8/2/22 Need A New Meal Plan?

     Things have gotten real interesting, real fast.  With Baby A starting football season on Monday, the times for practice were changed, I guess to make sure they are out there during the hottest part of the day.  For summer weight training, they were going from 9:00-noon.  This was nice, I was able to take him, then come home for about three hours and enjoy my coffee and read and stuff.  Now that football is about a month away and all the football players are supposed to be there, weight training was optional, the times are all over the place.  The plan from the coaches is to have the freshmen work out in the morning from 8:00-10:00am, then the JV and Varsity teams come in at 3:00pm to 8:00pm.  It is not contact all period long, the first few hours are still drills and some weight training, followed by actually sitting down and studying film.  I believe there is also the stipulation that if it is above 100, then they wait until 6:00pm, otherwise, they go outside at 5:00pm.  With Texas weather, I am assuming they will be starting outside at 6:00pm most every day.  I think it was 106 yesterday.

    This is where it gets tricky, Wife does not get home until about 6:20pm, if things went smoothly.  Mijo and I leave the house around 2:30pm, to drop him off and then I head to work.  This means there is no one at home to get dinner started.  We can always eat out, that is not the worst thing, but it is going to be expensive if we do it every day this month.  We kind of have to be quick too, the last two nights, Monday and Tuesday, the boys get out by 8:00pm, but even with finding a place to eat by the house, it is still almost 10:00pm before we get home.  Wife likes to be in bed before 10:00pm, normally, so she is not getting the sleep she is used to.

    I suggested we were going to have to change what we eat, go to more food that can be prepared ahead of schedule.  The crock pot would work, but who wants to eat a hot meal after being out in this heat?  For tonight, I am going to attempt to make some either tuna or chicken salad to make sandwiches when we get home.  It is going to be a hectic and exciting year and I am sure we will get through it like we do every year.