Back From My Trip To Negative Town

Good Morning! (fake it till ya make it!) 

As I suspected, my test this morning was negative but I'm determined my attitude wont be.  I used up my fussy day for the month yesterday so today has to be sunshine and unicorns.  That's  right, I allow myself one day a month to wallow in self pity.  One day that I'm allowed to be as sad as I want.  Most of the time I'm a blob on the couch in my pj's watching terrible TV and stuffing my face with comfort food like mac-n-cheese and ice cream.  Last night it was McDonnalds and Teen Mom.  Good choices I think.  But that was yesterday.  This is today, so I am moving forward, and I have a lot of fun things coming up to look forward to!

This Friday I'm going to my step-son's school for a parent reading hour.  I love to read and hope to pass that on to him so I'm pretty excited   Let me tell you a bit more about our little Monkey Butt.  I met MB when he was two months old and have been helping to raise him ever since.  Last month he turned SEVEN!  He's just like his father and he makes me laugh everyday.  Even yesterday when I was down in the aforementioned dumps he had me cracking up in the middle of Wal-Mart.  

My Husband and I are very lucky to have a great relationship with MB's mother and he's better off for it.  He gets to have three parents that love him and work together to raise him.  We don't always agree but we treat each other with mutual respect and always put MB's well being first.  We celebrate birthdays and holidays together and have even started some of our own traditions.  If you ask MB he will tell you he has three parents.  He has a Daddy, a Mommy Carrie because he came out of her belly, and a Mommy Larri because she'd married to his Daddy.

Kids are funny that way.  They accept things outside of "normal" without concern or judgment.  MB doesn't care that Johnny has one Mom and one Dad that live together and he doesn't.  Hell, I'm sure he wouldn't care if Johnny had two Moms or two Dads that lived together.  Actually, I think he might be a little jealous of any kid that got to have two Dads because MB thinks his Dad hung the moon.  When do we as adults loose that? That willingness to accept?  

Sorry, I got off track a little.  What I was getting to is that one of the many perks of having three parents is that between the three of us usually at least one can always make it to school functions.  He's a pretty lucky kid.  So Friday I'm going to his school to read books and eat popcorn.  We recently started reading to MB every night before bed and he seems to really look forward to it.  I remember when I was about his age my Mom used to read me the Little House on the Prairie books before bed.  I loved it.  I think that might be where my love of reading was born.  I remember laying in her bed watching the words on the page turn into images of life on the frontier.  I want that for him.

Also on Friday a group of my gal pals and I are getting together for an experiment in freezer cooking.  This will combine several things I love.  Friends, cooking, wine, and a freezer full of healthy warm and serve meals!  From time to time my girlfriends and I come up with excuses to get together for some girl talk and wine under the guise of being productive.  This is one of those times.  The plan is for each of the four of us to pick a recipe and bring all of the ingredients to makes said recipe four times.  The idea is that by the end of the night we will each have four different dishes to bring home and stash in our freezer.  If it's a success we plan on rolling this out to a bigger group.  To be honest, I'm a bit skeptical that we will actually end up with four edible meals.  It seems like a lot of cooking in one night for four ladies hopped up on gossip and booze.  We are easily distracted   Two things are for sure though. One, We will probably set the kitchen on fire at least once and two, it will be a great time!  I am bringing this recipe for Asian Lettuce Wraps: 

http://thrivinghomeblog.com/2010/01/asian-lettuce-wraps/

I have it on good authority that we will also be making mac-n-cheese and cilantro lime chicken.  Yum!  I'll post about how everything turns out.  Maybe I'll get real nuts and take a few photos.

See, lots of stuff to look forward to. And that's just Friday!