This weekend flew by. I don't know WHY, because it wasn't fun. My husband was on call and spent the weekend at the hospital. I spent the weekend a) cleaning and b) packing and c) cajoling my daughter into helping. I feel like I am making… progress. I was going to write "good progress" but then I look around a lot of things look worse than they did before I started and a lot more things have not yet begun and there is so much I still haven't even CONSIDERED. I have taken five giant bags of stuff to the donation center and filled our outdoor trash can with trash though, so that's something.
This week we meet with our realtor about selling our house and I'm a ball of nerves fretting about what she's going to suggest we do. Her motto seems to be "whatever's best for your family," but also I really want to SELL OUR HOUSE, preferably for more than we bought it, and even more preferably SOON. But not too soon, because we can't move into the new house until late August at the earliest.
I know that everyone who moves has to deal with the impossible logistics of the thing, but THE LOGISTICS ARE IMPOSSIBLE. How does anyone do this?! I don't even have a full-time out-of-the home job, and yet I feel so overwhelmed! The work I do is cyclical, and we are in the middle of a high-need cycle right now so that's fun. Although it nice to have a reason to wrench my brain away from moving mayhem for a circumscribed time every day. Also my daughter's birthday party is coming up (we just ordered the succulent party favors this weekend) (the favors are succulents, as in the little plants, to match the theme), so I will at some point need to make cupcakes and order balloons. Thank you forever to Past Me, who ordered cupcake toppers and succulent-themed decor many weeks ago. Also my daughter and I are going on a vacation, which will be a lot of consecutive days of NOT PACKING yikes, except of course for the time spent packing for the vacation. There's too much to do and not enough time and I keep waking up every morning at 3:00 am and angsting about things I cannot do at 3:00 in the morning, like call around and see if any movers are available during the general-but-not-specific time we may or may not be moving or go pick up some playground mulch for the playground area or water my ailing outdoor petunias.
OKAY I AM FORCIBLY STOPPING DISCUSSING THE MOVE. This is all positive, happy stuff to worry about! I realize that! I am very fortunate that these are the types of problems keeping me up at night!
Food. Let's talk about food.
While I would really rather Not Think about food at all right now, a) we do have to eat and b) it is somewhat of a relief to have to turn my mind and then my actions toward something that doesn't involve cardboard boxes or sorting teeny tiny toys/craft supplies/LEGO into separate piles.
Dinners for the Week of July 17-23
- Cold Noodle Salad with Spicy Peanut Sauce: I saw this recipe and on a whim decided to try it. It's very outside my norm – we don't eat a ton of pasta, and I don't particularly like peanut-related things. But this sounds different and yummy and COLD.
- Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Tortilla Soup: It is really, really not soup weather, but this sounds good and I am in a mode of trying to use up things in my freezer, and I currently have the chopped veggies needed to make this soup and half a bag of frozen corn to use up. Plus, I will have cilantro from the cold noodle salad and I so rarely find ways to use all the cilantro.
- Southwest Salad: AHA, here is another way to use up the cilantro! Plus, I have frozen salmon so I can USE IT.
- Szechuan Stir Fry: Peppers are abundant right now, as is zucchini, and my favorite way to combine those veggies (plus onions, plus broccoli) is in this stir fry.
That's all I can come up with, but I think that's plenty. Hopefully we'll have some leftovers to get us through the remaining days.
What are you eating this week?
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