Super Mom!

Its a bird, its a plane, is SUPER MOM!!

okay not really, but last night was a chore. . .I know many moms deal with so much on their own on a regular basis but I am SPOILED in that I have Charley there doing so much.

Last night, I impressed myself though. I came home after working over an hour late, grabbed a beer and sat out with hubby and chatted. Then he got a call -I hate when he is on call. So he took off and I started making dinner.

This is our first week that I have done a menu and everything for the week. . with the new house and higher rent, we have to save as much money as we can so eating out during the week is a no go.

I picked a few recipes that I though Charley would love. . .night before I made a homemade beer cheese soup that was good, not spectacular, but good, but it took me over an hour to make.

Last night was a yummy meat loaf made with beef, pork sausage, and over a pound of cheese. Anyway, I start making the meatloaf, which of course takes much longer than I thought it would what with fresh homemade bread crumbs, chopped onions etc. Of course, Zayden is REFUSING to cooperate, he stands at my feet pushing on me in hopes that I would pick him up.

Finally I put him in his highchair and fed him dinner while finishing up my meat loaf. I get the meatloaf in the over about the same time Zayden decides he is done (Read, lots of "all dones" coupled with food being thrown around my kitchen) I get the kitchen cleaned up from my disaster and now the kids, get him down and we (I) decide to go for a walk --instant happy kid.

We walk all around the neighborhood for about half an hour, come home, Charley is still not home and the meatloaf has another 40 minutes. Pop kid in shower, get teeth brushed, hair washed, medicine on face, pjs on, even make bottle and start getting him to bed. Thankfully Charley came home after about 15 minutes of rocking him and him not wanting to sleep cause he wanted dada. hand off kid, go make mashed potatoes and finish dinner.

So yeah, most anyone has this as a normal day but to me, I even impressed myself!