Okay, I admit it… the reason blogging has been light is that I’m throwing up, sleeping, and throwing up again. In other words, I’m about eight weeks pregnant.
I’m happy, of course, but right now I’m also pretty frustrated. There is an unbelievable amount of stuff that has to get done around here. My Ideal To-Do List is about twenty lines long. My Real To-Do List is as follows:
- Get dressed
- Feed children
- Do math or reading
- Feed children again
- Take nap while children dump toys on floor and watch DVDs they got for Christmas that I haven’t had time to screen yet (please, someone tell me that Madagascar is not too objectionable, because they’ve already watched it four times and I haven’t seen it yet)
- Possibly make dinner
That’s all that happened today. Laundry? Nope. Clean up after breakfast or lunch? Nope. Schoowork prep? Nope. Packing any boxes (supposedly we’re moving on Saturday)? Nope. Blogging? Okay, one entry (other than this one), made while we ate breakfast.
I did do one other thing today. Yesterday at Melissa’s, after I woke up from an impromptu nap taken while everyone else was making lunch and serving it to the nine (hold on — gotta count — yep, nine) children, Melissa and Hannah gently suggested that perhaps I might consider brewing up some iron tonic, and Deanna asked me if I was taking my vitamins (um, yes, I’ve taken them. Some of them anyway).
Sooooo, properly chastened, I stopped at the co-op on the way home from Melissa’s and bought a couple ounces each of dandelion root and yellowdock, and a bottle of blackstrap molasses. At home I dropped half an ounce of each into a single quart jar, filled it to the top with boiling water, capped it, and let it sit on the counter overnight.
This morning I strained the deep-amber infusion into a saucepan and boiled it away until only a cup was left. That went back into the quart jar, where I added half a cup of molasses to make a thin brown syrup. That’s it: iron tonic. Take one or two tablespoons a day.
I’m having some now. If you like the taste of molasses, it’s not bad. I stirred a tablespoon into a cup of hot water and am drinking it like tea.
We’ll see if I have any more energy in a couple of days. If not, I swear, I am going to start chugging Red Bull for breakfast.
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