i had a few posts lined up. i had one about lunch platters. mediterranean platters, fruit and yogurt platters, fix all your picky eating problems and save time in the kitchen platters. i had one about the giant building blocks i was going to make for my kids out of all the cardboard boxes that get delivered to my door weekly. but im not in the mood. i mean, these ideas are totally awesome. ill probably post them eventually. but im frustrated with the whole idea.

im all grumbly over pinterest and facebook and everybody’s blogs giving me and everyone else one more thing to put on the to-do list to get one step closer to raising the most amazing kids and maintaining the perfect gut health and becoming the most toned and entrepreneurial housewife ever. i mean its cool to be working towards something. but at the end of the day, im just genuinely disappointed that im not getting a trophy for all this. im doing it, right? im winning, arent i?! i totally got like eight balls up in the air here guys and im doing pilates now. did i forget to fill out the address section for the insane mama sweepstakes? is my doorbell broken?

all of that is starting to get boring. i mean lets be clear. i not only wanted all this, but i really am curious to see how far i can get. i like always beating my last high score. tonight’s meal will be even more delicious while being even more gluten free…and ill still get the kids in the bath early enough to crack some glow sticks and have a killer lights-out bath-tacular. i do like playing this game. its a great day-to-day strategy. adapt it. abide by it. its killer.

but apparently its working too well. my days are going by too smoothly. im focusing a little too much on all these neat tricks. im growing my own mint for my very own mint tea. im crocheting. and i almost missed the fact that the boys are older now. theres not another one on the way. we can slip out of this buckle down the hatches survival mode and set out adventuring again. no amount of water beads, indoor sandboxes, and perfectly balanced smoothies are going to do it. im thinking we may need to pop some wheels on our old barricade and hit the road for a while.

the great american caravan 2013.