souper day

today was another tiring day, but in a good way.  fall break has officially started!!!  woo hoo!  i finished parent/teacher conferences at noon, got the boys and went to wal-mart to buy all of our ingredients to cook the wednesday night meal at church.  i was originally going to cook sloppy joes, but when i left school today it was rainy and the temperature had dropped.  so i change my mind!  i wanted soup.

so the boys and i made stew, potato soup, and tortilla soup.  we actually made 2 pots of stew because the first one burned.  i couldn't believe it!  i have never burned stew and have made it many times.  it turns out that the back left burner in the church kitchen has a mind of its own and just gets extremely hot no matter what it's set on!  

so we made a mad dash to the neighborhood market and started all over.  the boys were a HUGE help!  colby washed 10 pounds of potatoes all by himself.  spencer opened a bazillion cans with an old hand-held can opener. {neither one of us noticed there was an electric can opener on the counter behind us!}  

it was a hectic and frustrating afternoon, but we got it all cooked and on the table with 5 minutes to spare!  it's a real good thing we made 3 pots because only 37 people signed up to eat, but over 50 actually came!  

the bad thing is i didn't know that our garbage disposal at church is more of an antique than a functional piece of equipment.  if you put too much in it {even if you do it in little batches} it backs up somewhere down the line and floods the hallway by the preschool classrooms.  let's just say there was an incident in the preschool hallway tonight!  {i promise i didn't know that would happen!  i felt so bad.}