I love Fall; it's my favorite season! The air becomes comfortably cool, the trees put on a fabulous color show, and it's marching season! Marching season rocks!
The Boy claims not to like marching, but I know better. (I'm the mom, that's my job.) Anyway, this time of year lots of Saturdays are spent in bleachers of various High Schools watching Marching Competitions. What better way to spend a Saturday, than sitting in the crisp air listening to awesome music and watching really amazing shows!
Normally, meals on these days are either fast food or food from the concession stands, it's always been fine in the past, but that isn't going to fly anymore. Now, I have to plan ahead and prepare.
For someone as spontaneous and impulsive as me, that is a difficult thing to do. I'd much rather go with the flow. That isn't an option anymore. Planning is now the only way I can function. *Sigh* Sometimes I sort of resent that!
Today, we gathered the cooler that we'll need and started to lay out a 'travel' menu; food that I can pack quickly and take along so that I'll be able to eat on schedule and I can avoid any unpleasant "low" (blood sugar) moments.
I am learning to adjust my life around our new plan. This lifestyle is so much better for us, so I guess it is worth the loss of spontaneity; but I think a small part of me will always miss the old me.
The new me is not so bad though, I'm happier and more energetic, and I certainly feel better. So, perhaps that is worth the loss of impulsiveness.
I've always had a lot of respect for folks who had their coolers along at competitions.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anonymous and will add that those 'cooler people' always seem to be prepared where as I always feel like I am hanging on by a thread running from one thing to another. I was reading this and thinking, I need to get a small cooler and do this myself!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the support. Today was my first day as a "cooler" person and I felt pretty good!
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