The end of Project Switch

Today is January 31st which means that tomorrow I have to figure out what we're eating.  This past month has been such a nice break.  I think the biggest change we had was Stewart doing all of the cooking and grocery shopping and I washed all the dishes and took care of the trash/recycling.  I managed to make it a whole month without dusting ..... and we definitely need to but I just HATE to dust.  Thank goodness tomorrow is a new month.  Stewart will probably celebrate the change by vacuuming and dusting which is fine by me.  Stewart managed to make it a whole month without ever washing any of my clothes (yes, I really do have that many - and that's even after about half!).  First thing tomorrow, I will do laundry.

Good did come of all of this though.  Stewart has offered to cook more often ... and really cook, not just make pasta.  He found out that he is a great cook.... and that it takes a lot of work coming up with meals and grocery shopping.  I learned that as much as I enjoy cooking for us, coming up with two meals a day/365 days a year is exhausting.  No wonder I serve cereal for dinner sometimes!  A girl needs a break.  I will definitely appreciate the nights that he cooks ... even if it is pasta.

Even doing the dishes has brought about change.  I am very grateful that Stewart washes the dishes when I cook but I learned that it's nice to be surprised every once in awhile and have all the dishes from cooking be washed before we sit down for dinner.  Before I would wash the lunch dishes but dinner was taken care of by Stewart.  I'll probably help out a little more.

But all that being said, I'm glad we're going back to our old chores.  There's a reason why there's a clear dividing line of chores in this household - we're doing stuff we like.

I'll leave you with two pictures of some of the delicious dinners prepared by Chef Stewart ......

Cassoulet with salad

Fettucine with roasted asparagus and
goat cheese.  So good!