Some days just don't go as planned...
You know what I'm talking about! I plan my days to go something like this: enjoy a hot cup of coffee in quiet solitude and after throwing in a load of laundry have a long, hot shower while singing along to the newest Ed Sheeran song. I get myself ready and out the door to my dream job within the hour and after work will enjoy delicious ethnic cuisine for supper, leaving the dishes for my husband to clean and head to bed early with no worries in the world.
BUT THEN I REMEMBER...I'M A MOM!
Obviously, most days my coffee is cold before I get to finish it, or it gets cold by the time I throw it in a travel mug, get to work and have a chance to drink it. Laundry does not get done before I go to work and my shower, though hot, is certainly not long. I have THE pickiest children when it comes to food, along with a picky husband and all the "easy one-pot meals" I can find on Pinterest NEVER work for my entire family. My husband is usually running my son to hockey practice so I'm more often than not left cleaning up after I made 2 (sometimes 3) different things to eat for supper. I always worry and my house is always a mess. I'm not kidding...it is ALWAYS a mess.
I have clean, sometimes dirty, laundry in baskets scattered around the house. I dream of having this robot vacuum but my reality is having crumbs on my bare feet, even though my floors have already been swept today and still need to be scrubbed.
I am the mom of two awesome, sometimes very frustrating, children who are 12 and 7. My mornings are hectic and no matter how many times I tell myself to remain calm, sometimes I yell. I try really hard to prep meals the night before but we're usually throwing sandwiches, crackers and that "one" treat into open lunchboxes as the kids are being thrown out the door. In all honesty, this is my reality. I have some awesome meal prep containers that I have used, and still do on occasion, but for the most part enjoy a delicious meal made at the school cafeteria (I'm also very thankful for her hot coffee).
Both kids are involved in sports and other extra-curricular activities, with my son's hockey and competitive soccer taking up most of our "free" time. I know, I know, enjoy the little things. While I do, I also find it exhausting and hard to be "in the moment" all the time but am working on it.
It's funny because as busy, crazy, and broke as I am I wouldn't change a thing. Just because some days don't go as planned, I'm going along for the ride and we'll see where it takes me.
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Nice to know I’m the only one feeling this way! Also buying the meal prep containers TODAY!
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