Week 11
Sunday , October, 25 2009





Leftovers


This is the week JJ and I recieved the Lamest Parents in the World award. As you might have guessed from the menu title we didn't cook this Sunday. I knew given my DNA it was bound to happen sometime-- I just wasn't quite prepared for what would ensue when we told the kids. There was a menu planned. Unfortunately we had things we had to do after church and by the time we got home, I had just enough time to make food for a baby shower that night. I quickly realized our special dinner wasn't going to happen. As the kids watched us heating up leftovers from the previous night's dinner, confusion and dismay spread across their faces. Laney and Jordan were only mildly disappointed. They let us off the hook with an "ahhh, but we want to make dinner." Isabel, however, burst into tears. I had a conflict of emotions flooding through my mind as I listened to her sobs. I was secretly pleased to realize exactly how important our cooking episodes had become. I do harbor a slight suspicion the majority of pain was a result of a break in her routine rather than the loss of our memory making. Cynicism aside, despite her weakness for dramatics, she sincerely has come to look forward to Sunday night cooking as important family bonding time and for that I am grateful. I take it as a sign our goals are being achieved. Though happy she cared, I felt really awful for letting Isabel down and mommy guilt set in. But I suppressed it as I hurridly finished the food for the baby shower. She got to help me a little and that made her feel better. I have no photos, because though the thought occured to me to take a picture of Isabel crying, I thought it in bad taste. Sometime I'll make it up to her.