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Meal Plan Monday April 15

Happy Tax Day!

Did you mail yours off?

I kept asking my husband if he was sure we didn’t need to go pick our taxes up and sign something.  He kept telling me that it was all electronic this year (this is the first year we don’t have a bunch of stuff that makes e-filing impossible).  I got a call on Sat, “this is a reminder you need to mail your state taxes in on Monday, so come by this weekend and pick them up”….

Once again it was a very busy weekend for us.  While I never made it to the store, I was able to make a meal plan for the next couple weeks.  Which includes a day for making baby food.

Let's Eat!

Meal Plan 4/15-4/21

Mon: Lemon Chicken Romano with Lemon Risotto

Tue: Parmesan Crusted Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Crockpot Tomato Basil Soup

Wed: Hubby’s Birthday so we are going OUT to dinner!

Thr: Pepperjack Pulled Pork Ciabatta Sandwich with some kinda veggie on the side

Fri: Crockpot Pesto Ranch Chicken with pasta

Sat: Baby Food Making Time!

Sun: Beer Marinated Pork Chops with Cheese Topping and Roasted Ranch Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese and Southern Biscuits

Happy Cooking

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Need something to help plan your meals?  I use the Plan to Eat online meal planner.  Try it free for 30 days

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Find more recipes at I’m an Organizing Junkie or Erin Brans.com


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Meal Plan Monday April 8

Baby Sid has graduated to a highchair.  I am not as pleased about this as I should be, simply because we have no space in our dinning room for our highchair.  It has these folding legs that form a very large triangle.  It takes up SO much space.

But he is super cute in it. And Ian is happy to have him at the table.

Baby Sid Highchair

It is nice that he can sit with us at restaurants now

Baby Sid Highchair

even if he does want to use the table as a chew toy…

Sometimes when I cook I don’t really use recipes.  This is gonna be that kinda week.  So my plan might help you with some ideas, but not so much with actual recipes.  Oh, and we are using a lot of hamburger meat…

Menu Plan 4/8-4/14

Mon: Spaghetti, no not the kind from a jar, but the kind I don’t have a recipe for

Tue: Beef Stew

Wed: Tacos

Thr: Sage Pork Chops with Parmesan Rice

Fri: Sloppy Joes (yes, I am singing the Adam Sandler song when I type it)

Sat: come on, you know I don’t make dinner on Sat…

Sun: Helping to host a baby shower so all my kitchen time will be devoted to that!
Happy Cooking

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Need something to help plan your meals?  I use the Plan to Eat online meal planner.  Try it free for 30 days

Simple Meal Planning - Plan to Eat

Find more recipes at I’m an Organizing Junkie or Erin Brans.com


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Non-Meal Plan Non-Monday

Last Friday was Ian’s 3rd birthday!

I can’t believe three years have gone by already.

He decided to have a superhero birthday party, which was the day after his birthday.

So I spent all last week trying to get everything together.

About 12:30 am on Saturday morning, while gluing candy boxes together, my nose started running and my throat started to hurt.

Come Sunday I admitted I was sick.  I have a cold.

So this week I have no plans to make dinner, I am just going to wing it.

The one thing I do know is I am going to try to make these rolls

for Easter dinner on Sunday at my moms house.

 

Birthday Party Success

As you can tell by this picture he had a great birthday.  Which I need to thank my mom for all her help with.

Thanks Mom!

I wanted to get Ian’s birthday party pictures up by now, but this stupid cold has really got me sluggish.

 

Happy Health

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime

I have been itching to push the trigger button for a while now.

Between working, blogging, homemaking, mothering, wifeing, party planning and all the other things I feel I am doing, I have not been able to do any photographing.

Don’t get me wrong, I use my camera.  But recently it has been picture for this blog or of my children.  Now these are valuable pictures and worth taking.

My children are adorable and I love taking pictures of them, but I miss taking other pictures.

I miss pictures with no people in them.

I have been looking for some online picture-taking incentives.  what?

I need someone or something to push me into taking those shots.  WordPress hots a weekly photo challenge.  They give us a topic we shoot it and then blog about it.  I decided to try it.

I am hoping to find other online challenges to get me out there shooting again.  If you know of any, share them with me, please.

This week’s topic…Lunchtime

This month is a phonetography month, so all pictures are taken with our phones.

This is what I eat when I forget my lunch…

Happy Shooting

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