Busy Day

My head woke up at 8:20 a.m.--VERY early for me. Keeley was up shortly after that. We went downstairs and I poured my first cup of coffee while he watched Peep, Chirp, and Quack. I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he said banana muffins! So I started making banana muffins knowing full well Aiden wouldn't touch them. When I got them in the oven I started a second batch--this time I put in frozen strawberries. Those are Aiden's favorites. When those were ready to go in the oven the banana muffins were ready to come out and that's when Aiden woke up and came downstairs. While the second batch of muffins were baking I started cutting up the curd from the goat's milk cheese I started making last night. I got the whey strained out of the curds and into a cheesecloth to make Feta when the strawberry muffins "dinged". Aiden went right for them! (During the course of the day he ate at least 6 of them.) After the cheese curds were in the cheesecloth and hung to dry I started scooping the pulp out of the butternut squashes I had baked a few days ago. When that was done I scooped the pulp out of the acorn squashes I had baked at the same time as the butternut squashes. I had my hands on the sweet potatoes, but thought I'd better eat something before I passed out. So I cooked myself a bagel and fried egg sandwich, on top of which I put some roasted green peppers. DELISH! After I ate I unloaded and loaded the dishwasher (may have already been the second time today) and I offered the boys some food which they both turned down. MUFFINS! After I loaded the dishwasher I took the curd and mixed the appropriate amount of salt into it and put it in my homemade cheese press (two stacked round cake pans) and got it into the fridge. I then realized it was time to start fixing dinner and all I had was a stewing hen, so I had to stew a hen. Then Uncle Frankie stopped by to say "Hi!" He stayed to visit for about 4 hours. Keeley took a nap while he was here and Aiden stayed and told stories and we all talked. It was nice. Dinner: the meat was pretty tasty, but a little tough (of course) and so everyone ended up eating leftover Chinese food and cereal. I felt like I had stood up and cooked ALL DAY and we had leftovers and cereal for dinner. Oh well. It was a good day anyway. Busy, but good.