Sometimes I try, but cooking is just not really my thing. Day after day, I struggle to figure out what to feed my family because - I admit it - I am challenged in the kitchen. This is just one reason why few things make me happier than a meal out, somewhere like Boston Back Bay Restaurants. For a busy mom who doesn't enjoy preparing meals, needing to provide three meals a day feels like a chore. Wait, it is a chore. Please tell me I'm not the only one who occasionally resorts to cereal or scrambled eggs for dinner!
Every single day, I am on call 24/7. Beyond breakfast, lunch, dinner, and frequent snacks, there's wiping noses and tears, breaking up arguments, helping with homework, diminishing the stuff of nightmares, driving here, there, and everywhere,and the mentally challenging task of thinking about and remembering what everyone needs at any given moment. This one has a birthday coming up, that one has had a cough for a few days, this one is having trouble at school, that one seems to be growing out of his shoes. A mom's work is never done. Not only am I constantly at the beck and call of my family, but I often find it difficult to make myself a priority. I'm always thinking about what they need, while my own needs fall further and further down the list, until they often, ultimately, fall right off.
I try to things just for me. This blog is one of those things. I spend time with my friends whenever I can. I have been doing a pretty good job of exercising regularly. But being pampered is a rarity for me. I get my hair cut once or twice a year and I can't remember the last time I got a mani/pedi. That's another reason why I love eating out. It's not just a break from the mundane tasks of meal planning, preparation, and clean up. It's also about having someone look after me for a change. Someone else has already taken the trouble to plan out a menu with many delicious choices on it. Someone is going to ask me what I'd like. Then someone is going to cook it for me. And someone is going to bring it to me - I don't even have to get up! If my kids are with me, someone else fetches their drink refills and cleans up when there's a spill. When we're done, someone clears the table. I don't have to do it, and I don't have to nag anyone! I especially like fine dining because I somehow feel like a more civilized human being if I have to dress up a little for a meal. I also enjoy exceptional service and really good food. Eating at restaurants is a way of being pampered that is somehow an allowable luxury, because a girl's got to eat.
Do you love eating out too? What are your favorite restaurants?
This is a sponsored post for Vlora. As always, all opinions and views are my own.
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