Monday Madness

I know the Lord never gives us more than we can handle and with Him on our side, that means we can handle a lot BUT… I have to say I am a whimpy Mom (there I said it). I am struggling with the idea that all my boys are going to begin a new adventure in their life. FOOTBALL. I have lived through basketball, I have lived through soccer, but with those sports I can still yell keep your hands to yourself.

But this is the sport where they make people hit one another. With this particular sport there is so much testosterone around you can cut it with a knife. I spent the first 12 years of my older son’s life saying “keep your hands to yourself”, “don’t hit your brother”, now I am expect to sit on the sidelines and yell “knock the daylight out of him honey”, “hit him hard”. Do you see my problem here. You see when I was growing up I had dreams of Barbie dolls, bows, and pretty dresses. Instead the Lord had body sweat, testosterone, lifted up toilet seats in mind for my life. Sigh..

Anyways, I mention this for several reasons, and I would love your input. I will officially be a Football Mom beginning Tuesday (with practice every night for the first two weeks).

Dinners are going to be partly on the run. Any suggestions for easy to throw together dinners that your family enjoys? I do have a crock-pot that I probably will be using more. You think easy? Well here is the curve, I have a picky eater (thought it would be easy huh? Oh no, my boys love to give out challenges). One son does not eat noodles, one son would look at a casserole and question my sanity, and THANK YOU JESUS I do have one son who will pretty much eat anything I put in front of him.

I really want to feed them a healthy dinner since they will be doing some pretty hard workouts. Any suggestions?

Another reason for mentioning this, please pray for me. Because I honestly see myself as the Mother who runs out on the field yelling “you just hurt my baby!!!”.

Hey I just hand an idea (and if a blog already does this let me know if I am repeating something). Maybe we can do a Monday’s Recipe for Success day. Where I can list your links here and you can post a recipe on your blog.

It may give the rest of us some ideas to use for dinners, etc. Let me know if there is an interest. And I can draw up some rules and begin it next Monday.