Since our boys were born 13 months ago, we've gotten into the habit of waiting until the last minute to figure out dinner. It goes something like this:
Me to Husband: "What do you want for dinner?"
Husband (over the
phone from work): "I don't know."
Me: "Humph."
Husband: "What?"
Me: "Why can't YOU ever figure out dinner for once??!!"
Husband:
"How about pizza?"
Me: "Fine."
Lather, rinse, repeat. I would get so annoyed that this was an issue yet again and that no one ever seemed to have a better answer for dinner. And it has wreaked havoc on our bank account, too.
So, July, I declared a no takeout or restaurant month. Today is the 13th and I have lived up to not only no takeout but, I have upped the ante to include a requirement of at least 70% scratch made meals. A recipe for the impossible- if you'll pardon the pun- when you consider that most of the last year's meals were considered homemade if I cut the rotisserie chicken from the grocery store myself.
But, it's going just fine, so far. So much so that I wonder if every month should be a challenge month. They say it takes only 3 weeks to form a new habit. I have lots of habits to undo and, maybe I can undo them one month at a time.
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Welcome to my blog on becoming a Modern Housewife. It will be a journey for me since I am not a natural at these things. I thought, when my children were born, that I would be going back to work after a respectable 3 months and just keep on keeping on. But I just couldn't leave them and, now, I am finding myself in a new "career" making a home and being a Mom and Wife.
