- Start out with grand expections of a delicious dinner, your husband's eyes smiling as he discovers one of his favorite meals awaiting him when he gets home from work.
- Add in a bit of a headache, because your darling 5-1/2 month daughter probably won't sleep through the night until after your dear friend's baby - who, by the way, isn't even due until August.
- Mix up your meat and other ingredients from this recipe, stopping every few minutes to get something for your whiny 2-1/2 year old, who for some reason gets up from naps in a cranky mood and is not satisfied with anything you offer her.
- Spend at least 10 minutes forming soft meatballs that don't hold their form too well, but sure will taste good once they're baked.
- Take four steps to the pre-heated oven, holding the tray of meatballs in your right hand.
- As you slightly lean down to open the oven door, for no apparent reason whatsoever, drop the tray of meatballs.
- Be sure some of the mushy meat mixture falls on your dishtowel, the oven door, your cabinet, and a good portion of it in a pile remarkably resembling vomit on your tile floor.
- Also be sure that there are no discernable meat "balls" left on the tray, just one big lump.
- Stand there in stunned silence. At least two minutes.
- Realize that your previously noisy children have the sense to also be in reverent silence at the tragedy they have just beheld.
- Notice that it is now 5:30 and your dear husband will soon be walking in the door and you have zero desire to touch any of that meat with your bare fingers again.
- Salvage what you can, slop it into a casserole dish, and stick it in the oven.
- Furiously clean up the piles on the floor before the dog rushes in to claim them.
- Make the barbecue sauce. Do NOT cry in it.
- Pour the sauce on the nearly baked meatball loaf and shove it back in the oven, not really caring what happens to it.
- Finish the rest of dinner preparations.
- Serve the meatball loaf to the family and realize that it's the tastiest meatloaf you've ever made and everyone (except previously mentioned cranky 2-1/2 year old) absolutely loves it.
- Swear to never, ever drop a tray of meatballs again.
- The end.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Meatball Loaf
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Not one of my kids has slept through the night til after their first birthday! You are not alone.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jenny. :) Sometimes I just wonder what in the world is the matter with me/my kids when I hear of other babies sleeping through the night by 3 months.
ReplyDeleteOh, Rebekah. For some reason, I decided to come to your blog today and read your post. It made me laugh at the calamity of it all, although I know it wasn't fun at the time. You're an amazing mom/wife/child of God. Thankfully, you have a pretty awesome husband, too. :) I'm glad everyone loved the meatloaf even if it was quite a fete to complete and didn't look as you had planned. Keep up the good work. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteAnd, Bella was a big baby and a good nurser, but it still took her 8 months to sleep through a full 12 hours. It is exhausting and I'm sure even more so when you have three other kids underfoot. I also know that a couple moms used the cry it out method so their little ones would sleep through the night at 6 weeks. I don't ascribe to that method. It's hard not to comparison shop, but when you do, I find it becomes harder to see the positives in your own parenting. Eventually, you'll get there with Ellia.
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