Something Green
Yesterday I had 40 minutes between dropping one kid off at school and volunteering at the other kid’s school. 40 minutes, I could catch up on email, throw in laundry, sweep, mop, dust, get the house clean for the weekend. One issue though, I was really hungry. It was lunch time.
So I let the chores wait and I prepared myself a lunch. A healthy lunch. I took time chopping my lettuce, cooking my fish. I know so radical, all by myself on a Friday afternoon with so much to get done and there I was not only preparing myself a healthy lunch but I sat down, on a chair, crazy I know, and ate it.
We as stay-at-home parents think it is takes too much time, time we don’t have, to prepare ourselves a healthy lunch and then actually enjoy it, instead of eating it on the run. By preparing myself a satisfying, healthy meal I was avoiding being hungry when I picked up the kids, then stuffing in something quicker and less healthy. Forget about the snappy, bitchy remarks that would sneak out of me because of low blood sugar.
We pack our kids’ lunch boxes, make our husbands’ coffee, all with love then we give ourselves the shaft and shove in something quick and tasteless or full of sugar.
When was the last time you sat down to a meal, by yourself and enjoyed it? I dare you to try it.
Something healthy in the cup.