This is a picture of few things that "St. Mama" put in or on a bowl full of sliced roasted almonds with cabbage, and several other things to make a salad for supper. These 3 items consist of 1): Sesame Seed Oil, 2):Chinese Rice Vineger, and 3): Soy Sauce. I don't know how or where she gets her ideas, but it turned out tasty. The point of the picture isn't how those three things wound up in the cabbage salad, but the point is how it wound up all over the kitchen counter, floor, and Emma's shirt.
First, as to the title of "St. Mama." We ate supper in a normal manner, but as we were cleaning up, things got a little wilder than usual, with me chasing kids around giving them "karate" chops on their "brain-o-melons" as we call their heads. My lovely and very calm wifey, so peaceful in her kitchen; trying desperately to ignore the chaos engulfing her as wildly raucous children escalate from "chopping" daddy back to getting wet hand towels and slapping (not snapping) them in each other's faces (and mine). The howling only got louder and louder until even I could not take it anymore and endeavored to calm them down. That was when it was when one of the girls made the motion to vote to change mama's name to ST. mama, "because the poor thing, she has 5 kids and no husband" Grrrrr.
But just as I thought I had a handle on things and they were beginning to settle down, Ems sees the mixing bowl that St. Mama mixed up the above concoction in, with a good 1/3 cup left over. For reasons inexplicable, (compulsive child) she very unwisely decides to pick this up and SWILL it! I watched without knowing what was going wrong; the first realization I had was when she instantly turned red, then gagged. For some reason, this caused some reaction in the back of her throat, and she literally blew ALL of it back out- except through her NOSE!!! If that is not gross to you, mix yourself up a little soy sauce, sesame seed oil and Chinese rice vinegar concoction and snort it up your nose; tell me what you think... About the only thing that could make it better would be fish sauce! ugh.
Just when I had them calmed back down, too. I've managed to banish them all to the basement for about an hour now; I'm hoping that they will wear themselves out sometime around my bedtime before I dare tell them it's their bedtime. Maybe if its late enough, I can feign sleep and let the only adult take care of the rest of the children in my house.
