The great discovery!

How could 24 hrs go by any faster? It seems that ever since we've brought Josi home from the hospital, each day moves by more and more quickly!
Here's what feels like a normal day for me:

• 5-6am Wake up and start taking care of little girls, moving as fast as I can with Josi (who is always the first one up) in hopes that I can get her to take another snooze while I get in a bubble bath AND multitask by reading this weeks assigned homework reading for my college classes, all before V'leah wakes up and crashes my quiet time by wanting to throw on her bathing suit and jump in the "big one tubbie", as she calls it (she thinks my tub is her own little personal pool).
• Go to bed

That's is honestly how it feels, most days. Where did all of the rest of my day go? girls, Girls, GIRLS! I have two beautiful and loud girls who constantly desire mommy's attention. With the pipes they have, I really hope that at least one of them turns out to be a great singer!

Because of the organized chaos, which is now my life, our dinner meals began to decline and lunch became practically an uncharted territory, aside from the many varieties of Quesadilla's I made for V'leah. The poor kid ate a Quesadilla for lunch almost every day for a month! You would be amazed at the things you can stick in one of those! I would just rummage through the fridge and start grabbing anything I could to stick in the tortillas, add cheese, heat and eat. One variety had mozz. cheese and salami on it, so in desperate attempts to seem like I was giving her something different for lunch one day, I called it a "Pizza-dia". Lame. I know.

For those of you who know me pretty well, you've seen my kitchen and have likely either seen pictures of or tasted my cooking/baking at some point. I LOVE to be in my kitchen and love to have fresh produce on my counter....at least I DID love these things. My kitchen and I have had quite the separation since baby 2 entered the scene, who I might add is a far better trade off! However, I miss my time in the kitchen and I miss providing my family with healthy, delicious meals. (I also miss eating HOT meals, as mine has almost always been cold by the time I've gotten to it)

So this lead me on a quest to start taking back my time. God has given me 24hrs a day. No more, no less. What exactly am I doing with it? In one of the books I'm reading for school right now, "Amusing Ourselves To Death", Neil Postman (1985) writes about how we were once time-keepers, then we became time-savers and we are now time-servers. It is true, I am enslaved to time! But there has to be a better way than quesadilla's every day for the rest of our lives and half plates of some sort of edible something(s) from our fridge that are cold by the time I eat them, for dinner!

BUT ALAS! I found it! My oasis in the desert of unnoticed seconds that tick by each day that leave me only armed with goals and aspirations for the following day. This oasis seems so practical, how could I, A MOM, have never thought of this before? This oasis is slowly becoming part of the routine and new way a life for this household. We have ventured into the world of Freezer to Crock-pot meals!