I like to make a meal plan for the week on Monday's or Sundays. I have found that it saves me time and money.
Sunday- meatloaf mashed potatoes and broccoli
Monday- enchilada soup
Tues- leftovers
Wendseday- chicken tikki masala over rice and peas
Thursday- sweet and sour chicken and rice and veggie
Friday- chili verde
Saturday- leftovers I am not sure yet.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Funny little things #1
Well today I finally got to meet up with my fun loving career women friend for breakfast. This is her new Alias I like it better then unmarried and childless. She might be those things but she is so much more and really I don't know that fun loving career women comes close either. Anyway today at breakfast we were catching up on each others lives and I was trying to explain how hard it is to be a mother of two when I touched my chest and found a bulge that shouldn't be there. So I take a peek down my shirt and find a pair of my under wear stuck to my shirt. I bust up laughing and my friend looks a little confused. It takes me two times to explain what is going on I was laughing so hard. Finally I say "this just explains my life right now. I have so much going on all the time with the well being of my kids and self that I just am not able to be aware of everything. I just don't have room for more information." This is how I feel. I just can't seem to remember anything new unless it is going to interrupt our life if I don't. Not only that but simple things like my phone number and address have become harder to recall as well. Can we say Mommy brain. There is such a thing and they need to make a pill for it. It just doesn't help a mothers self esteem, but it does make for some great laughs!
Where I am
I am now the mother of two beautiful babies. One boy 2.5 years old and one girl 5 months old. And I decided people lie. Well yeah I knew that. What I mean is parents don't tell it like it is. I thought two kids would be easy well not easy but not harder then adjusting to my first. I thought this because most people with kids have at least two and the "perfect" gap is two years, right? But this is so hard, I mean really hard. My 2.5 year old is finding his voice, testing his limits and annoying the living crap out of me. All while I have a little sweet baby who needs to eat and sleep all the time which means she is on me all the time. Both my kids need me so much which is great and impossible. I can not do it all with in everyone's wanted timeline. And forget keeping sain, clean or remembering anything extra. It's not happening and don't ask it! When I voice this I find many who agree and I hear over and over "wait tell she is a year it will get better" but that is 7 months from now! How am I and my kids going to survive seven moths of my craziness? I know everyone does it so there for I will find a way.
I have to admit that I have PPD again. And I am making a plan this time.
1. I am going to give myself more breaks. I joined the YMCA which gives me 2 hours of child care a day. I am going to find a way to get at least one date night a month. And sometimes I am running to the store alone.
2. I am going to look into counciling, and actually go.
3. If I still need more I will use medication
I realized something last Friday. I need to spend more time with my eldest doing fun things we both enjoy. We as a family went to the Y to swim. Well the baby can't yet so she slept in child watch. But E made so much progress and was holding his breath and kicking head down. He figured it out it just clicked! And I was so amazed by him and had so much fun swimming and playing. I felt so refreshed. My relationship with him needed that. Lately our interactions have been bossy, yelling, crying and tantrums. On both our parts. For some reason my 2.5 year old brings out the best of me... At 2.5 :/. But just an hour of fun together made me think about how wonderful and amazing he is. I need to treasure him and now. And there for when I can't see my sweet boy and I have fallen down to his level it is time for us to take a step out and enjoy each other.
I have to admit that I have PPD again. And I am making a plan this time.
1. I am going to give myself more breaks. I joined the YMCA which gives me 2 hours of child care a day. I am going to find a way to get at least one date night a month. And sometimes I am running to the store alone.
2. I am going to look into counciling, and actually go.
3. If I still need more I will use medication
I realized something last Friday. I need to spend more time with my eldest doing fun things we both enjoy. We as a family went to the Y to swim. Well the baby can't yet so she slept in child watch. But E made so much progress and was holding his breath and kicking head down. He figured it out it just clicked! And I was so amazed by him and had so much fun swimming and playing. I felt so refreshed. My relationship with him needed that. Lately our interactions have been bossy, yelling, crying and tantrums. On both our parts. For some reason my 2.5 year old brings out the best of me... At 2.5 :/. But just an hour of fun together made me think about how wonderful and amazing he is. I need to treasure him and now. And there for when I can't see my sweet boy and I have fallen down to his level it is time for us to take a step out and enjoy each other.
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