Start of the Week Stuff

Well, it's been a few months! I had surgery at the beginning of November and I've been spending all of my free time on the couch with my iPhone. As great as that phone is, I wasn't about to try to make a blog post on the tiny keyboard.
After 6 weeks of doing as little as possible around here I'm needing to work my way back to real life, which means menu planning. I know it's the week before Christmas and things are a bit crazy right now, but I can't put it off anymore (we ate pasta and crock pot chicken way too many times last week!). I'm still getting tired really easily, so I'm trying to stick with quick, easy recipes, but that's not easy this week.


Menu:
Monday- tacos
Tuesday- Easy crock pot potato soup
Wednesday-
Thursday- Crockpot Italian Chicken (over pasta)
Friday-
Saturday-
Sunday- strata (for breakfast), bringing stuffing, cranberry sauce, and peppermint rice krispies


To-Do's:
Monday- grocery shopping
Tuesday-
Wednesday- getting eyebrows done
Thursday- bake cookies with the kids
Friday-
Saturday- cook, cook, cook
Sunday- Christmas!

Catching Up...

I went to a woman's retreat last weekend with my church and wasn't home to post my usual posts. I actually did get home Sunday night, but I took yesterday "off". I still had to do all the kid taxiing and care, but I didn't do much of anything else productive.


Scrapbook Friday:

Britt's new kit this week is her Halloween kit, Frightfully Delightful. It's super cute, but I had no Halloween pictures left to scrap (going back quite a few years). Luckily almost every Halloween kit has orange and black in it, so I can always make it work with anything Giants themed (and there's always a lot of that). I decided to scrap these pictures that Megan took of us last spring, and I'm loving how this one turned out!

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*This layout got a Gallery Standout at SM, check it out. :D

Start of the Week Stuff:

This week has become a little crazy. Monday I was too tried to think about meal planning, we had leftover pizza for dinner. Tuesday we were supposed to have family over for dinner, but that fell through at the last minute. Then R got sick, so M and N had pb&j and Matthew and I had tomato soup that I happened to have in the fridge. Now I can't take a sick kid to the grocery store, and we're really running out of food! M took the last banana in her lunch today which caused N to throw quite the fit when I had to tell him he couldn't have one for breakfast. We're out of yogurt, almost out of apples, and I have nothing left in the house for dinner other than pasta. I may have to try to run out tonight after Matthew gets home from work, bleh.

R seems to be feeling better today, so I'm hoping he's over it and nobody else gets sick! I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning, and a dinner to go to tomorrow night, soccer on Saturday, and we were planning on going to the pumpkin patch with our friends on Sunday.

Anyway, not the typical start of the week post, but it has not been the typical week.

Start of the week Stuff

Menu:
Monday- crock pot salsa chicken nachos
Tuesday- pizza and salad
Wednesday- crock pot salsa chicken quesadillas
Thursday- cowboy casserole and salad
Friday-
Saturday-
Sunday-


To-Do's:
Monday- parent teacher conferences, dance, soccer, soccer (soccer canceled due to rain)
Tuesday- grocery shopping, dinner with dad
Wednesday- soccer for M
Thursday- errands in town (??)
Friday- woman's retreat :)

Scrapbook Friday

Britt has a new flashback kit for this month, Incredi-Boy, a collab with GG Digital Designs. When I saw this was going to be the flashback I knew I had to scrap these pictures from Halloween '09. I've been trying to work on 2010 and 2011 mostly, but how could I not scrap these now? Look how little my babies were! *sniff*

Start of the Week Stuff

Menu:
Monday- crock pot bbq chicken sandwiches (which are still stuck to the crock pot even after soaking and scrubbing with everything I could think of, ugg!)
Tuesday- family dinner here, pizza!
Wednesday- tacos
Thursday- tomato soup and grilled cheese
Friday- ?
Saturday- something easy peasy
Sunday- same...


To-Do's:
Monday- dance, soccer, soccer (R's was canceled due to rain, M's was not, but we skipped it)
Tuesday- take the car to shop (not planned, but when it started acting up this morning I had no choice), laundry, clean house, bake dessert, family over
Wednesday- soccer for M
Thursday- small group
Friday- pumpkin patch field trip for R, soccer for R, Mack High's homecoming game??
Saturday- soccer for both kids (on my own, games at the same time again)
Sunday- church, work in nursery

Scrapbook Friday

Britt's new kit this week is Nom, Nom, Nom (and a cute coordinating alpha). This kit is perfect for all those baby in the highchair photos (and so much more!). It also coordinates with Britt's Signature Style kit for one mega kit!
I love these pictures of N, and I love how the layout turned out. :)

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My Little Man

Just a couple cute shots of my little 2-year-old. It was surprisingly warm yesterday so this favorite outfit of mine got another chance to be worn. Of course I just had to snap some pictures while I had the chance. :) Enjoy.




*A funny little note that doesn't really have anything to do with these pictures:
I decided today to try again with making his pacifier be only for naps/bedtime. He asked for it after nap today and I told him I put them up and they were for sleeping only now. He looked at me and smiled and said, "You teasing Mommy!". Sorry Buster, I'm not teasing.