When I got Gillian up this morning, I could smell something really ripe in her pants. But, she hates to be changed right after getting up. So, I put her in her highchair for breakfast. After she had gotten bored with that, I took her back to her room to change her. Wow. She was leaking. I didn't realize that... Oops. After an inadequate attempt to clean her at the changing table, she went into the bath. She was pretty glad about that!
After bath time, we went to the front window to watch the trucks pick up the garbage & recycling. We found that a man across the street also watches the trucks. After the recycling truck had gone, he put away his can & two of the other neighbor cans. 30 minutes later when the garbage truck came, he did the same thing. Wow. How tidy & neighborly. No one likes to leave their cans out here. I guess it looks dirty. In our old neighborhood, sometimes we would leave our cans out all week. (I know, lazy & rude.) Here I think we would be fined, or kicked out of the neighborhood if we tried that stunt.
But, one of the other neighbor guys across the street, parked his van in front of our house this morning. Instead of in his own driveway. So, the street cleaner had to skip our section. Wow. That guy is not so neighborly.
This morning, when I pulled out the 1/2 & 1/2 for my morning coffee, it had a suspicious smell. I dumped some into the sink & it was totally curdled. AH!!! The sell by date wasn't even until tomorrow. I want my money back. That could've killed us. Sour milk products are my husband's biggest fear. I am glad he wasn't home for the scene. When he hears of it, he will probably want to get our own milk cow, so it is always fresh...
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haha! I enjoyed this post. Gotta love the ripe treasures our kids leave us. :)
If you live in our neighborhood (and I think all of Oakley is this way) you get fined if your garbage is out 24 hours past its pick up date. Huge bummer for us lazy folk. ;) Yesterday I didn't get ours out in time and so we have to stomp it down for the next 7 days. Bummer....
If I could imagine anyone milking their own cow for fresh milk products, I think it would be you!
Hope you are doing well...can I stop by next week?
Erin, what a day! Treasure these memories -- even the exasperating ones. I admire your motherhood.
Why does that always happen with milk? It is *supposed* to last a week past the sell by date so that you have time to finish drinking it. But no way does that happen. I have to pour milk out all the time because its 2 days past the sell by and smells horribly. I found however, that Organic milk has an incredibly long stamp date. Regular milk you can only seem to get a sell by date that is just over a week away, but this was a sell date that was about a month away!
I wonder... did you transfer your milk from your old house to the new one? Maybe the transfer is what helped it go bad a lot quicker? Krista's right... I am constantly annoyed with how quickly it goes bad. I buy goat milk for Rachel and that stuff is bad within days. Bla.
Kids are totally gross sometimes. :-) Nothing like the joys of daily life as a mommy.
If we leave our garbage cans (which are for all three flats in our building) out for more than a few hours past pick up, the homeless people fill them up with random...garbage.
Also...what you said about your husband and the cow, reminds me of mine. We don't eat dairy but for different reasons. I am lactose intolerant, my husband is worried about mad cow. ;-)
Whenever I buy Horizon 1/2 &1/2, the expir. date is always so far out, but it says you should drink it within a week of opening it. Does it really stay that fresh in its sealed container?? So weird.
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