Tonight I cooked my family a really nice meal. DS1 helped me and ds2 played happily in the garden making mud pies while we cooked. It took an hour and a half which is ridiculous amount of time to spend on a mid-week meal with two small children but it was so nice for dh to walk in the door and find a gorgeous dinner and two happy (if not mud-covered by then) children and a relaxed wife. I know its not a big deal by most people's standards who probably do this effortlessly every night but it feels good for me so I thought I'd share it