So I’m going to once again deviate from the religious/faith/Jesus theme of this blog to share with you a few life lessons that I just happened to learn all last night. Here goes, in no particular order:
1.) Pay attention at the grocery store. Just because the first two cans of soup in the row say “Cream of Chicken” doesn’t mean the two behind it don’t say, “Cream of Celery.” And when you get home and are making the tortilla soup at 10 PM that night, you’re not going to care enough to take it back to the store and get the two you need. So hopefully, tonight’s lesson will not be that cream of celery soup makes tortilla soup taste disgusting. Because if it does, dinner will not be fun for the 6 people you are preparing it for.
2.) If you pick out a grocery cart, and it has a squeaky wheel, it’s worth your sanity to take it back and get another one. The reason “the squeaky wheel gets the oil” is because the squeaky wheel is annoying.
3.) If you don’t have time to wash out the dishes from baking banana bread and pumpkin bread for Thanksgiving before the end of finals, you probably just don’t need to make the food to begin with. Neither of these two batters keeps well while sitting in bowls in the sink for more than two weeks.
4.) A sub lesson of #3…the instant gratification of not washing the dishes because you hate washing dishes is not, in any way, worth the delayed no-gratification-at-all-whatsoever you will have when inevitably the dishes do get washed.
5.) Bleach removes anything. Period. It is a wonderful thing.
6.) Make it a habit to check and make sure you turned on the correct burner when cooking. Otherwise, your ten o’clock hopes of bed go right out the window.
7.) Jim Croche is way fun to listen to while cooking/cleaning dishes.
8.) Plenty of Tupperware is a most convenient thing to have. Buy some. Soon.
In other news, once again the 2 and 3 year olds were going to be passed from teacher to teacher on Wednesday nights, and no curriculum was purchased for this class. I have decided that I am going to be the teacher and this will give me a good opportunity to start coming up with a working plan for my someday-to-be-created children’s curriculum that I will try and get published by 21st Century Christian. My master plan is to wait until I have experienced raising small children of my own to get a more direct feel for what is important for each age to be learning and when, but I can at least get some experimentation in on what works and what doesn’t for the time being. I haven’t taught 2 and 3 year olds for awhile…I think about 4 years or so. But when I first started teaching classes at church when I was 14 that was the age group I had. Baptism by fire for a 14 year old, most definitely. All I remember from that fist class is Brayden Edwards flinging a plastic plate across the room at my head and yelling, “FRISBEE!!” It should be fun.
