Monday, October 31, 2011

Meal Planning Challenge ~ Week 6!


Linking up for Week 6 of the Plan It - Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!


As in the past, I'm linking to recipes where available! :)

Monday - Poppyseed Chicken & corn
Tuesday -Homemade Chicken Primavera Pizza (from an old E-mealz meal plan, no online recipe, sorry! But it's really yummy. In fact, here's a pic from last time we made it:

Wednesday - Chicken Divan with Garlic Bread & Mixed Veggies
Thursday - SUBWAY sandwiches on the way to worship team practice
Friday - Breakfast for dinner. I'm thinking french toast??
Saturday - Chili Mac! (Yay for super easy lazy meals in the meal options!)
Sunday - Dinner at MIL's house

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Meal Plan Monday - Week 5!


Linking up for Week 5 of the Plan It - Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!

Monday - Nachos & veggie salad
Tuesday -Spaghetti & mozzarella breadsticks & mixed veggies
Wednesday - Pizza Soup & garlic bread
Thursday - SUBWAY sandwiches on the way to worship team practice. :)
Friday - Dinner @ our friend Sara's house! (This didn't happen last week, so it got bumped to this week!)
Saturday - .....oops. Not planned yet!
Sunday - Dinner at MIL's house

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Meal Plan Mondays - Week 4 of the challenge!


Wow! I can't beleive it's already week 4 of the Plan It - Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!

I went on a weekend trip that I all but forgot about until Thursday afternoon... and Ben completely ignored the meal plan while I was gone (Friday & Saturday night). He made himself & monster simple stuff like grilled cheese sandwiches instead. :) So, we still have the ingredients from a few of the meals we were supposed to make over the weekend... they just get bumped forward to this week and we save more $$ on thie week's grocery budget! Yay!

Monday - Chicken Alfredo Lasagna & Broccoli
Tuesday - Tater Tot Casserole with cold veggies & ranch dressing
Wednesday - Lazy Chicken & Potato Bake & "Kitchencraft Demo veggie salad" - this salad is amazing! A bunch of fresh veggies (red cabbage, zuccini, carrots, squash, celery, etc) sliced up and tossed with raspberry dressing. Yum!
Thursday - SUBWAY sandwiches on the way to worship team practice. :)
Friday - Dinner @ our friend Sara's house!
Saturday - Hamburgers & baked beans
Sunday - Dinner at MIL's house

Looks like it's going to be a super easy week this time! Yay!

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Meal Planning Challenge ~ Week 3


Monday - Slow Cooker Chicken & Dumplings & rolls (got bumped forward from last Saturday)
Tuesday - Pizza Casserole & sald
Wednesday -Easy Chicken Pot Pie (double recipe) & mashed potatoes
Thursday - SUBWAY sandwiches on the way to worship team practice. :)
Friday - Chicken Alfredo Lasagna & broccoli
Saturday - Hamburgers & baked beans
Sunday - Dinner at MIL's house

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Wordless Wednesday {But With Words} ...on Thursday

  Linking up with Rachel @ And Then, She {Snapped} for wordless-Wednesday-but-with-words.

Except I forgot to post it on Wednesday. So I'm doing it today instead! Can you forgive me?


I finally took 18 month photos!
Behold, Monster's hair. Those gorgeous reddish curls!


 I love that hair. But, I think I may be coming to terms with the idea that we should probably cut it sometime. Maybe even sometime before the new baby comes - which means within the next 7 weeks (AAAHHHH! How can I be that close to my due date?!). I am afraid to chop off all the curls, so we will probably keep some curl. Just trim the whole thing up and make it a bit shorter on the sides & in the back.
I'm just not ready for him to look "grown up", which normally happens after that 1st haircut.

So... I'll avoid it for a few more weeks.
:)

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Things I've Been Meaning to Do - October!

 Wow! Another full month has gone by already?! Crazy. And with the new month brings a new list of things I've been meaning to do.
{Linking up with The Lazy Mom}

1. I've still been meaning to buy some plastic storage bins, so I can put all these bags of baby clothes into them.

2. Frame & hang this picture. It was made by my step-dad's great-grandma (I think?) who painted lots of pictures. A bunch of random ones were kept by a distant family member, who passed away recently 2 months ago, and gave all the paintings to every great-great-grandchild in the family. And even being "just" a step-child, I was included! This will go perfectly in our master bedroom. But it's been sitting here on the floor of our room since we got it...



3. Take Monster's 18-month photo. Thankfully I'm not too far behind on this one... yet. He just turned 18 months on the 1st of October. But I haven't taken a monthly photo since he turned 12 months.

I have a good excuse for that, I really do! The outfit he'd been wearing didn't fit anymore. Remember the outfit?
 When he was tiny, it was too big.
Then he got bigger, and it was too tiny.

So naturally, the right thing to do was completely forget about taking monthly photos for 6 whole months. (oops) But maybe in the end, it will seem purposeful? I mean, 12 and 18 months are the big 'birthday months', and nobody really cares about 13 months or 16 months... right? Right?! 

But now he's 18 months old, and I am going to take an 18-month photo. Hopefully I do it this week!

(Oh, and what should he wear?)

4. Post about going to the Fair. We went to the Puyallup Fair last year - and I put together a nice blog post about it. Well we also went this year - 2 weeks ago. And I started a post about it.... but never added pictures. Or finished writing about it. So maybe I'll actually finish that post sometime this month and share it! We had lots of fun. :)


Well, that's all I can think of for this month's list of Things I've Been Meaning To Do! Do you have a list like mine? If so, please share, and link it up with The Lazy Mom, too!

 
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Plan It - Don't Panic: Week 2!

Wow, I can hardly believe a whole week has gone by, and it's time to post the next meal plan!
On the other hand, I can't believe it has only been 1 week since the last meal plan was posted. A lot has happened in our worlds! (In addition to the normal stuff, we also did 2 interviews with potential new childcare providers, a day at the zoo, and went to a baby shower! Whew!)
 

Yet, even with the super busy week that we had, I managed to stick to the plan and make a homemade meal every nigh... except for Sunday - but as I explained last week, it's our weekly family dinner at Ben's mom's, so I'm off the hook. ;)

Hopefully this week goes just as smoothly! So without any further ado - here's the plan!
Again, I included links to the recipes that have them, in case you're interested in making any of these yourself!

Monday - Tater Tot Casserole & corn
Tuesday - Easy Baked Ziti (with Ricotta in place of Cottage Cheese) & garlic bread
Wednesday - Baked Potato Bar
Thursday - Pulled Pork Sandwiches & mashed potatoes
Friday - "Date Night" at the marriage conference we're attending - Yay! 2 nights off this week!
Saturday - Slow Cooker Chicken & Dumplings & rolls
Sunday - Dinner at MIL's house

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Motherlove Herbal Company Giveaway ~ WINNER!

 There were 45 entries in the Motherlove Herbal Company Giveaway and Random.org chose...



Entry #40.... Congrats simplymerry

You have been emailed, and have 48 hours to respond or I will have to draw a new winner.

Thanks to everyone who entered!


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