Aunt Paige came to visit - to meet Asher and to help out with our transition to a working mom. It was awesome to have her here. We didn't do much do to the craziness of a first week at work, but we did hit our favorite eats including DK diner for breakfast (morning - just got out of bed hair/faces).
Check out the size of those apple fritters:
Paige worked her magic with the kids and often had a sleeping (YAY!) baby in her arms.
We finally got some snow. C was so excited that she had to put all her snow clothes on to go play in it. That lasted about 15 minutes as we gathered all the snow we could to make a snow man:
Paige is fabulous. We wish we could have her here full time but alas she has her own life...
We chose a daycare over in-home babysitter this time around for the kids for a few reasons, the biggest one is that Cadie really enjoys school and being with other kids. We really feel blessed to have a new day care open up close to us that is nut-free (big relief) and just felt right. The kids have been there one work week now (3 full days) and they are doing great. C loves her teachers and doesn't want to leave at the end of the day and Asher doesn't know any different. Drop-offs in the morning have been tough for me though. Here is C on her first day of "new school."
Work days are long - the whole family is out of the house by 7:30 and we get home around 5:30. We are ALL ready for bed shortly after. I'm in need of good dinner ideas for these days - something fast that the 4 year old will eat, and did I mention that it needs to be nut, dairy and soy free?
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I have no suggestions. We ate a lot of carryout for a while. We also eat lots of pasta and beans and rice. Drop offs will get better but they always kinda suck.
Hope your transition goes well my dear. Dinner ideas.... just go simple. Quesadillas/sandwiches can be fancied up quite a bit :).
Oh, and um.... whoops.. I didn't take into account your dietary restrictions. Yikes, that would be tricky. A big pot of Lentil Soup that could be prepared on a Sunday night and eaten for a couple of days.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/lentil-vegetable-soup-recipe/index.html
Chicken curry in a crock pot wold be yummy!
That snowman really made me crack up!! We just ended up throwing snowballs (snowfluffs) I didn't know that Paige came it looks like it was fun and helpful for you. Can you have coconut milk, because if you did make curry you could put coconut milk in at the end to creamy it up. Harry and Wyatt enjoy it.
Love your updates. Cadie is so grown up and beautiful! Thinking of you as you make this big transition - you are super mom.
You are amazing. I'm glad Paige could visit and help you out a bit. Good luck with dinner - I can't even figure it out without any dietary restrictions.
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