Ian went off to do errands after he helped put all the groceries away. We also had lunch together.
While he was gone, this was what I got done:
1 loaf
of bread, baked4 loads of laundry, sorted, washed, dried, folded
2 lasagnas (with real noodles, not bake-only noodles), compiled, frozen, put away
1 carrot cake made from scratch (it's a layer cake, so I also made homemade cream cheese icing), baked, assembled, iced
1 pot of baked potato soup*, assembled, simmered, partially eatenabout 30 koteletes (yummy panfried meatloaf patties), mixed, formed, fried, drained, frozen
12-13 sinkloads of dishes, washed, dried, put away
When Ian came home, he ironed and helped with the dishes.
So now my freezer is fuller. Yay!
And I calculated that it was an 8-hour workday, but working for your family is immensely more satisfying than working for someone else.
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*Click here for the recipe for that soup! It was awesome, delicious, truly pleasurable.
2 comments:
I love preparing meals for my freezer when I have time so that I can pull them out when we are busy! I can't believe that you had that many dishes to do!!!! We used to save up our dishes and do them only once or twice a week-this was when we were both working and did not have kids. Every dish in your house must have been dirty.
I used some of them more than once...like the kettle for simmering spaghetti sauce and then again for the soup.
And since the Big Cooking Weekend, I have done a sinkful of dishes every day, even if that doesn't get rid of the pile. That way the pile stays small and there's no dish drying, which I loathe.
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