Sickness ~ Hubby ~ Homemade Graham Crackers ~ More Hand Lotion

The only reason I am up this morning, is to locate the school's transportation number and cancel the bus today.  Both kids that ride it are sick with fevers and whatnot.   As luck would have it, the school was calling me as I was calling them, and they closed today due to snow and bad roads.  Traffic outside, is moving extremely slow.

As for me?  I woke up at 4am freezing cold.  I knew at that point I was the next to get the sickness (that our 15 year-old brought home from a sleepover).  My temperature was 101.4 and I am not feeling so well.   


I'm finding out that all of the kids that were at that sleepover got sick, and I am not sure if they are all well yet.

I had most of my blog written out last night, so you get the joy of reading it today.  I figured if I got myself up, I might as well post something.   

Don't worry, I'm heading back to bed after I sanitize the keyboard with my Thieves oil spray.  I do regret not making a batch of elixir yesterday, and not making a jar of homemade ginger ale syrup.  We are going to need both today.

Enjoy!

Hubby was hankering for a meatloaf and mashed potatoes.  He was evidently hankering a lot, because instead of bringing home three pounds of meat, he brought home six.  Six!

Instead of one meatloaf, I made two, so we are well supplied this week.  In fact, so well supplied, I didn't have to cook the next night.

I do have to mention, when I went to slice potatoes, I realized there was not enough for us.  Then, I remembered our canned (home canned) potatoes.  I popped open one jar, rinsed them, and added them directly to the pot with the freshly cut potatoes.  It worked perfectly.

With a kiddo home sick, and not able to eat much, and the roads in bad condition, I baked homemade graham crackers for her. 

I used a mini cookie cutter to cut some hearts into the cracker dough.  They were super cute, and a fun (and healthy) idea for Valentine's Day.

 The original recipe states to bake 18 minutes, then leave them in the oven and turn it off for 30 (to crisp up).  I do not do that.  I remove them, and allow them to crisp up on the baking sheet until they are cool.  This, so far, has worked for me over the years.

Update:  Photo of the heart crackers

While that baked, I brewed an pot of herbal eye health tea with bilberries.

I mixed up another batch of homemade hand lotion too.  Although I really wanted to add cayenne extract, I used two other essential oils for sore joints.  If it works well, I'll share it.  I looked up the prices for cayenne extract, but the store I buy from was sold out of 1 oz. bottles.  A 4 oz. bottle was just over $30.  Yikes.  I'll wait.