Food Preparation with a 4 Year-Old

Today is Martin Luther King Jr.Day and Dudette is home. Again. Last week she was in preschool all of two (2) hours. This week starts off with a holiday. How much you want to bet it will snow tonight? I think it's the whole alignment of the planets thing that's supposed to happen in 2012. The disruption of the earth has already started and before it's all said and done, every single parent in the United States will go insane because their children will be home.  All......the......time.

Hubby and I have an Internet technology company that we are able to run from home offices since telecommuting is easy in this industry. Because of that, during the day we have to work from home, even when Dudette is with us. On the occasional day off, she's really good about it and if I play the occasional game of Go Fish or Monopoly, give a baby a check-up here and there or sit at the doll house for a while, she's good to go on her own otherwise.

But, after so long being home, with us, and no one else, she's crawling the walls and sending us off the deep end. That is evidenced by the outfit in which she appeared in the kitchen this morning while I was trying to prepare the chicken pot pie that we'll be having for dinner tonight (more on that later). We had been given some lovely clothes from a friend of ours who has two daughters that are quite a bit older than Dudette. She decided to try them on.
Yes, it's true. It wasn't just a modeling experience. I got a dance routine as well when I came into my office to get my camera.

What Dudette needs is something to occupy her time. I'm thinking that I'm going to look through the swing sets at the CSN stores in hopes that they can come to my rescue. Or maybe I'll look for a trampoline. Which would expend the most energy? Inflatable bouncers? Thankfully, the "Swing Sets and More" site has all that stuff, and then some. Heck, if it snows again, I could just blow up a bouncer in the garage. Hmmmmm

The best part about it; I don't have to leave home, go to some crowded superstore, fight the crowds, carry a heavy box, try to fit it in my car, and bring it home driving 20 mph because I can't put the back hatch down. They'll deliver it to me. THEY get to be out in the next 1/2" snow storm that'll grind our city to a halt.

I need to be in the kitchen. Do you see the light beckoning me on the right side of that video? That's where I should be. But I'm not. I'm entertaining a goofball. CSN stores help me. You're my only hope.