The Last Minute Mama

Man eating healthy can be so hard! One of my biggest struggles is eating different than my family. If I am really motivated it's not hard to eat different foods, but I struggle with prep for essentially two different meals. I don't want my Littles to eat low carb diets. And heaven knows we would go broke feeding my man if we didn't have carbs on his plate. So this week I have been trying to come up with a way to alter their meal to make it work for me. Our first night I made gluten free Penne Noodles (the Barilla brand in the blue box are THE best). An Alfredo pesto sauce (sounds fancy, but it is in a jar). Some parmesan cheese. And some breaded eggplant cutlets (again this sounds fancy, but they are a few dollars a box a Trader Joe's!).  For my portion of dinner I made a spaghetti squash. Super easy to make!  I cut it length wise (which honestly was the most difficult part, make sure you have a sharp knife). Rubbed it with some olive oil and put cut side down on a...

I have recently come to a realization, I am a procrastinator. As much as I try to be one of those plan ahead people it just doesn't happen. I have tried and tried, even did the whole fake it till you make it thing. Nothing has worked. Not long term. Maybe for a week here and there my life will look planned out and organized, but one little bump and we are back to flying by the seat of our pants. I feel like a failure and spend lots of time wishing things could be different. Talking to several friends I know I'm not alone. I am not the only one who does everything last minute. Today while I was running around getting Halloween stuff (two days before we need costumes). And yarn to make gifts (for a party in a week). And dinner (for a crock pot meal to be ready in a few hours).  I was feeling overwhelmed and like a failure again. Then I had a realization... I have always been this way. As long as I can remember I would run around last minute trying to get stuff done. But I al...