Best Laid Plans

What a laugh! Sit by the fire and listen to music and read while sipping on a Chai Latte……right. When I got home from work the men folk were circling the kitchen with their fangs out. They had kind of a ‘feed or be eaten’ look in their eyes…. For some odd reason those words from Proverbs 31 started screaming in my head “she gets up while its still dark and provides food for her family”…seriously??? so I was compelled to scour the freezer looking for something to appease their ravenous appetites. I cooked things no woman trying to lose weight should ever have to cook – let alone inhale…perogies smothered in butter and onions, green beans sautéed in butter and sea salt, sweet and sour meatballs….Oy! Now I find myself cleaning the stove top, the kitchen and doing the dishes – who knew you had to use that many pots and pans to make a simple meal and I am stuck in the kitchen with the leftovers…quick into the outside fridge. “She watches over her household and does not eat the bread of idleness”….well she doesn’t eat bread at all if she knows what’s good for her…seriously do you think sitting by the fire, reading and listening to music sounds like idleness??? Why is it haunting me? Lucky for me, Mike did go out to Okotoks to meet a friend for coffee and the kids are bailing to go to a movie so I will have the house to myself….so I WILL take that bath even though my hands are already pruned from doing the dishes. I’ll use the water when I am done to scrub the tub that way it won’t be considered idleness. Best laid plans and all that.

Repost from March 2014