Happy 4th of July

So today was a successful day w/o Diet Pepsi or candy bars.  I also laced up my running shoes and got back on the treadmill. I had planned to repeat week 5 day 1 today however, I got my 5 min warm up then my first 5 min run. This went well. I could feel it in my lungs but my legs were fine. Then my 4 year old got me to the point that I finally just gave up and stopped running. This is a work week for DH so he works even holidays and weekends. I am hoping to try to run again tomorrow. My kids are out of practice for the last 3 weeks I will remind them tomorrow that treadmill time means I should be left alone unless someone is hurt.

I started digging into my WW cook book.  DH came home from work today exhausted and we started talking dinner and I decided to just get up and cook it myself instead of having him BBQ.  While cooking I was thinking about how much he always appreciates a home cooked meal.  I realized that in all our dating years, at a min of 5 nights a week, his Mom would make dinner for he family, including me most nights.  I always have told people that feeding people is the way she shows she loves people. For the first year of our marriage we would come home to find left overs on our front porch from her. DH is her oldest and apparently it was hard for her to let go of that.  So all these years I've know my husband likes a home cooked meal. He used to say all the time, just make anything, I'll eat it. This thought is so foreign to me because I feel like it has to sound good for me to want to eat it.  For the first time tonight I felt like I need to start doing this for him and my kids.  I don't like cooking, I have a very small kitchen. A 1950's galley kitchen I have a total of 5 two door cupboards. But honestly if it's just me in there cooking it is plenty of room.   In Aug my schedule changes for 3 months to where I am off by 3PM everyday and I have a new goal to cook dinner for my family at least 5 nights a week, 6 would be better.  This gives me this month to plan and prep. I have 27 days that I can make a menu board, meal list w/ shopping lists etc.  In Nov I will probably be stuck at work until 5:30 so this plan won't work then but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.