Oh man Staley! What is up with men who can't figure out how to put together a meal, clean it up and know not to disrupt a busy mom's sleep?
Go sharpen those sporks!!
My dh has no clue how to put a meal together, but dang he's better at keeping the apt clean than I am! I think I need to clone him.
He does the dishes and tidies the living room before I even wake up.
Granted the man can't sleep more than 5 to 6 hours (and my med knocks me out for 8 to 9 hrs ...sigh..), not much else to DO since we don't have TV reception and the big TV in the living room is trying to die (wow, I didn't know that game had neon colors, what's that green blob doing?).
He is a man of many talents, but cooking is not one of them. He makes food taste disgusting, too salty, too spicy, weird mix of flavors. No idea how to take a the assortment of ingredients and make it into an edible dish. If I don't make something; he buys junk food, goes out to eat or just doesn't eat at all. The last time I left for a weekend to my parent's house, they ate pizza for every meal. Lack of imagination??
Before I go on my solo trips, I make sure to buy a bunch of "instant" foods. Frozen pizza, hot dogs, burritos... stock up on cheese, tortillas/bread.. cereal... Maybe not the best, but cheaper $$ than going out to eat everyday!
And lots of PAPER PLATES! Nothing worse than coming home from a relaxing break to find every dish in the house needs washing!
(oddly, hubby doesn't do dishes when I'm not home)
Good job on stretching that dollar!
I miss Winco.
Cub is very similar layout but they took out the majority of the bulk bins. Rainbow has them, but the "nice" store is crazy busy.. I go to the "ghetto" store and NO way would I buy from their bulk bins! I need to check dates on everything I buy at that location, I'm sure they don't change out the bins to keep everything fresh. ewww.
Winco had staff in the bulk bin area cleaning up and refilling just about every time we walked in the store. Plus it's all CHEAP!!
Now we shop at Aldi's, doesn't take very long to shop since it's a very small store and no choices in brands makes it fuss free. Do you have an Aldi's near you?
I eliminated the feeding frenzy on the snacks, I just don't buy them.
Want a snack? Here's bread, there is the peanut butter and some bananas. Or make yourself useful, take a pan out and make popcorn.
Yes, it takes effort.. it's too much work? well you must not be that hungry then.
This works well for teenagers and clueless husbands. Not so much for younger kids..hmmm,
cereal, lots of cereal!
Oh Alex, ewwww! A nervous puker! That sucks! or blows?? hmmmmm...
I had a set of triplets at preschool one year (Mon-Thurs class) , one would cry, one would quietly hold the crier's hand, and the other would puke. And this would happen EVERY week until Wednesday and the crying stopped, the puker was calm and the hand holder happily played. We would have two days of bliss, only to repeat again on Monday. The mom (from Bosnia) even told us: she cry, she quiet, she puke. Ok then, we won't send her home.
Eventually they all smiled and played happily without the crying and up chucking every week.
Glad you had a chance to take the boys and make some new memories. (minus the chunk blowing of course)
I've been winning lots of tickets to various events this month. The first event.. We went to a Ziggy Marley concert, it was awesome!!!
Not a huge Ziggy fan, but we do have a love for his dad's music. The very first CD we owned was a Bob Marley one of all of his hits. We used to sing the songs to Justin when he was a babe. Heck he listened to them in utero.
Anyway, Ziggy played his own music from a recent album, one song was a freebie on Itunes and I made sure to listen online to the rest of the album before we went to the concert. Great performer, he song a few of his dad's too.. and the whole crowd song along! Nice crowd mix of younger people and 40-60 yr olds. We hung out off to the side of the dance floor, there was a ledge to sit and gave me a perfect view over everyone's head to the stage. Nice to sit and conserve some energy too. Typically I get sore and tired out in the evenings, I was worried I wouldn't be able to stay the whole concert if we had to stand. We had a nice view of the little puffs of smoke from the one hitter pipes too... staff didn't interfere, considering who was performing. If we were closer we would have got a contact high!
Fun night, we walked out.. checked the bus schedule.. crap! We missed the last one! Walked to a different line and figured we would walk the 2 miles to our car. ugh...Moment later, up pulled the bus we thought had stopped running hours before. YES! They had changed the routes because of crime issues at bar closing.. now all the "last bus of the night" lined up a few blocks away from the warehouse (bar) district.
Very light crowds on Sunday, a happier day with families in rainbow and red shirts.
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That's my drink of choice when we go out. At home we buy the good stuff (Disaronno), it's so smoooooooooooth you can drink it straight with a bit of ice and pretend you are in Italy. 
) so I insisted we go to First Aid and had him lay down for awhile. He seemed fine, he had no fever, so at that point (post-dinner) we just headed back to the hotel.
I got a SCREAMIN headache. 
