one is napping and the other is about to lost the Lite Brite toy

So this morning was relatively uneventful...I had to sort out with my mum why her mail, and my brothers, was in the pile she delivered to me.  It turns out, it was for my uncle, which of course now makes so much sense to me, I can't believe I did't figure it out on my own...Shortly thereafter we finished a half hour program (yay!! TV off) and went downstairs to play.  We got the wood stove running, with only one crying jag. Apparently the older girl pushed the younger one off the rocking horse...My older daughter reasons that she didn't want her little sister to get her toy tools; again logical thinking abounds!!  
  We made 'clean' peanutbutter oatmeal energy bars; which taste great, but we have arrived at the same predictament as last night, nobody wants to eat in my house except for me.  It may be a clean recipe, but I am pretty sure I ate my portion for the next 3 days!!  And I realized as we made them that the numeracy skills that come with a shared cooking recipe, are really only relevant if you let the child do the measuring, in addtion, to the pouring and mixing the dry ingredients.  <<Cue hand slapping-forehead>>
  So...maybe next time! Elena (the oldest) is playing with a Lite Bright Cube!  This is NOT an improvement over the older model except for the fact that you need a screw driver to get to the electrical source.  There is no lean to the cube (obviously) so the small pointy 'bulbs' fall with a dainty plink to our laminate floors; small, pretty much constant, reminders of the tearing that would happen should Emma (the younger) ingest them!! 
  Yes there was anxiety present for both of those last 2 activities.  That is when TV sounds the best, when I want to engage my children in physically safe activities (though if I let them, mine would jump all over the furniture).
  We shall see how the rest of the day fares.  And yes...Our laundry is in the same place it was two days ago...with nothing else folded.  We'll see what my husband says when he gets home later...But now that I think about it, Elena and I are going to fold clothes...At least until Em wakes up and needs something!
  Until next time...AIM4Peas