getting a personal chef... isn't it? Because, somedays I feel like if I had someone to cook for me - or even just wash/chop/peel veggies - this would be some much easier!
Can I whine for just a minute??
It is SO HARD to drive 45+ mins each way to work 4 days a week (I do get to work one day from home), work 40 hours, get in a work out of 40 - 60 mins, 4+ days a week, grocery shop, do chores, keep up with the house, enjoy time with my toddler, pick him up from day care, feed and bathe him, spend time with my hubby, see friends once in a while...
I keep trying to cram more and more into my day. When I cook, I cook plenty to have left overs. I buy a lot of frozen veggies... but the selection is crap. I eat so much frozen spinach, my poop turns green. Every once in a while, I need to branch out to other stuff. But the fresh veggies (which I like best anyways) take time to wash, and chop.
I LOVE making barley stuffed peppers, but the prep work that goes into them is time consuming. I made Cajun Unstuffed Cabbage the other week and it was SO good... but you have to brown meet, chop cabbage, chop onions, open cans, dig spices out of the pantry (all while holding a fussy toddler on my hip b/c 6pm to 7pm is "happy hour" as "they" call it).
And I am tired... and I wish I had more time to run. And I would work less hours if I didn't need the money... I really would hire someone to help around the house... but we have NO MONEY. And hubby, god bless him, does do stuff around the house. Sometimes I have to beat him up, but he does what he can (he works a ton of hours).
AND THEN the weekends roll around and I am trying to cram things in that I want to do with my son... like take him to story time at the library and go to the park and such... those things that I don't get to do during the week.
And now my toaster oven is broken and I have to make a stop after work to go buy one and I have to buy more diapers, which is a different stop and gas and there is no meat in the house...
ok... rambling rant over. I apologize for my whiney-ness. (is that even a word?)