Oops!

Oops! Time slipped by as Esther, Elijah and I have been so busy doing sleepover stuff! Blogging time came in the midst of baths and bedtime snack...and since then we have had quite a few stories. I just went in and sank down into my chair and suddenly remembered that I hadn't blogged tonight. I got Nathan to use his big slicer to cut up a huge zucchini that Woody had gotten at the local farmers' market. Then I set to work to make our No-Noodle Zucchini Lasagna. It is almost an all day affair. The first thing I did was lightly salt the zucchini slices and let them sit for two hourss to draw water out of them...that took a lot of blotting during those two hours and on until I finally got to layering the lasagna. I made the meat sauce while I waited for the zucchini "noodles." Oh, and I had to get a bag of chopped spinach to thaw and then get most of the water squeezed out of it. Mozarella cheese to shred as well as parmasan cheese and ricotta cheese to beat together with an egg. Finally it was time to assemble the lasagna and pop it into the oven. When we finally got to eat it for supper, I "think" that it was worth all the time and effort! It really is delicious...it is hard to tell that there aren't regular noodles in it...though Elijah thought otherwise and voted for regular noodles the next time. He did eat it as did Esther. We also had carrot spirals made in the spiralizer...they helped make those. We had ice cream for dessert--worth cleaning your plate for! While the lasagna was cooking they had a time to paint. I saw a new way to make a fall tree with paint and a balled up piece of foil...they painted the trunk and then dipped the foil in paint and dabbed on the leaves...then they painted several other pictures. That helped them pass the time till supper. They also had a K'nex building time before the painting time. And, they played outside with a bow and arrow (no point) and a pogo stick. They have been busy. After supper they had about an hour to do what they wanted until it was time for them to take their baths. They drew straws to see who would bathe first...they also drew straws to decide which bedroom/bed they would sleep in. Those straws were good to squelch any arguments! After their baths we had a bedtime snack. Elijah happened to go through the family room when Dr. Oz was talking about snacks today and a peanut butter and banana sandwich was mentioned...that sounded good to both of them so we had that and an apple cut into ribbons on the spiralizer. Then it was story time, prayer time, and tuck into bed and lights out time...that brings us to this moment...and Grammy is ready to head to her chair for a little R&R! Goosey (Woody) is downstairs...probably already asleep! Isaac accompanied Goosey on his walk today. Isaac came back saying that it was a really long walk! But they included Imagination Station playground on their walk...so I imagine that made it a pretty fun walk.