Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

Last night, I cooked!  I had a dinner made from scratch all ready before Josh made it home from work!  I made vegetable soup.  And what’s even more amazing is that all the children ate it!  (Ok, Cameron didn’t really eat it.  But he’d just snacked on a huge apple so I don’t think he was terribly hungry.)  The last few nights in a row dinner time has been pretty frustrating to Josh because he asks the kids what they want to eat and then he fixes like 7 different things and they don’t eat it.  I saw that our potatoes were getting a bit shriveled and sprouting growth and we have a huge bag of dehydrated diced carrotts that have been sitting in the cupboard for months cause I don’t have a clue what to do with them and we have two bags of celery in the fridge because we all love celery, but we never eat it because no one wants to bother washing and cutting it so I washed them and chopped up the leaves (which I usually just throw away!) and put the leaves in the soup and left the stalks in the fridge ready for snacking.  Elise helped me find a third of an onion in a sour cream container in the fridge which was the only onion left in the house so we threw that in, and added some frozen peas which the kids don’t like but Josh loves.  All of this I added to a pot of boiling boullion and when it was done the kids couldn’t even taste the peas so although they fussed originally, they ate them all!  And there was enough left over for me to eat today and probably tomorrow too!  And after eating it myself I decided that it is a good base for even more vegetables to be added so I may throw in some green beans, cabbage or corn.  My mom puts beets in her Beef Vegetable soup and they turn the soup pink but you can’t taste them so it’s good soup, but I never buy beets and wouldn’t have a clue what to do with them, besides, I don’t need anything else in the house that stains!!!  Just this morning Elena got ahold of a piece of chocolate (I have no idea where she found it!) and so I unknowingly picked her up to take her out to the van so we could go exercise and she got chocolate all over my good white shirt!  I assume I’ll be able to get the stain out, but it’s still so frustrating!  It’s a very good thing that I wasn’t planning on running any other errands after exercising today or I really would have been mad.  Anyway, I made dinner, yay me, and now I’m doing laundry.