That's kind of how it was with me today. You see, I'm a somewhat organized person.
Somewhat.
Well, I try.
Anyway, before I went to the grocery store earlier this week, I made up a full menu for two weeks and a related grocery list. I bought the groceries on said list. Then I proceeded to lose my menu. Yep, it's gone. Vanished into thin air. The problem with losing the menu is that I now have all sorts of ingredients and cannot, for the life of me, remember what I was going to make with them.
I absolutely needed four cans of black beans. For what? No clue. I found a great recipe for a main dish with sweet potatoes. Where is that recipe? How should I know? The location was noted on my menu. I do have those sweet potatoes, though. I also have some squash and zucchini, but I literally do not have the slightest idea what I was making with them. I remember exactly three meals that I had planned, two I have already made and the third will find its way into my crock pot today. From that point on, we will have our own little version of the Food Network show "Chopped". I will look in the pantry or refrigerator to see what is available and try to make something somewhat edible from what is in front of me. Yum, right?
That little detour is to let you in on the secret of why I started my morning in the way I did. I woke up early and headed to boot camp (pretty much only the 2nd time I got off my butt this week, but who's counting). The house was a lovely quiet when I returned. That gave me some motivation to do something. I saw my handy-dandy notebook and thought I would try to get some longer-term menu planning done. I really hate planning menus. I look through cookbooks and Taste of Home magazines and feel so inspired, but when it is time to make a menu, I grumble and groan and draw a blank. I thought that I could take advantage of an inspired moment to create a menu for a month.
Oh, but when you give Melani a few quiet minutes and a pen, she might just want to plan for a whole quarter.
And if Melani decides she's going to make a rotating quarterly menu, she's going to need a template from a website.
And if Melani searches the world wide web for a new blank menu template (it's not like I don't already have a variety saved in my "Mel's Blank Documents" folder), she might just find a whole new family organization system website: Organized Home
And if Melani has enough quiet time to look through the website at length, she might decide that she loves the whole folder idea.
And if Melani likes the entire family organizational folder idea, she may start to print a good chunk of those 41 pages, some more than once.
And if Melani spends so much time perusing a website and printing tons of pages, her kids just may wake up, hungry, no doubt.
And if Melani has to take a break from her quiet joy of planning to be organized to feed her children, she may get very little planning or organizing done at all.
As I said, I try.
Hey, wasn't I supposed to get a cookie somewhere in this story???
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