Homemade

Having 3 hours of sleep is never a good start to the day. With things like not finishing your coffee or having to work 8 non stop hours you start to see signs you didn't get enough sleep..
For instance, you unknowingly switch your 1 yrs old's lunch with your 2yr old's. My 1 yrs old's teacher said she "didn't want to eat her chicken." Me: "Um, I didn't pack her any chicken." So she showed it to me and said "She looked at the chicken, then looked at me and rolled her eyes."
Walking up and down the aisles of the grocery store with 2 small children trying with all your might to think of the 3 things you came in the there for. After leaving the store with umpteen things and $20 some-odd dollars later and you still aren't sure if you got the things you came in there for.
Then you get home to pay bills and you're so wrapped up in paying the bills you didn't realize that almost an hour and 15mins has gone by. It's now dinnertime and you were supposed to have all the dinner prep done 45mins ago. So now, you proceed with your game plan of Homemade fried chicken, Homemade mashed potatoes, peas and Homemade chocolate chip cookies. Another hour and change later, you finally get to sit down to eat.
You make what you thought was a double batch of cookie dough only to have it melt in the oven, spilling over the pan and burning onto the element to make the entire house smell like it was burning to the ground. Side note-you must double EVERYTHING in your recipe; including the flour when making a double batch. Duly noted.
After all of it, the chicken turned out amazing, the mashed potatoes were especially creamy and those cookies (after you add the proper amount of flour) came out so yummy. We made memories. The first time I made cookies for my kids, the first time they tasted cookie dough (and lived to tell about it!)...
Those memories...those are Homemade.

10/3/11