Too many things to keep track of....

Well, this past weekend we were able to get some rest. I say some, cuz the rest was only on Saturday. The weather was beautiful and the boys got to play outside for a couple hours....which they needed desperately! Well, and I needed for them to do it too! :)

Sunday was spent shopping and getting restocked on some items we were out of. Meat was one of them. Hamburger to be specific. And since we have our sealer machine, we just planned on letting them freeze like we normally do, then after church that evening we would vacuum seal it all. Well, it didn't turn out that way. First, Terry had some computer work that needed to be done and he had put it off all weekend. So while he was doing his computer work, I started 'making bags' with the sealer. When he got in there and cut the meat (mind you, these rolls of hamburger are 10 lb logs...and we have 8 of them), we started to seal it and it wouldn't seal. It never drew a vacuum. So, Terry worked with it a bit and got one to seal...only, it pulled juices from the meat up into the sealer (a big no-no) and didn't vacuum it properly, so it wasn't really sealed. Ugh.

By now it's midnight. The boys are still up. :( And we realized that we can't seal the meat until it's more frozen...but we don't' want to get back up at 3 AM to do this! So, Terry tells me that he can get a saw from the garage (which I can sterilize) and we can just let the logs freeze SOLID and he'd saw through them to be able to do it on Monday night. Well, last night, we eat supper and proceed to 'saw' through this meat. Oh, what a sight it was. We got through ONE log and Terry's arm was so tired that we had to quit...plus it took well over an hour to do one log.

I convinced him that at this point, I would rather have a major cooking day every week or two and thaw out the 10 lbs and just cook it and divide it into meals. Really, this is a good way to do the week since it will make cooking much easier on our busy nights. It's just more work up front. Anyway, it was just comical to see him with gloves on and a hack-saw making 'beef shavings' on my kitchen table. Oy.

Plus, we found out that Little Chase is having trouble eating.... He'd been doing so good and then stopped eating so well. They aren't sure why, but I think they were gonna run some tests and see if everything was alright.

We got another ice storm last night....our third in about as many weeks. I can handle snow...but ice really bums me out. I get stuck in the house and can't do anything. Plus it makes the boys CRAZY! And now it's snowing on top of the ice!

We got the van worked on yesterday. We have known for a few months that the brakes were making funny noises, but we just didn't have the time (or money) to sink into the van. Well, it was getting to a point that we knew we had to do something. So Terry made the appointment and when I got over there the guy wanted to ride around with me for a bit so I could explain to him what we heard. Well, he tells me (after hearing it) that it sounds like 'normal brake noise' to him. But, he'd look at it anyway if Terry wanted him to. We wait for an hour and a half to hear back from them (when they had said it would only be 30 minutes) and find out that yes, there was a problem and they need to replace the drum (?) and the pads. All told, it will be well over $300 for the whole thing. Ugh. We hadn't planned on spending THAT much. :(

Hopefully, life will slow down one day soon, but I'm not counting on it. LOL