Crazy Week!

Thursday, really???  How can it possibly be Thursday?  This week has really been a whirlwind.  Monday started off with the usual crazy stuff of getting the kids motivated to get out the door with minimal fights and some kind of food in their systems.  Then I got a call from my mom before I got home from dropping off the kids letting me know that my grandmother had fallen and bumped her head.  Not a little bump either, the entire side of her head has a horrible bruise from the right side of her forehead to just below her eye.  Luckily, she did not break anything, but it appears as though she fainted and we aren't sure why.  I rushed back in the door to throw my hair back in a ponytail and put on a little powder to go over and see her.  In the middle of that, my mom called again, and asked me to hold tight since my aunt got there and was making sure things were handled at the time.  They took her to the hospital and she stayed over night.  I got up super early on Tuesday morning to get myself ready and then get the kids to school so I could go over and hang out with my grandmother for the day.  It took me 2 hours to get to her, but I spent the best day (even under the circumstances) with her.  It made me so sad to leave her then.  She does not live far from me, but it is just far enough to make it hard to see her very often.  I am going to make a point to get there more often though.  I hate that life gets so busy and things get out of your control.  Tuesday was one of those days that I will remember forever and now I want more of them.  Next up, Wednesday...I had a meeting in the afternoon, so that was my focus for the day.  Now, Thursday...is gone.  The illustrator and I had some appointments that we needed to go to and now it feels like the day is gone.  The boys are out of school tomorrow for the start of their Spring Break, so the next week will be interesting!  Hopefully full of good food and fresh air!

(Amazing salad with romaine, green peppers, yellow peppers, carrots, salsa and mung bean sprouts.  I love making the sprouts at home and keeping them in the fridge!  So easy and inexpensive!)

I am sure you are wondering by now...where's the food.  Um, well there really has not been a whole lot of exciting things going on around here as far as food goes.  We have done a lot of quick, easy things.  I hate when we have to do that because you just don't feel like you have eaten all that well.  Of course there is always fresh fruits, salad stuff and snacks, but meal times are always messed up and two times now I have eaten lunch after 3:00.  So, that is when you eat everything in sight until your stomach registers that you have eaten enough.  The fresh stuff is really starting to dwindle down so I am looking forward to a "stock the pantry" shopping trip tomorrow!  I promise, recipes to come...I am really missing my kitchen!!!  Since I am a baker at heart, I need to get back to it!

Do you do the stocked pantry thing or are you a meal planner?  The illustrator and I have a different opinion on this subject, so I am curious how others think...