The challenge was, on the surface, an easy one. Plan, make and pack 5 lunches (in a row) for me to have at home. But sometimes the easiest challenges are in fact the hardest challenges. Shayne isn't working right now so I have found myself saying to him "hmmm.... Not sure what I want for lunch today, how about you? Maybe you could just go get a burrito bowl for us from Burrito Jax?" When he isn't home I would just find something to eat, mainly leftovers. But with him the temptation of sending him out to get something that I didn't have to make was too great.
What makes this whole thing even worse is I make lunch everyday for my grown children. So you would think I would just make a lunch for myself while I was making theirs but nooooooo.... Not me.
When I first got the challenge I managed to make lunch for two days straight but then got sick so wasn't really eating. So I had to start again. Then I got (still am) depressed which sends me into a tailspin. As much as routine actually helps me break out of my funk it is also something I balk at the most because my depression has me feeling so out of control and trying to get a rein on it is so hard. This bout is one of the worst I have experienced in many, many years. So while making lunch everyday seems like a small task, to me it is equivalent to trying to walk through quicksand with weights strapped to me while being in the middle of a tornado.
Finally last Thursday I made lunch. Then Friday. Then Tuesday (Monday was a holiday around here... Well for me). I could see the finish line. Just two more days. Then Wednesday. Then finally yesterday I did it. I made and packed my 5th lunch. It was the equilivant of climbing Mount Everest!
When making my meal plan this weekend I am going to add a lunch section and also plan the lunches I will. Some will leftovers. Some will be a simple peanut butter sandwich. But I will plan each one so that I can finish up the month not going back to bad habits.
My challenge to you my dear, sweet friend is this - to do laundry every weeknight this week (if you are home). This includes wash, dry, folder and put away. Just one load a night (if there is enough to do). Let's think of it as an experiment. And that experiment is - what is easier? Doing one load a night and putting it away that night (or first thing in the morning for the boys if you can't do that night) or doing a massive laundry load in one day on the weekend? For the most part both of us do laundry in bulk and we have a pretty good idea of how that ends up which is clean clothes all over our rooms and hardly ever put away properly and feeling annoyed and angry that we spend one of our days off work a slave to the washing machine. So the thought is by doing a load a night allows for better multitasking. As supper is cooking, the laundry is washing. As the kids are in the bath the laundry is sting. As the kids sleep you fold. As you crawl into bed you out your few pieces of clothing away first. That is the thought anyway. What I want to know is which is better? #laundryeverynight
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