Then I pour the sugar on (2lbs instead of the 1lb that is called for....since I had already increased the size of the potatoes. Then, using all my intelligence God gave me, I started mixing the stuff with my bare hands. (Just what the heck was I thinking?) ....and Guess what else? As I was mixing this tasty, sweet, sticky mixture I realized the potatoes weren't quite as cool as I thought and the mixture began running everywhere!!! All over my stove, floor....everywhere!!! So I stop there and clean up right? WRONG!!! I just add some flour to the mixture to thicken it up and move to my kitchen table where I proceed to roll out the liquid dough and spread peanut butter on it. At this point, for you cooks, you know you are supposed to be able to cut the dough and then roll the dough up with the peanut butter inside. WRONG!!! It was still too thin, so I just made potato candy balls. Ugh, such is life. But at least they taste good!

Do NOT follow the above directions when making potato candy, if you really want to make potato candy, follow these directions instead. And please, do feel free to post your better experience!