Soy milk and cat food

It's one of those days where nothing seems to go right. My soy milk machine is broken. Mia can't handle dairy so to make life easier we all switched over to soy milk, or in our case soy/chickpea milk. Like most things we make our soy milk at home. This allows us to add the flavor and mix of beans that we prefer. But my soy milk maker is broken. Which puts me back to making it stove top until I send in to be fixed. The only real upside here is that the one and only time in my life I have sent in a warranty was for this machine.

But back to this morning. Knowing I only had enough soy milk left for one bottle I knew making it stove top was my first priority, but Kiki did not seem to want to let me get there. She was rough this morning and it took me the better part of 2 hours to figure out that the reason she was so up set was that she wanted to wear a diaper today (we are in the middle of no-pants potty training summer). But it didn't end there. She cried her little two-year-old butt off through the better part of the morning. I did all the checks- no new teeth that I could see, no fever, no tummy ache, she told me nothing hurt, she had breakfast, her milk, I tried a movie, reading a book, cuddle time, you name it. I got to the point where I thought maybe she was just acting up and had her stand in the corner which usually halts the crying. Not this time. This time she persevered.

Eventually I just gave up and after a while she did as well. Once Mia was down for her morning nap it was time to begin the process of making soy milk stove top. I have gotten so used to the convenience of having a machine I really was not as prepared as I used to be for the amount of time it actually takes, along with the amount of attention it needs. Luckily I have the book Asian Tofu by Andrea Nguyen. It has a comprehensive recipe for at-home soy milk making. I've used it many times usually when making tofu and before I got my lovely machine. Half way done though is whereI ran into trouble. I had strained my soy milk and was in the middle of re-cooking it when I went to check on Kiki. She had been playing outside for a few minutes and I was just curious was she was up to. I called to her, she looked back at me and took off. As I watched her running away I realized her diaper had failed.

There is a shrub in our yard probably about ten feet long and six or so feet high. She loves to play underneath it and has little toddler sized tunnels through the entire thing. Toddler-sized being the key here, for whenever I go to fetch her she runs full speed for that shrub, tries to get herself as deep inside it as she is able.  This morning was no exception. By the time I got to the opening of the shrub I realized something else. She was eating cat food. At this point I do my best to get myself into the shrub grab the poop covered child and get as much of the cat food out of her mouth and hands as I was able.When we get back inside and I give the soy milk a quick stir, grab the wipes to clean Kiki up and that's when Mia decides she is ready to wake up from her nap and would also really like mommy's attention.

The in-between then and now is about on par with the rest of my morning. Leaving me here with Kiki in the bath Mia on my lap and me wondering if I can shut all the blinds, call the girls lunch their dinner and convince both them and me that it is in fact bedtime and that once we all fall asleep we can wake up to a slightly less stressful morning.

Instead I have at least found my cup of coffee from this morning and have just realized that nap time is only about an hour away. So I've got kids to feed and hope for a more mellow afternoon.