Dinner Disaster

Let me start out with this has not been the best of weeks. It started out beautifully. I was refreshed and energized after the kids had spent the weekend at their grandparents, but that soon ended. Lovey's runny nose, that he had on Monday, turned into wheezing, can't complete full sentences, and needs a breathing treatment. Thankfully I still had my mother-in-law's nebulizer, which I forgot to give back over the weekend. It saved me a trip to the doctor, which was completely booked when I called anyways. Then Littlebit caught the cold which meant another night with little sleep.

Then today Littlebit decided to climb into her high chair while I was making lunch. (She figured out how to do this when the tray is off.) She instantly stands in her high chair and as I move toward her she steps backwards and falls with a loud thud. Thankfully she is okay.

Now on to dinner... I decided to try a new recipe of crispy eggplant with the eggplant we received from our CSA and rutabega fries also from the CSA. Two new foods for the kids (rutabegas are new for me too), so I decided to make some pasta with the pesto sauce mentioned in a previous post. As I'm thinking things are going well, I might bake brownies for dessert, I cut into my eggplant to find that it is bad and then I smell an awful smell and see smoke. The oil on my rutabega fries has dripped onto the bottom of my oven and is burning. I can't use the oven, the eggplant is bad and the pesto sauce is bland and soupy. I cut open a watermelon to go with the pasta and it was partially hollow. Tonight was not my night. We were meant to only eat pasta I guess. So as I sent the kids with daddy to get ice cream, I mopped the floor (oil dripped on the floor) and continued to air out the house. Ugh.