Nothing too exciting

Grocery Day. Dreaded Grocery Day. I have yet to get myself into a shopping schedule that allows me to go without the kids. Really, they're great to have with me, especially now since they have "jobs" while we shop. My oldest pushes the cart and the youngest loads stuff in. However, I have an inability to multi-task which means things do not go smoothly....and things get messed up.

Yesterday we went to the store, we actually did pretty well staying within budget, I only forgot one thing, which was fluoride mouth wash-no biggie, right?. Not bad....so as I was putting the groceries away, my oldest asked me where something, that I bought her special, was. Now this something was to replace something that I ruined. This something was something that my oldest was being very, very patient about. Then I remembered. I had left it in the cart! So we packed ourselves back into the car, found our cart still in the cart return. But nothing was in it! So we trekked back inside bought a new one and soon after realized it was the wrong thing!!!!! Once we all recovered from the shock of it all, my oldest said to me, "Mommy, it meant a lot to me that you drove us back to the store to get a new one for me." In that one sentence I felt tremendous joy and thankfulness, that she would say something like that, as well as a lot of guilt for not checking things better. So we will try again...sometimes I get really frustrated with myself when I make stupid mistakes and then sometimes I realize those things can teach humility and patience and a myriad of other things.

After that fiasco, the day had to continue. We had company coming for dinner so I had decided to make a pork tenderloin, veggies and salad. I cut some lettuce and parsley, pinched some basil and picked a young zucchini, all from our garden. Next step was to prep the tenderloin, after removing the silver skin, I gave the tenderloin a good massage with some olive oil, s/p and then I seared it on the grill. I then placed some basil in a foil "boat" with a little more olive oil, placed the tenderloin on top of the basil and put more basil on top then wrapped up the boat. I placed it on indirect heat and let it cook for about 20 min until it came up to temp. Next was the salad, it consisted of our mescaline lettuce mix, apple, lemon juice, some chopped parsley and basil. Then onto the veggies, I cut some summer squash and zucchini on an angle, tossed them in olive oil, s/p and placed them on the grill as well, once they were done, I tossed them back into the olive mixture to coat. Finally, it was time to eat! When I had assembled it all onto the plate, it was my very own masterpiece! It looked beautiful! I added a little applesauce on the side to dip my pork in and....yummo!!! The kids didn't care for the parsley, in the salad. Fresh parsley has a spice and harshness to it. I like it in little amounts, put too much in and you'll find yourself secretly scraping your plate into the garbage when no one is looking. It felt great to actually get the majority of our dinner from the garden! To me, there's a special uniqueness that I love, knowing where my food came from, picking it and cleaning it myself. Eating what you have, maybe limited and maybe nothing too exciting but it's so much more satisfying.