This week’s jar of clay brought to you by Flour & Flowers.
Friday found us baking & delivering 25 loaves of bread, 105 tortillas, and 19 pans of cinnamon rolls. This started at 5:30am and included all of the following disasters.
We made three batches of bread with the incorrect amount of sugar, which had to be redone. The three batches were still baked in the end, and will contribute to our neighborhood watermelon & bread party this weekend. (Why do we have 60 watermelons? Check out our Instagram @thespurlocks.)
A training that began at 9:30am for our two seamstresses, in one of the rooms. Since one of our seamstresses usually watches the kids during baking and the other has a child herself, that left me with 4 kids under 2 and under while Stephen was at a Burmese lesson and got back with lunch.
Then we attempted to feed them all and get them sleep. It was a mixed bag. (If you were in a bag and shaken up with four toddlers. That kind of mixed bag.)
We then ran off to swim oh-so-quickly in the one hour break before deliveries.
At one house, Pyo Pyo’s two-year-old managed to lock all the doors and lock us out. Thankfully I’d left the back hatch up for flowers, but after trying to teach him to open it…well, I climbed through the back of our SUV over flowers and bread in my dress. It was probably not completely appropriate, but I was out of ideas.
Not too many houses after that, we returned to restart the car and found a dead car battery. Stephen and a friend with a car came to our rescue (because motorbikes aren’t great for recharging car batteries).
Just another friendly reminder that we are perplexed and struck down, but this Flour & Flowers thing is still a treasure! We made profit amidst the chaos 😊
And I’m thankful for the calm, chilly Saturday morning that followed.
