Tuesday, January 28,
2014
This was one of the slowest days ever
in the temple. It seems to be either
feast or famine—mostly feast, but the pace today was very slow.
So, just for the sake of posting, I
have one more little anecdote left in my pocket and this one is on me.
You know how much CAYG (clean as you
go) is a part of my routine, in particular, in the kitchen. Last week I made a Jell-o salad for Glade
with fruit cocktail, his favorite. Our
kitchen is great, but small with little counter space. The fruit was drained and had been placed in
a bowl. The ice cubes and cold water
were on the counter in a two-cup measuring cup.
The water had boiled and the black cherry powder had been stirred into
it in the pan. Well, I placed the pan in
the sink to cool, and then decided to wipe up the counter, rinse out the
strainer, and wash the spoon. Having
done that, my crazy mind’s eye caught sight of the pan in the sink. So I proceeded to put soap on the brush and
began to scrub the pan. Then I noticed
that it was really, really red and thought that it must not have been thoroughly
dissolved! Oh no!! Big Oops!!
I washed the pan with the Jell-o still in it!! Well, it got tossed and the second time
around it was done right. I decided to
slow down a little and finish one thing at a time. J
Mom, that makes me laugh out loud. I lOVE it! I wonder if people without ADHD are more successful with CAYG than we are? And I"m so spacey that if I didn't have CAYG, NOTHING would get done ever! So thank you! That was a great story!
ReplyDeleteAround here we do CIYC (clean if you can) because the kids are faster at making messes than we are at cleaning them. It's usually more productive to read to the kids, which prevents additional messes, than to try cleaning the existing ones since that would leave the kids unoccupied and able to create 3 times as many messes as the one we are trying to clean.
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