Cooking For Kids @ MindSay

Seriously.  Go get a calandar, for those who know me, and mark it on the calandar that I apologized to Randy last evening.  I am honing in on my time of the month.  I don't get bitchy or extermely moody during my time.  On my cycle, I get tired and crabby but not bitcy.  The week to two weeks before my cycle I get down right nasty bitchy.  Worse then I ever am normally.  Well we can tell I am in that week or two weeks now.:D

I snapped for absolutly NO REASON on Randy and the kids yesterday afternoon.  As anyone knows with kids, you can clean and clean and clean your house and NEVER will it look cleaned.  You can wash and wash clothes and NEVER be done with laundry.  And I looked around my house yesterday and said FUCK IT!  I was soooooooo tired of cooking and cleaning.  Definatally got full on Spring Fever now.  Yay that is my excuse! 

Picked hte kids up from school and lectured them on the fact I am tired of cooking and cleaning for their ungrateful asses.  The kids must have known I was getting close to snapping because no smart ass remarks and they did minor things for me when we got home.  Before we left for CCD class last night (I had a stupid parent meeting while they were in class-that put me in a BAD MOOD just thinking of dealin with one of the nuns and some die hard catholic parents) I called Randy and point blank said his ass was leaving work somewhat early tonight because I had it with cooking and cleaning.  Basically snapped at the poor man for no reason what so ever.

Put him in a nasty mood himself:D  My work was done really.  But when I walked in from CCD class with the kids, Randy had my kitchen cleaned back up, the dinning room, and living room pretty much done, and a load of laundry going!  Not to mention, instead of making a meat loaf or burgers like I told him to wiht the burger in the fridge, Randy went out and got a package of steaks, a package of herbed garlic taters, and a package of green beans and some of my smoked bacon to chopp up and put in the greenbeans with butter!  You know that put me in a good mood and got me all horny!  And if you didn't read my one blog about what makes a woman horny go back and find it and you will realize why it made me horny to see a clean house, and a man in the kitchen!:D

I decieded that I did snap on the poor defenseless man for no reason and it really wasn't his fault that I have Spring Fever so I said sorry.  He stopped in the middle of chopping up the onions and shrooms to saute for hte steaks and asked me if I had a fever.  I shockeded him.  I apologize grudingly for things I know I was in the wrong about but never about the whole household shit!

After that we had a good evening, Randy took over with the kids and DeLaney got spanked for the first time in about 6 months for being a lil pig.  When Randy cleaned out the living room he found tons of her shit she was stashing behind my couch and has heard me constantly telling her to get out of my living room.  Then the kids went upstairs cleaned their rooms and procedded to use their new prank book and set up tons of pranks.  Randy stayed up longer than 8:30 since he has today and Friday off.  I am letting him sleep in.  Mark that on the calandar also.  Usually on his days off in the middle of the week, I make the man take the kids to school.  I am being a nice wife again.  I figure he can take the kids to school on Friday!:D 

I'm helping out with watching my nephews this week and I'm tired of the huge expense my brother spends on taking the boys out every night.  Their mother also is tired of hearing about how often Mark takes them out to eat.  My nephews like simple meals like mac and cheese, hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, and tacos.  I want to broaden their interest in food.  Josh (my eldest nephew, age 10) likes chicken fried rice (which is about as broad as his taste can stretch right now) and Nick (age 9) loves noodles, but if I mention at any time some sort of exotic (to them) dish, they make those "icky" faces and won't try it.  How can I get them interested in new tasty home cooked meals? 

I want to come up with ways to:

1.  Spend less money by not taking the boys out to dinner.

2.  Get them more accostumed to eating home cooked meals.

3.  Help them get interested in other types of meals that are not too weird sounding to turn them off from trying out something new.

4.  Cook meals that are simple and fast that won't require me to spend too much time at the stove.

5.  I also want to cook with less fat and don't want to fry much.  The boys need to start to learn how to eat healthy.  Plus my brother and I could stand to lose some weight, too!

Please reply with all your ideas.  I'm not big on cooking, but since I haven't done it in a long while, I want to explore.  I just got out of living in a studio apartment where I couldn't do much cooking because I didn't have a stove.  Now that I'm at my brother's, we actually have a kitchen to play with.  I discussed things with my nephew's mother, but she just told me "I'm sure they'll like whatever you cook for them" -- she wasn't all that helpful right now since she's busy with their two year old sister!