Chinese food and serving a room full of 3 year olds

Day 47 - July 27

Now, having just returned from a week with a 5-year-old and at nearly 2-year-old, you’d think I’d have been able to walk right into a room full of 3-year-olds and feel like I knew what I was doing. But I wasn’t sharing my vacation with a room full of 3-year-olds, so I didn’t exactly get to practice that particular scenario. I went to the Oklahoma City Campus of LifeChurch.tv today to serve in the toddler room like I do every Sunday afternoon. This week, however, they were short on volunteers to work with the 3-year-olds and asked if I would mind jumping in there. I said, of course not! Haha, how easily God redirects my energy!

It was a room full of very energetic kids, to say the least. Half of them got scared or upset when they were dropped off so I spent a lot of time consoling kiddos. It was sweet to see them warm up to the room, the other kids, and most especially all of the different kinds of entertainment in there (now I better understand all those toys and accessories parents have with them at restaurants, movie theaters, grocery stores). These guys are non-stop and they need a lot of entertainment! Other than a few little disagreements about the balls for basketball - some of the boys are going to need to work on their sharing - we had a good time. It was definitely a unique experience and I was happy to get home to the quiet again.

I love to cook, this is random I know, but I am going to start posting what it is I am cooking here too, so I can look back and remember the recipes that I really loved. Today was Chinese food day. I’m off the gluten-free diet right now because I am going to have a blood test done Monday. You have to have the glutens in your blood to know if you’re intolerant of them, does that make sense?

I found a couple of used Chinese cookbooks this weekend and decided I was going to give Moo Goo Gai Pan a try. After about an hour of labor, it was a total success. It was missing something, some spice that I am still at a loss to name, but otherwise very good. I served it with brown rice. Definitely a recipe I’ll try again soon. There are a lot more in the new cookbooks that I want to try too. Can’t wait for some lo mein or chow mein.

Does anyone want the recipe? I was wondering if it would benefit anyone to include that.

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