Cheat day

I'm cheating today. It is getting really late, I am getting tired, I need a shower and I'm staring at my almost blank shopping list knowing that I will be doing the weekly grocery shopping early in the morning and I have absolutely no idea what to put on the list. This gestational diabetes diagnosis has just put me so out of whack with things. I really don't feel like cooking these days as it is, and to suddenly have to change up everything is beyond annoying. No more go-to meals that I just always make when I am too busy or too tired to organise what to cook for the week. I honestly can't think what I am going to serve for dinner at all this week, let alone make sure that my husband and daughter have food for their lunches and snacks too. Yet I know without the organisation of a shopping list I'll end up just buying random things and come mid afternoon I'll have no idea how to put it all together to make something that everyone will eat, let alone enjoy.

On top of that I have to also factor in making the cupcakes for my daughters class at school on her birthday, and then organise everything for her birthday party on the weekend too! I feel like it is just all going to be too much for me this week. Right now I have other work I need to do as well to help out my husband a bit with his job. Yet this shopping list is still staring at me blankly as I stare blankly back, and all I want is to demolish some chocolate, or icecream, or have a small glass of Coke. Ugh.

I did set aside some time for myself today to work on the image that is my 'photo' for today. See, the title of todays post, I am really cheating today. You may recall my D is for...Drawing post earlier in the month, that was the hand drawn version of this image, only in that hand drawn version my daughter had a tail and different clothing. This version of the image is for a kind of comic-strip I am slowing getting together - very slowly!

Admittedly, now that I feel so pressured to get everything else done I kind of regret taking the time today to work on this as the timeframe for the comic-strip isn't important at all. Alas, I need to get back to the shopping list now. If I can't sort things out then perhaps my theme for the upcoming week will be 'kitchen disasters'.