First of all, I cannot believe it is February already!!!! This year needs to slow down!!

I also want to say to all of the full time, outside of the home-working moms.....how do you do it!!??? Yes I work every day from home being a mom and yes I work during every one of Ben's naps on my billing and dictations for the millions of doctors I now work for (ok so there are only 12...) Anyway, one day a week I actually go into an office setting and do work. At the end of my day (which is usually only 6 hours or so), I am exhausted and can't even think about what I am going to make for dinner and all the stuff I have to do because I didn't get to do it during the day being at work.... I honestly don't know how mom's can do both a full time "work" job and then come home and do the "mom" job for the evening....makes me tired thinking about it!

This leads me into the photos for today....after my "long" 6 hour day, this is what I came up with for dinner..... funny that you can call anything a "picnic" and whatever you are serving instantly turns into the best meal ever!!!


This is exactly what we did for dinner.... a picnic up in Ben's playroom. I put out a blanket and all of his favorites and he thought it was great being allowed to eat upstairs AND on the floor! He kept saying "you are the best mom and cooker in the world!".... I had to laugh, because those were the 2 things that I felt I was the worst at at that moment...


a close up of "dinner". His favorite were the eggs and the ants on a log. This was the first time he ate celery and peanut butter together and because I told him the raisins were ants... they became the best thing on the plate!