Separated, new baby, but still hopeful

[newmama]

Hey, posting recipes in Off topic sounds like a good idea!
And I was not knocking those menu items that we used to make but when you do them week in and week out...it gets old!

BUt tonight's dinner was kind of bland...it was missing a sauce or something. The tandoori chicken and the chickpea cakes were really yummy and pretty easy to make! The lentil salad was not good.

One of my wishes for recipes in cookbooks is that I wish they would post good ideas for sides to go with main dishes (i.e. serve with ___)

Tonight's update: not much. Poor S has been sick so we texted a lot about it (necessary). WH arrived and noticed the mess in the kitchen, asking what was for dinner. When I told him he said it sounded fancy!

Then I worked out, cooked dinner, and warned WH that it might be a little odd and that the lentil salad was not good. He still tried everything (so not like the H I knew) and even put the lentil salad on top of the chicken which was on top of the chickpea cake. He suggested using this chili sauce we had for a sauce. It was all right. He said it was pretty good but didn't clean his plate! Still, I thought it was nice that he tried it all. And honestly, sometimes even the cook can admit the food wasn't that good.

So as we ate, The Daily Show was on and the topic was Tiger Woods! Yikes! So I tried to find something different to watch (pretending not to notice the subject matter) but there was nothing on! Luckily I went to our DVR and found a show that both of us liked and neither of us watched before.

Then I got up to clean and he rocked S to sleep, then when I returned, I surfed the net on my laptop and didn't interact much with WH. He put S to bed, came back downstairs and we discussed S's health a little bit longer. All in all, I still managed to only share the same room with him for 30 minutes max! Woo hoo!

Now tomorrow is his day off and we will be going to lunch at the hamburger place. My goal is to be distracted at least when he is here. Again, it is tough to fill 8 hours with tasks that keep me out of the house so I have to modify this a little.

So, he will arrive between 7:30-8. I will be on the internet or reading a book (my cook books?) or something.

8:30-10:30 will consist of working out and getting ready.
10:30-11 I can clean a little before we go
11-12 we will go to lunch
12-2 I will mop, then vacuum
2-3 I will go to the store

gotta run!