How to defrost your freezer and blog about it in 20 minutes or less

Just wanted to pass along the best idea I discovered for defrosting your freezer. If you keep a freezer in the garage for extras, haul it out to your driveway. Get a hose and some towels and rags. Spray the inside of the freezer with the hose and you will have the ice melted in 5 minutes or less. No banging, no hot pans of water, and wet puddles under the freezer. Then wash and wipe it dry and put it away. It will take you longer to get the freezer to the driveway then it takes to defrost it but it is totally worth it.

One other great thing I learned this week, substitute half the flour in your pancake recipe with graham cracker crumbs. Serve with fresh fruit and cream and you will be sooooo happy that you did.

Last great tip of the day, don't let your 11 yr old "sonic bounce" your 5 year old cause someone may end up with a broken leg. Said broken leg may just make your life incredibly challenging because all you need is a 5 year old who can't walk for 1 month in addition to a wild 2 year old and an infant in a carrier. You won't end up going anywhere for multiple weeks except to the orthopedic. But the 5 year old will enjoy an extra birthday that year as she is given lots of gifts to amuse herself as she sits on the couch. She even got the extra extra special gift of the stomach flu on her first day home with the cast. That had to be my best day ever. But we are adjusting to life with Lily in a cast and wheelchair.

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Tom and Jen Loveland Family said…

Wow. Sounds like life has been a bit crazy there. :) Hope the month is going by quickly for you. When Jenny broke her leg, she got the stomach flu the next day, too. Must be something about getting the cast.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Speedy Gonzales and the Black Stretchy Pants

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Finally some pictures

Hooray we have new windows! The installers left this morning and we now have 5 beautiful vinyl windows and one of them is a bay window. We are taking advantage of the tax credit for energy efficient windows and hoping that we can stay a little warmer this winter. So all day yesterday we had no windows in our house and at the end of the day our house was full of flies. Thank goodness that global warming has taken a vacation in CA because it has been a burning 75 degrees the last 2 weeks. Of course it happens to be the weeks that my kids are in swimming lessons so they have been freezing. Yesterday one of Daves work colleagues came by to look at our goats. Seeing that we know nothing about them except what I have found googling, this guy is a definite expert. He told we should butcher them soon or sale them as they are ready. If it was a matter of me being ready they would have been butchered 2 weeks after we got them. They have been a real pain in the neck. I have gotten used ...

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