More peanut butter science and today's spring cleaning project

Remember Josiah's peanut butter grasshopper project? That was fun-and yummy. Well, the other day, Jeffrey got to try his own school project with peanut butter. He's been studying the desert in science and was doing an experiment about how water flows in the desert. He used peanut butter and oatmeal (leftover Simple harvest oatmeal that no one really likes b/c it has pecans in it.) to pack down and imitate the dry, hard desert ground.
Then, he poured water over it and watched how much of the water ran off and how little was absorbed. Truthfully, he could have walked outside to our totally dry, packed ground and done the same experiment. But that wouldn't have been nearly so much fun!!

Then, when it was done, I sprinkled a little brown sugar on top and cooked it in an attempt to make peanut butter granola bars. They weren't bad. The goats really liked them!:-)

And today, I completed another project in my "Spring cleaning for Normal People"

I conquered the vitamin drawer/cabinet. Really the vitamins and supplements take up lots of space and clutter in the drawer and on the cabinet.

I originally set these out so I wouldn't forget to take them. Out of sight, out of mind. Well, know what? I'm so used to seeing them that I forget to take them. So now I have a chart of which ones to take before eating and I'm going to try and make a habit of taking those right before I start to eat a meal and then my "with meals" vitamins I'll take right after I clean up. I also have as a goal to have actually taken all the vitamins in my drawer and pantry before May. These don't do my body any good while sitting on the shelf!!

Here's the drawer-ful of more supplements. This drawer also houses coffee filters and coffee (and various other coffee JUNK...i.e. the plastic cow shaped creamer AND an empty coffee can) because it's easy access to the coffee pot.


So now my drawer looks like this...

And here's my cabinet!!!

I'm finding myself having to fight the urge to fill up the empty space. But all it takes is a few passes by the kitchen noticing how clean it looks when it's empty to change my mind.

How about those tulips! Aren't they beautiful??!! I got them FREE at Central Market this week (with a coupon). I so LOVE LOVE LOVE having fresh flowers around. Just something about it makes me happy. And it makes me want to keep things clean around it. They just don't look quite as beautiful with dishes and food and mail and junk piled up around them! So, maybe the investment of fresh flowers = a cleaner house, hint hint Michael! :-)