interesting moment

so I'm shopping today... just a quick in and out to get pastry flour ( don't ask!)
Both boys... fragile timing.... in and out!
I'm showered and even in a new shirt (circa Winners) - feelin' good

I am poised in front of the baking area "pastry flour " in one hand, organic whole wheat in the other. Why I chose that moment to debate my flour alternatives is beyond me.

I think to myself "I should know when or where to use these other flours... I mean chemically they do the same thing blah blah blah" ...(I digress into stupidity there....) Suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder, and my first thoughts are.... is Nolan sucking on the shopping cart hand rail and where is Lars ? ...but no, no alarm in this voice. It is the voice of a frail /elderly women...."excuse me". Now I am thinking "prefect God has sent me a Betty Crocker housewife to give me clarity on the flour issue". As I turn my Betty Crocker welcoming face away from the flour to greet this lovely women.... I stop.... my smile tightens..... my eyes move slowly up from her stomach to her neck and then they meet her eyes (uhhh, a wee gasp from me )

Her eyes are twinkling with glee as she says "don't you just love this fabric" and she runs her hands.... her 85 year old hand over her shirt... MY shirt.... MY new WINNERS "oooh look at me I'm a yummy mummy " shirt.

Now at that moment time stopped. Because in that moment she was delighted that she was so in style and talking to a young woman who oblivously had great fashion sense... and I, I was horrified and in my mind running half naked from the store.

But I simply said "yes, I love it ... and may I say you have fabulous taste?"

Sunny summer days and the two kiddos are finally napping at the same time, this in itself is a feat. So as a re-invented housewife...I am coming along. I have been pre-planning meals a little. I find if I pick 4 or 5 main meals....chicken, pork, tofu, turkey for the week I build around those it takes the stress off " what to make for dinner". I never put meat in the freezer because who has time to thaw! Also, and this is a tip from my mother in law... look at the grocery flyer when it comes out, build your meals of the week around what's on sale. Obvious to some... but not me . Make sense now though! epicurious.com helps too, I simply type in the choice meat and a few thing I have in the ( celery, feta) and voila... I have a dinner plan.
I come from a nutrition background so food it important to me. Kids are eating ( at the table !!!!) breakfast, lunch and dinner. horray!

OK so I am function in the housewife capacity at about...33%, I have been showering almost every other day, for the past 2 weeks so that brought me up about 20% :) An important component of the re-invented housewife is feeling a little sexy ergo...clean.

( I don't even know what "ergo" means...)

The re-invented hw also has obligations outside the house, park dates, music class, library meeting.... and while this may seem life the life of luxury my children are 2 and a half and 11 months old.... so there is a great deal of redirecting ...modelling behavior and seething from the inside while smiling on the outside. I think the main thing is that I am getting there... to the park, music and meeting...I'm there with no snack and a ferocious toddler....but I am there!

So since I last wrote ( functioning at 3% hw) things are better. I was all gung-ho for a week after my last entry (Feb)- then quickly ate myself into a wee (larger) state. Breastfeeding makes you hungry! I stopped breast feeding ( 10 1/2 months)...oh stop booing me ..I was done, and mentally I'm a better mom for it.

Later cats...happy housewife 'ing!