I need to focus on things other than the fact that my house hasn’t sold yet 😅 Trust me, I know it was basically just listed, but you hear those crazy stories about people’s houses selling the day they’re listed, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for such a story to be our own.
Alas, it is not, and we have to wait like everyone else!
My brain and body have done a LOT of waiting in the past couple of years specifically, and while I’m basically proficient in the act of waiting, I’m not fond of it. Neither is my anxiety. Neither is my stomach acid. If you’ve followed long enough, you get it. But waiting sucks for everybody, not just me.
Brady had to work yesterday. Work Saturdays are hard in general for me, and for the kids, and this one was especially challenging because it’s freshly into the listing process and both Brady and I are on pins and needles waiting for people to want to see our house. So, I opted for distraction, and I baked.
First, I made a recipe my sister gave me for a giant batch of pumpkin bran muffins.
I made these a little while ago and they were a hit, so I made them again yesterday. I even used my reeeaaal pureed pumpkin that I made! Oh and white chocolate chips! Woop woop!
The brown sugar did win one battle, but in response, I cooked it, so…
And because I was on a pumpkin kick, I went for some pumpkin bread as well.
I didn’t love this one as much, because it takes forever to bake through and there is still a gooey spot at the top. But! Live and learn. Everyone will still eat it. The banana bread from the day before turned out better. Ah well.
The goal of these items may not appeal to everyone, so please don’t judge the amount of garbage, but…
…the whole point was to have these things for breakfasts and lunches, where kids can grab whatever and I don’t have to think about it or fight them to eat. Ideally, they’d be for lunches, so they’d defrost on their own. My breakfast goals are not yet met, so these will likely double for a while while I sort out some other ideas.
And then I got twitchy once that was done, so I made one more batch of baking. One that is more about treats than about being a meal…
I make really yummy homemade oreos with cream cheese filling, but this time I made them be LEMON. And in my humble opinion, they are WAY better this way!! YUM!
So. This was the end result of a day of being distracted from the lack of sale of my house:
The freezer has some nice baking in it now for the week ahead, and maybe even longer!!
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll chop up some veggie packs for the kids too. I always feel good when I have those suckers made. Oh, and granola bars. Now that groceries have been purchased (like the biggest shop we’ve done in months) I have no excuse not to bake or cook yummy things!