Planning to Plan!

I bought some small glass storage storage containers at the Dollar Store yesterday. I need to get back on track with my weekly mean prep/planning, and I always feel like things taste so much better stored in glass. Today is Sunday, but, since we don't go back to school until Tuesday, I'll be able to do my meal prep over these next two days. This should give me a bit more time, and won't rush me on this first week back on track.

So, goal for today is to prep as much as possible for this week. I've already planned everything for this first week, and have that on a Google doc. I plan on hard boiling some eggs today for avocado egg salad sandwiches later in the week. I also need to buy a few more lunch containers, and a few more food items at the store today. I have grass fed ground beef thawing in the refrigerator for healthy meatloaf for tonight. I'll need to prep some veggies and fruit for the week. After I do all of this, I really like to set aside a section of my refrigerator for all of my items for the week. This keeps me on track, and makes it less likely one of the other adults in my family will eat the food I need! 

Self-Care

My word for the year 2017 is "self-care". What does this mean? Could it mean something different to each person? Yes, certainly. To me, this means putting myself back on the "to do" list. I was doing so well with this, then life did what life has a tendency to do, and turned itself on its head again. Our oldest son came back to live with us, after a challenging few years for him. We promised to allow him to live rent-free in our house, and help him pay to go back to a community college for a new program. This was pretty much the last chance for help from mom and dad, at this point. 

I didn't realize at the time, how much my husband and I had grown used to living in a house with no children (grown, or young). We had grown accustomed to our relaxed, slower lifestyle- focusing on ourselves, and our relationship. It was certainly a challenge to get used to our twenty-six year old living with us (after living on his own for seven years). I also didn't realize how difficult it would be for me to hold on to myself during this transition period. Between helping our son settle in, and financially rearranging things to support him, it was four months I am ready to put behind me.

Partially because of these changes, and partially because I was purposefully being incredibly lazy, I re-gained ten pounds, stopped exercising, went backwards with budgeting, and I just need a re-set.

What better timing than the new year? So, here goes nothing!