Food for Thought

So last night while I was at work I had an orientee with me and it was her last night on orientation. She took all 6 patients by herself which did not leave a whole lot for me to do. She is a great new nurse and besides checking her charting and so forth - she handled everything on her own! Therefore I had hours to think about life and things (all while my patients were still alive and breathing, don't worry!). I've told Brett this lately several times - I am just not happy with where I am in life right now. And it is not that I don't like living where we live or living in our house, or my job or anything like that. I think it is more feeling so unorganized and just like life does whatever it wants around me and I am not doing anything about it. Does that make sense? For instance one thing that has really bothered me lately is my lack of caring about food around here. Part of that is because I've had stomach issues for the last few months and have to be careful about what I eat or I feel sick (but that is a WHOLE 'NOTHER story people). So I wouldn't care if there was nothing to eat for supper. We had cereal, or just mac and cheese or a Jimmy Johns sandwich (my new favorite thing I think!) or Brett and I would have totally different things to eat, or I would eat before he got home from school and then he would find something else at home here. I was thinking while at work last night how my mom ALWAYS had a home cooked meal on the table - even if it was leftovers, the leftovers were home cooked. Even if she was at work that evening, she made sure we had food to eat. We always sat and ate supper together as a family. Meal time was together time. I think that is part of the reason it has bugged me so much lately. I feel like Brett and I have no together time and I partly blame that on not sitting down together and sharing a meal together. I associate meal time with together time.

So last night at work I looked up a bunch of recipes for things that sounded good and looked fairly simple to make. I'll be honest - some of the recipes I saw scared me because they had so many ingredients and steps. I tend to stay away from those and stick to the real simple ones. Maybe once I get better at this whole food/cooking thing I can venture out more. I also made a list of meals we already typically have at home (taco salad, soup, chicken pasta, etc. etc.) I came up with many different options.

My goal for this weekend: figure out what meals I am going to make next week, and buy the groceries for those meals - and then stick to the plan. Even if that means getting up at 4:00 instead of 5:00 to cook before I have to go to work, I think I can do that.

Well this is a long enough post about this topic! I'll let ya know how this ends up working for me. For some people this would seem like a no brain-er but for me it truly will be a challenge I think. I want to make our house feel more like a home and I think working with our meal times is a good starting point for me.

Happy Fall everyone!!