Bad mommy!

I suppose I shouldn't feel guilty for not cooking dinner for ONE night, but I do.  I feel like a bad mommy for not providing a nutritious, lovingly prepared meal last night.  Usually, even if I'm not hungry, I know the kids will be, so I prepare whatever it was I had planned and sit and eat anyway (yeah, that there's probably the reason for my weight gain over the last year...).  Last night though, I just couldn't get into it.  I was supposed to make turkey meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans with almonds and lemon and some crescent rolls (out of the tube...eeew, but the kids love them and they were on sale...they're a real treat around here...).  Instead, I combined leftovers from two different dinners:  penne with chicken and peas in a garlic cream sauce and pork kebabs.  I cut the kabob meat into smaller pieces, added it to the pasta with chicken, sprinkled with some bacon salt (which I just got the other day...it's new to me and I had to try it...it has a really funny sort-of bacony, sort-of bbq'd flavor with a hint of dried peppers of the sort you'd find in powdered soup mix...not altogether good, but not bad, either), and nuked it.  My daughter and husband were the only ones hungry, and they said the pasta was good.  My son ate a gogurt and I skipped dinner, but ate a bowl of oatmeal around 9.  Tonight will be have to be meatloaf night!

Go Friday, It's the weekend, Go Weekend!

I finally made a decent dinner: swai (that's a kind of fish...) piccata, roasted asparagus and zuccini, and gnocci with cilantro pesto. It was very nice. The adults (Philip and I) drank a nice pinot grigio, Ruby had cream soda and Gus had Sprite. All around, we were a happy crew. Gus ate his fish, along with some toasted pine nuts. Ruby didn't like the fish so much, but ate the gnocci and veggies along with toasted pine nuts.

I spent a lot of time today looking into some business stuff. I must say, my head is absolutely swimming. It's like information overload. I want (read: need) to do some online business. I must, in some way, start earning some real money. I don't want to have to get a job outside the house (although I'm looking and applying, so if it happens, I won't turn it down...) but we sure could use a little boost to our income.

Before I begin to go off on finances, online marketing and my hopes and dreams, I think I'll call it a night. I've had a couple (well, a few...ok...more than a few) glasses of wine and I need to call it a night.

Hasta...