Oh Monday. I have a love hate relationship with Mondays. I love all the things we do during the week, but I also miss having a few days to get up as we please, or in my case as my small children wake me up. Still more pleasant than an alarm waking me. Monday if you follow the Flylady is the day for the home blessing hour. Honestly it takes me all day because I do everything as I can not just in the hour. I also do it with the help of a 3 and 1 year old. I don’t want to discourage them from wanting to help, but it does take much longer. It’s clean sheet day for me. No matter what else I get done I love to do my sheets on Mondays. I don’t love it after the 4th trip downstairs to switch the laundry, but the feeling of clean sheets is the best.
I have debated changing the day since Mondays can be kind of busy. We go to a playgroup, and sometimes another activity. Then my son has an activity after dinner, sometimes one after school too. So it’s a rush. But no matter how many times I’ve tried  to change the day I do it Monday seems to stick. It ended up less of a rush this particular Monday. My 3 year old woke up not feeling so good, at almost 9 am! Way late for her. No fever, but I knew sometime was brewing. We seem to have the best luck preventing big illnesses by just laying low the day it starts.  We spent the morning watching movies. By the time playgroup was starting she was running around, I probably could have gotten us ready quickly but I decided to use my better judgement and just sit this one out.

Lunchtime came and I had no idea what I wanted to make. I have been trying to plan lunches not just dinners, but I had forgotten to. Nothing looked appealing. Then I remembered these nachos that I saw a recipe for. Pork rind nachos. Now I don’t like to eat pork rinds out of the bag, but they add a great crunch to recipes. I mentioned it to my husband and we decided to do that. I looked up the post I had seem it on, showed what was on there for toppings, but not cooking instructions. I looked up a few recipes, but ended up just winging it. I did however keep track of the ingredients so I could do it again if we liked it. Good is an understatement. I think I could eat those daily. They were crunchy and a good size amount so there was the enjoyment of eating. Also I think since it was a finger food it reminded  me of snacking, something I really miss. I would say this recipe was a self care win. Something I wanted without doing any harm.

I wish my afternoon went as well as my morning. I took my daughter to the grocery store and we picked up a few things we needed . We stayed on budget and I was excited. A conversation between my husband and I sparked me to check out the prices on some things and we found a way to save almost $400 a year… a total win. However the afternoon ended up a little stressful. We’ve been waiting to hear about something very important for our family, we didn’t hear what we wanted to hear , but rather more waiting. I think one of the hardest parts of being a parent is being really stressed and not being able to show it. Little ones need to be feed and cared for. Even my bigger one needs care, and not to be stressed about the things his parents are stressed about. When I’m stressed I love to almost non stop talk, my husband on the other hand needs quiet… and since the stress effected him more than me I needed to try really hard to respect his need for quiet. As the night when on things got better, but it got me thinking about a lot of things. Change can be good, hard but good, and maybe soon some changes need to come. I decided to give it a month, not to react based on emotion. We will see how things progress. For now I am giving myself a new challenge. Lately when I feel out of control I give myself challenges to keep myself busy and be productive at the same time.  I am going to see how frugal I can be while still having bellies full of healthy food. I decided to document it , down to the last detail. The cost of food, the number of meals, and how I can stretch things. I will practice this week and starting April 1st this will be my new challenge, and probably something new to write about.