Just a touch whiny today

Okay, I think my kids are almost all better.  They are all in school today which is a huge change.  Course there's only 5 days left.  I made porridge as usual for them this morning.  Levi complained also as usual and I told him I did it out of love :).  For which he had no reply except his trademarked disgusted rolling of the eyes.  I also hate porridge as my mother also loved me enough to get up and dazily (she is also not a morning person) do the 5 minutes work to get it together every school day.  However, it is incredibly cheap.  And breakfast cereal is incredibly not.  And our kids are beginning to eat so much that calories per penny matters.  So there you go.  However they and I both know that I am not going to be making porridge in the summer holidays so I will have to either put together some granola on a regular basis (not cheap but a bit more filling) or we need to get chickens and have eggs every am.  I love my cold cereal - it's my ultimate comfort food but with the milk and with how much they can pack in their bowls its ridiculous. 

I always come back to how we should be growing our own food.  Dan and I are stuck in entirely the wrong century.  I would LOVE to have goats and thus have our own milk and lean meat supply to supplement the chickens and the theoretical garden (this is the wrong part of the world to garden let me tell you) and that would save so much money.  Ha.  Of course it wouldn't because the fencing alone is a 6 months supply of Superstore ground beef.  Also, I am getting tireder or maybe just lazier and I don't know if I really am up to the daily chores thing.  I can't offload another entire set of duties on Dan who works way too hard all the time.  And the kids could do it on days they don't go to school but that's it.  Otherwise they get overtired and sick and our whole month is off!   Such as this May and June.   Maybe we should homeschool and then we could at least not have to start the whole day at 6 am which is also something I dislike intensely.  Except we would fill our day up with so many mandatory chores that we would actually have to get up at 5 so that wouldn't work.  

It's pretty hard to live in this century and pay for cell phones and high speed and soccer every day of the week as well as two vehicles and a mortgage . . . and also dream about self-sufficiency and solar power and labour intensive food raising.  "I want it all!" Silly.  Which reminds me that I should do some work - paid money sort of work as well as cleaning up some aspect of this house which is smothering under 3-5 people's used Kleenex.  I hate being practical.  Romantic and idealistic is more me.  Too bad the real world won't cooperate!