Dinner With My Baby

Today was day two of the monthly menu plan. I've had to make some adjustments already but that's okay. Yesterday we went to my aunt's for dinner. We usually go on Sunday but we were going to be out of town so it was changed to Monday. The dinner for today was meant to be Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli. I took the chicken out of the freezer this morning when getting The Peanut ready for school.

While getting my lunch ready I noticed a jar of roasted red peppers that I have had in the cupboard for a month or so. I don't know if I mentioned it before but it's a big thing so it's okay if I repeat it: I don't cook. I often have the greatest of intentions, but I rarely follow through. I do like red peppers and bought the jar in hopes of making something with them. So I found this jar and started looking around for things that would go with the red peppers along of thinking of ways to cook the chicken using said RRPs. I chopped them up with some garlic, basil and cheddar cheese; cut the poulet sideways; stuffed the mixture in and popped it all in the oven.

Then I went to grab the girlie from her friend's where she had been playing in the snow for three hours. Even though the house smelled amazing, I was highly sceptical that she would actually like it. I was pleasantly surprised. She LOVED it! We both ate it right up! And while she was eating her lovingly-created-by-her-momma dinner, we had a nice chat. Today was the first day back to school after 18 days off. She had a great day and I loved hearing about it.

Today's promise is to eat dinner everyday with my baby. I know I won't be able to do this everyday, but everyday I can, I will. And we will chat. And I will find out things like so-and-so had a grumpy face in gym class when she was tagged out in freeze tag. I need to know these things, you know!

Today I (will add numbers because it's getting complicated):
1. checked TPP.
2. danced with my kid to Katy Perry's Firework.
3. will go to bed with an empty kitchen sink.
4. worked on teaching The Peanut something new. She tied the shoe twice in her room without my help. Something new is necessary, I think. 
5. blogged.
6. ate off the monthly menu. Dinner was chicken stuffed with roasted red peppers.
7. am on day six of training the kittens to use the toilet. New step in place. It'll be about two more days until the next one.
8. said  the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.
9. will go to sleep by 12:35.
10. went to the gym and exercised for 30 minutes as soon as I took the kid to school instead of coming home and sleeping like I usually do.
11. ate dinner with my child.