Tired But Well Fed!

Well, can I just say again how much I love having the meals prepared for me. I wasn't able to post yesterday due to being in the ER for 6 hours and coming home exhausted. Catie was running a temperature and since she's only 3 1/2 months and was 1 month premature, that was pretty serious. She's okay now. After a complete workup, they found some bacteria in her urine (sorry if that's tmi). No temp at all today. Anyway, when we hit the house at 6:30, Nicky, who was incredibly well-behaved all day, pulled a "I'm exhausted" meltdown. And of course Jason started screaming for his dinner. Needless to say, I was SO grateful to be able to sit down to a hot, nutritious meal of whitefish parmesan and baby carrots when I finally got everybody settled down. I think maybe DTG should market this plan less as a diet and more of a convenient home-cooked meal!

We went to the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum again (as a reward since Nicky was so good yesterday). I'm really glad that my turkey sandwich had all the fixings individually wrapped. It's really easy to throw it into the lunchbag-cooler with Nicky's fruit and have that for lunch when we all sit down. Then Nicky and I split the yogurt I kept from breakfast. Oh, I've been using Nicky's baby spoons to eat the yogurt. They're little plastic doesn't-matter-if-you-lose-them spoons. That way, it takes me a while to eat and makes me slow down and appreciate the taste more.

So I've changed our meal plans. It's so easy to customize the plan for exactly what we need. John will be getting breakfast, lunch and dinner for six days and I'll be getting lunch and dinner for six days. I had to add another day as I wanted the special dinners and didn't want to substitute them for what we already had. What are special dinners you may ask? Every delivery (Tuesday and Friday) has a meal that's what I call a little more "high-brow". Meals like Spanish Trout with basmati rice or Stuffed Chicken Mediterranean with wild rice and chocolate mouse. Or the one I'm really looking forward to: Langostine and cheese grits. There's no charge to substitute this meal in for something.

It was recycling day today. It looks like so far the ratio of recyclable to non-recyclable containers is 5:1. Which isn't too bad. I'm not sure why they use the hard black plastic containers for dinner when there's other black plastic containers they use which are recyclable. So while I could wish for all of it to be recycled, I recognize the fact that fast food places and coffee shops go through a lot of styrofoam.

Well, that's enough rambling for now. Again, I hope my musings are somewhat enlightening to someone. If not, well, I've got the cartharsis value : )