Thrown off Thursday + Thankful Thursday!

I'll have to get to my Thankful Thursday below. Today has been crazy. I got a call at 8am asking if I could fill in for another parent that was scheduled to work at the preschool. No problem! I have already filled my duties for Oct so I have a head start on my Nov hours! It was bathroom parent which is my LEAST favorite duty. I have to make sure kids hands are clean and take kids to the potty, which means change diapers for most of the kiddos. Today there was shaving cream in the sensory table AND painting for art, so I had a few foamy orange kids in line at a time to get washed up. Fortunately I only had 2 diapers to change, but one was a complete blow out. UGH! The kid was crying for mom too. Poor kid only had shorts to change into, so he didn't get to return to the playground. (I need to make sure I check Dori's cubby to see if she has a change of cold weather clothing.) Anyway, once you've potty trained your (last) kid you really don't want to change other kids...YKWIM! I try to keep my gag reflex in check. OK..TMI! We also seemed to have 1-2 kids crying at a time today. Not a typical day at school, but we all survived.

Afterwards we headed to WM for a shopping spree. $115 later (and there were only a few things on my list) and I was finally home at 2pm! Nothing like eating lunch at 2:15! After a phone call and follow up, I didn't get time to sit, relax, and think until 3pm...which is when Parker and a friend got home from school. It was grey all day and then it started to rain...so it seemed more like 10am than 3pm.

We had Broc Chix for dinner. It was so yummy! We have been sick of the same old food lately and it's time to rotate some dinners. We haven't had Broc Chix in a while, which made it all the better. A few years ago we purchased Chinese cooking lessons at a youth auction. They were offered by a good friend of ours from church. She taught us several different dishes/techniques, but my fav was the stir fry, of which Broc Chix is what we prepare the most. I'll post the recipe below.

Right now we are watching Survivor and I am typing on commercials. My thought is that the edit points toward Randy or Ace winning...of which I say ICK! BUT...I don't have any favorite contestants, so who cares.

Brocolli Chicken

minced mixture (garlic, onion, ginger)
chicken
brocolli
carrots
soy sauce
oyster sauce
corn starch (I mix in a seperate container with water)
oil

-heat oil in wok
-add in minced mixture (1-2 TBS?)
-add chicken after the mixture has cooked a little
-just let the chicken cook on one side at a time and turn to cook the other side, don't stir it around
-add carrots
-let that cook a little, we usually put a lid on, sometimes we add some water in to make sure there is plenty of liquid to cook in
-add brocolli, let it steam/cook
-add some soy sauce and stir it in
-after that's cooked up a little add the corn starch to thicken the liquid, turn the heat down right away to a simmer
-add in oyster sauce (2-3 teaspoons, I'd guess) and stir in

We serve it over white rice (yes we have a rice cooker!) This recipe is adaptable to any meat or produce...just add the produce according to how long you'd need to cook it. I love this same recipe with orange juice added instead of water and mango. YUM!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for electricity & gas which leads to heat, heated water, air conditioning, as well as other conveniences.