Great Googly Moogly

October 3rd, 2013

This has been some first week into Oct! The Lawyer is really in the early beginnings of puberty and I AM NOT READY. She is 9 and a half! And she is way too fascinated with her sudden sprouting of "buds" and has found uses for some of her orifices that a lady does not discuss...Yep and mom has her head buried in the sand like an Ostrich because nobody's home! Natural events,  yes; dinner topics, no...

Between that, her attitude (hence her nickname), complete defiance of obeying hubby and I, constant picking at her sister, and forgetting the glasses she just HAD TO HAVE I am about up to HERE this week. Work stress with last minute scrambles and responses, an upcoming 4.5 hour presentation and the slides won't go via e-mail, an upcoming trip to do that presentation that is a 6 hour car ride that causes me to get a headache from sitting so long, a mother having an elective surgery in the middle of this...it is a wonder I have any hair on my head. I am getting tense and I have already had my massage this week.

Every day is nuts and making dinner from scratch plus having original ideas and not many repeats becomes hard. I had a hodge podge on Tues b/c we had an after school activity, piano, then a school function to go to. And hubby and I had to tag team it. While I am thankful for him willing and able to do this, you want to be there for both your kids. But we make it work. Dinner was a bust, grab something from a box in my freezer, not my favorite thing to do b/c of all the chemicals to get it box and shelf stable ready, and slap it in the toaster oven. Poor Monkey has to eat hers at the school b/c it was too hot and we had to leave to be at the school on time! But my kids have to eat so it had to work. Hubby and I ate leftovers, actually I don't' think hubby ate at all...

Wednesday was just as crazy with after school Spanish, then Art for the Lawyer so dinner has to be flexible this night. I feed the Lawyer the beloved chicken flavored sticks and drop her off. I go back and decide it is Fried GF chicken, b/c Monkey will eat that; Green Beans, at Monkeys request; and yukon potatoes boiled until soft, Monkey refused these. The Lawyer came back home and declared she was still hungry so she got fed the extra potato. I call that a success b/c of the limited processed things they eat. And I had leftovers!

Lunch has been eaten out almost every day I think...not so good for me. Today I had Chick-fil-a and decided tonight would be a lighter affair. Lawyer had bagel bites (I did try homemade ones and she ate them and thought they were ok but that lost its fun quickly and then she refused to eat it. This kid would make fasting look easy the way she jumps into it when faced with a food she does not like/want!) Monkey had sliced ham from the meat counter, cucumbers, and two pieces of wheat bread. This was her idea of a ham sandwich...not that any of those foods actually touched each other until they were firmly in her stomach! I had leftover chicken and pinto beans and hubby had soup. I call these nights, my fridge and pantry cleaning nights. Makes for less drama and each is happy and I get to clean out the extras.

I always think of that old commercial that Snickers used to have about the old man painting the end-zone before a football game and misspelling the Chiefs (to Chefs) and him saying Great Googly Moogly when it was pointed out. That is where I am this week. After the week I had and the next two coming up, and my constant overload of deciding to home-school, and what stinking curriculum to use...PLUS trying to make sure the family gets a decent meal not full of junk, I am frustrated. I likened picking curriculums to telling a car salesman you want a car and he wants to know what kind, what make, and model and all I know to say is, "I just need a car! I don't know what kind I need!" Decisions, decisions....great googly moogly.
Watch Snickers commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmgice3ieZ4