Mindy's Non-Adventures

    January has basically been a month of clarity and intentional living at home. What do I mean? Well...we've been at home. No trips to visit friends and family, eating at home most of the time (update below!), and cutting back on our busy-ness in general. It's been good, and as long as life doesn't throw me a curve ball too soon, I think we might even be able to maintain these changes/decisions. Instead of being pulled in ten different directions at once, I've been able to focus on the more important things. Peace has brought me clarity, and that makes me happy.       Sooo...here's the update on our lifestyle change of eating at home.  I admit we've had a few slip ups, but overall, we've actually done VERY well this month! I think we'll end up eating out 6 or 7 times before the month is over. That probably still sounds like a lot to you, but also remember we've had 3 birthdays so that accounts for half! This is a HUGE decrease from our usual...

    Of all the things I have to do every single day, there is one responsibility that is way too easy to pass off on someone else. If you know me AT ALL, you know that our family eats out. A lot. Too much, but there it is. Yes, I know it's expensive and unhealthy. It's also soooo very, very easy! No toddler clinging to me as I try to prepare foods, no kids asking me a barrage of questions of varying topics and degrees of difficulty while I try to remember what I'm supposed to do next. No husband asking when dinner will be ready in a way that lets me know any answer other than "5 minutes, Dear!" is too long to wait.  Educating our kids is a nonnegotiable. I readily admit that I prefer clean clothes to dirty so laundry stays on the list too. Although our youngest will be 2 years old tomorrow, he's not quite ready for an independent lifestyle so baby care continues. Basically, eating out has been the one thing I could drop on a regular basis, and I did. BUT.......