First bump...

Just like that...
Derailment. but its not a derailment... just a bump.

Its life. Things happen.

I totally forgot to track my food all weekend. Chaos. I don't even know what I ate half of the time... I spent most of my weekend in the kitchen cooking though...

It was what we call "kid weekend".  Every other weekend the number of kids in our household doubles. We go from two to four.... ages 7 - 12.   Its chaos. And so much fun.

The youngest is a very picky eater. He doesn't seem to like many vegetables (although he is a huge fan of bananas and clementines). Our little girl is 11 and isn't picky at all... she will eat whatever I put in front of her. (ok, she wasn't a fan of plain tofu, but she TRIED it, and definitely liked the fried stuff). Added to my Celiac 10 year old and my vegan 12 year old (and the carnivorous man who loves me infinitely), making one meal that suits everyone is a real challenge!

I pretty much spend my weekend cooking meals in shifts.  Impressively I managed gluten free mac & cheese & hot dogs, regular mac & cheese & hot dogs, vegetarian mac & cheese & hot dogs and vegan mac & cheese & hot dogs for lunch yesterday. It still required the kids eating in shifts so I could clean pots.......

But as I sit here this afternoon trying to figure out what I'm going to make for supper for my vegan while the ham is in the oven for the carnivore, I realize its a GREAT thing that I realized that I hit a bump.

I will be having weekends like this for a very long time to come. At least twice a month. So I need to figure out some strategies to get through them. Its not like a special once a year occasion where I can let it slip and not feel guilty. Its 6 days a month. Every month. 1/5th of the year. Its not like I can just ignore my healthy life 2.4 months of the year!

Yule is the next weekend that the kids are here, so I'm already writing down and planning meals for that weekend. Partly for my own health, but in reality, partly because its a really special weekend and I don't want to spend the whole weekend in the kitchen. So I'm getting my eldest to help me plan some meals for that weekend. If it goes smoothly, I may just do it every kid weekend.... it will make it easier to track!