I have dubbed this season of motherhood the 15 Minute Season...

As in, if I want to do anything... like anything at all, I get 15 minutes before I have to move on to some other mini-crisis.

It's totally okay. I have a lot of peace about the 15 Minute Season once I recognized it for what it was...

Kinda like diapers. They are a season. They are part of motherhood but do not begin to encompass motherhood.

Dinner is part of the 15 Minute Season. I love to cook but can't seem to find the time to make meals that do not include lunch meat of some variety.

I tend to either OVERPLAN our meals and fail miserably. (The vegetable drawer science experiments are giving me a guilty conscience.)

Or NOT PLAN at all... thus, the lunch meat. (Please tell me I am not the only person who has this problem!)

But when I finally accepted this is just a season I'm in right now, it was a relief. Like a BIG EXHALE.

It helps to have a really smart mom who reminded me that while I am complaining that nobody will pick up their shoes (and the dog chewed another pair.) She misses the shoes on the floor from the last time her grandkids visited.

I get it. It took me a minute. But I get it. One day I really will miss this time.

I just created a recipe book of 15-minute recipes --> because I needed them. Just in case you need them too.

I really need easier recipes so I can spend more time getting lost with my kids and less time stressing about what to feed them. Because I can't keep up with my previous expectation of what "family dinner" is supposed to look like.

My new expectation is good food in less time and more laughing around the dinner table.

Sincerely, thank you for being a reader. Hit reply, and tell me about the season you are in right now. What would make it easier?

~Cynthia

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