Desperately trying to figure out a schedule!

Its so hard but it does get better. I FINALLY figured out that the best thing for us was to make a big batch-o-somethin’ on Sunday and we could eat it during the week. I used to make lovely dinners every day so was in a little grief/denial phase about that going away and was really pressuring myself to find a way to keep up that old routine. Which of course doesn’t work anymore and only ended up making me upset/sad/frustrated/disappointed. Once I let go its been 10,000 times better and we actually have *a meal* instead of grazing on all sorts of junk waiting for the baby to go sleep and then cooking. Or not because by then we’d eaten so many chips that it was just pathetic.

When the kids were younger (they are 17 and 19 now), we used to grill lots of different things on Sunday – chicken, beef, italian sausages, spuds, and then would turn the precooked meals into something during the week – I could never get dinner together in half an hour, but in under an hour was manageable. cleaned all the veggies on the weekend, and bagged them. I made lunch for myself with leftovers (cooked rice, grilled meat of some sort, and a small shake from a bag of frozen vegetables from Trader joes.) I’d put prepackaged lunches for me in the freezer, and could just grab one on the way out of the house. I would put together little baggies of carrots and celery for the boys, and bought small throwaway containers (like you would put salsa in at a taco takeout) and would add ranch dressing for their lunches. I made cookies (well, mostly I bought them, but I intended to make them) and pre-wrapped two in wax paper, and stuck them in the freezer. when morning came, I could grab veggies, dip, and cookies for the boys, plus a frozen juice box out of the freezer) and all I had to do was make a sandwich for each of them. It will get better, really. I also finally leaned on my husband to pitch in ~ which he did. Boy, was he glad when we were finished with diapers and bottles.