It has been a hectic few days! Cleaning the house, getting organized, decorating for the birthday party, hosting the birthday party, cleaning up from the birthday party, homeschooling, kids' activities, my activities... I feel like I have lost my head this week!
Yesterday was tough. My husband left out at 4:00am to get back to school by noon (when he had a class). Of course once he's on the road, I can't sleep. So I was up at 4am as well, after being VERY rudely awakened by a scam phone call on the land line at 2:30am (then we had 2 more scam phone calls at 3:45am and 3:46am - one on each of our cell phones).
Even after my husband got back to school (and called to let me know he was safe), I couldn't get any sleep... not with my 3 kids hanging around. We did schoolwork and picked up but by the time dinner rolled around, I had very little energy (and motivation) left to cook.
Time to take out the frozen pizza I keep stashed in the freezer for just such times. Pizza and salad for dinner last night. Something all of my kids actually enjoy and gobble down like it was a Thanksgiving day feast. It is also something they can fix themselves.
My older children help preheat the oven and place the frozen pizza in the oven. I take the pizza out. Then they can assemble their own salads with whatever toppings they like (usually shredded cheese, cottage cheese, bacon bits, dressing, chopped tomatoes, shredded carrots, and chopped up hard boiled eggs if I have them).
After the super-long day I had yesterday, it was nice to have a meal that my kids could really help with and enjoy at the same time.
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