The older my children get, the more I realize and understand just how important time is. For the past three years I have been running around like a chicken without a head trying to juggle work/family/ and personal life, with little luck. Most nights I crawl into the bed tired and exhausted well after midnight. Many nights - and when I say many I mean like 3-5 times a week- we find ourselves at some restaurant eating someone else's cooking. The chef at 99 knows my name, y'all.. so, not good. All that eating out took a huge toll on my family's budget and diet, and quite honestly I could prepare much tastier and healthier meals myself.
So today while the kids were napping, I made enough food for the next week. I made baked chicken, mashed potatoes, fried fish, pasta salad, pan fried pork chops, stuffing (or dressing as some may cal lit) green beans, corn, broccoli, sauteed zucchini, corn bread, pudding, cupcakes, Iced Tea, and lemonade. I put everything into the freezer, except for tonight's dinner of course, and for the first time in a very long time I felt accomplished. .. we shall see how long this feeling (and the food) lasts.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
90 things in 90 days
After stumbling upon "one year of first" a blog written by NBC 10 on air personality Lu Anne Cahn, I became inspired to step out of my box and attempt to truly "experience life"
When I actually think about it, there are so many things I have not done. I've never eaten pecan pie, never deep fried a turkey, never had a facial, never jumped on a trampoline and the list goes on and on... Up until this very moment, I actually believed that I had not done these things because I had limited 1) access to these "experiences" 2) Funds or 3) time, but now that I sit and think, all I had was a narrowed view of what actually defines "experiencing life to the fullest". While I would love to visit Paris, or bungee jump, or ice skate at Rockefeller center I shouldn't hold my breath as I wait for those opportunities to present themselves. I have to get out and grab life by the horns or whatever the saying is). I need to get out there and live life!
So here goes - everyday for the next 90 days (from now until December 29th, 2010) I will do one thing that I have never done before. It may be something simple, like poaching an egg to someting more complicated like... Well, I don't know, just more complicated. I will enter into every day with an open mind and heart and live.
I'll document everything here, please feel free to comment :)
When I actually think about it, there are so many things I have not done. I've never eaten pecan pie, never deep fried a turkey, never had a facial, never jumped on a trampoline and the list goes on and on... Up until this very moment, I actually believed that I had not done these things because I had limited 1) access to these "experiences" 2) Funds or 3) time, but now that I sit and think, all I had was a narrowed view of what actually defines "experiencing life to the fullest". While I would love to visit Paris, or bungee jump, or ice skate at Rockefeller center I shouldn't hold my breath as I wait for those opportunities to present themselves. I have to get out and grab life by the horns or whatever the saying is). I need to get out there and live life!
So here goes - everyday for the next 90 days (from now until December 29th, 2010) I will do one thing that I have never done before. It may be something simple, like poaching an egg to someting more complicated like... Well, I don't know, just more complicated. I will enter into every day with an open mind and heart and live.
I'll document everything here, please feel free to comment :)
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