not my night

Have you ever made a meal and it just seemed like everything went wrong? That was last night for me. And I did not take it in stride. Normally, I prep my dinner stuff over nap time. Then, once everyone is up and running around, all I have to do is cook or throw the dish into the oven. But yesterday I filled nap time up with other things and then found myself way behind when it came time to fix dinner.

I was making two completely new dishes which probably wasn't my best idea. The one came together just fine. It was the second one that fell apart. It didn’t help that Sam kept trying to put the kids into their seats even though I kept insisting that dinner wasn’t ready. He is used to dinner being around the same time on most nights but, like I said, I was way behind. There were so many things that just didn’t seem to be going right. I managed to burn my minced garlic and ginger, not once but twice. My kids were sitting at the table saying that they don’t want to eat yucky things for dinner. And then, because I was trying to do too many things at one time, I managed to let my coconut milk boil over the top of the pan and all over the stove.
Sam was in the kitchen when it happened and pointed it out in a very helpful manner. I turned the burner off and told him to get out of my kitchen and then yelled out that I didn’t care what any of them ate for dinner. Yep. That’s me, rolling with the punches.
All in all, it was not one of my finer half hours. I’ve definitely had worse but still. However, my boys were so busy complaining about the yucky Thai peanut noodles they were eating that they didn’t even notice Mommy’s little meltdown. And Sam just helped me clean the kitchen up and then poured me a glass of iced tea. I love my family.

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