Sometimes I feel like my life is just circling in around me. When I begin to feel overwhelmed by body just shuts down and I spend a great deal of time being unproductive. After being sick for a fair amount of our winter break Mark and I decided we needed to get a better handle on some things. One of those things being food shopping and the preparing of food. I generally do not mind cooking. Just don’t ask me to prepare dinner on a night after I have taught all day and then run over to the shop to work the closing shift, getting home around 7. That was not happening.
Now we are back to cooking several meals on a Sunday while we are both home. It just becomes a part of our scheduled routine and that works so much better for us. Now Sundays are for laundry, changing the sheets, cooking and making our to-do lists for the shop. Unfortunately, in order to cook, we need to have food in the house. Seriously, I cannot take the time out of my week to shop and Mark is too much of an impulse buyer to do the weekly foodshopping.
Thank goodness for online grocery shopping. I place the order on Sunday, after we spend our brunch time making a list and planning meals. It is working out so well! Mark picks up the order on Monday afternoons at a set time and the food is put away by the time I get home from work. Seriously convenient.
Another way we are streamlining our lives is by ordering our cleaning supplies online from Grove Collaborative. I love that we are able to order earth friendly products and have them shipped straight to our home. We are still struggling with time management and organization both of which have always been a thorn in my side, but we are making progress. What helps is trying to keep school work at school and well, store work everywhere, but I seriously love that part of our current crazy!
