Welcome to the Monkey House! Please don't tease the monkeys as it agitates them and we all know that there is nothing worse than agitated monkeys (unless it is agitated zookeepers!) I'm not sure what I am going to do with this blog but it is sure to be absolutely entertaining or completely boring. You just never know :)
The kids and I are "single" for the next couple days. Jason is working in Indy and staying at Cherie's house (thanks Cherie!!)
We woke up to a snowy start :) There was a light dusting at 6 when I dragged myself out of bed and it was still coming down. Alex had basketball practice at 7 so I had to get him out of bed and moving earlier than he likes. Highway 61 was really slick and nasty. We followed a friend from the team out to school and watched them go around a curve sideways. When I dropped Alex off his friend was getting out of the car and I heard him say, "Did you see us Koby?!!!!" Alex was like "Man that was cool"! Kids. Anyway what is normally a 15 minute drive ended up taking about 30 so by the time I got back home, I had about 10 minutes to put together my breakfast and lunch and then we had to leave again to take the girls to school! Geez! The great thing is I got to do it all again in the afternoon!
We woke up to a snowy start :) There was a light dusting at 6 when I dragged myself out of bed and it was still coming down. Alex had basketball practice at 7 so I had to get him out of bed and moving earlier than he likes. Highway 61 was really slick and nasty. We followed a friend from the team out to school and watched them go around a curve sideways. When I dropped Alex off his friend was getting out of the car and I heard him say, "Did you see us Koby?!!!!" Alex was like "Man that was cool"! Kids. Anyway what is normally a 15 minute drive ended up taking about 30 so by the time I got back home, I had about 10 minutes to put together my breakfast and lunch and then we had to leave again to take the girls to school! Geez! The great thing is I got to do it all again in the afternoon!
It was 6 by the time I got the monkeys home and they were starving. My first inclination was to order a peanut butter and banana pizza but as I am trying to slim down a bit (the zookeeper should be smaller than the hippos) I decided to fix the little sweeties supper. I made a lovely scrambled egg and lean turkey sausage concotion. This was accompanied by some tasty whole wheat toast with homemade apple butter and some apple slices. They all promptly turned up their c
ute little monkey noses. They are just precious!! It doesn't look that bad does it? When they were informed that this was supper, take it or leave it, guess what? They ate it. 1 pound of turkey sausage, 1 dozen eggs, half a loaf of bread and two very large apples.Sometimes the zookeeper has to just stand firm and tell the monkeys how it is. So that was today in the Monkey House. Pretty exciting stuff, eh?
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Hey, I'm loving Life in the Monkey House! Could you do Susan a favor and email/call her w/ tech support help in starting up a Hoosier Loser blog?
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted on all the antics at the zoo. And I think supper looked yummy.
Jerri
oooooh oooooh ooooooh (trying to make monkey sounds). Great blog, mama zookeeper! Bob and I are still cleaning up leftovers from Christmas. You guys should have eaten more. I put the molasses cookies in the freezer. Be sure and give the password "the froggers are in the freezer." They make good monkey food.
ReplyDeleteBe careful out there. It took me an hour and 15 minutes to get to work this morning. I saw one car out in the middle of a field. I don't think the guy was out there milking cows.