My Brilliance is Blinding

The lessons just never stop, do they? I suppose that's a good thing. I would hate to think that learning simply stops one day. But why am I so stubborn that I am just now learning some that would have benefited me YEARS ago have some evaded me until I hit my 50s?

And then there's the fact that I'm still not practicing some of the lessons--apparently one lesson is that learning a lesson is not the same as applying the lesson.

Some of you may know what I'm talking about. Others of you may be members of the group of people who already know everything and do all things right all the time. Good for you.

I've learned that it's important to 'gowiththeflow' especially if you have kids. And to listen to my woman's intuition. I've learned that I don't have to control every single thing in life. And that men are going to act like teenage boys their entire lives.

Then there are lessons like the grand ideas that pop into our heads and we get so excited and get started and THEN realize that, although the idea was a good one, the time that is involved is ridiculous and there's either no time to finish or it becomes all consuming. Yeah. That's the annoying lesson of today.

One of the gifts I gave each of the lovelies for Christmas was a scrap/cookbook. They are just so cute. I found them at the store where I always spend way too much money, I swear it's like I go into a stupor when I walk through the door Michael's and decided to fill them with all our family recipes and the new ones that I have discovered from our healthier diets--all the gluten free tips, and sugar free substitutions, etc. I am also including basic cooking tips--at the bottom of the traditional recipes, I am writing about how to make the dish healthier. Some pages will even have step by step instructions because not all the lovelies know their way around a kitchen (coughBreezycough and coughcrunchyricearoniDeaniecough)

I wondered if I could use the MyMemories software to make the cards and some of the pages (not all the pages because I want to hand-write some of them). So, I am making these:

And these:

Yes, I have discovered that this brilliant idea has turned into a major pain in the ass project of the time consuming type. I have also discovered that we have about 20 bazillion recipes and that writing every single step from how to put water in the pot to how to take the food out of the pot is CRAZY.

But I also realize that when we do something like this for our children, it will be so worth it. When I'm no longer here, they will look at their mom-made cookbooks and remember so many wonderful kitchen/cooking/baking/eating family times. They'll laugh over the little mom-liners that I've included on some of the cards/pages and they'll share their memories with each other and their own children and husbands.

Not to mention the fact that I am enjoying my own walk down memory lane as I go through the family recipes and remember my childhood times in the kitchen with my grandmother, mother, and aunt.

So, is it taking a freaking crap ton of time? Yep. Do I ever wish I'd stop having all this all consuming projects? Yep. Will I stop? Nope.

It's for the kids. And when it's for the kids, we moms just do it.

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