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March 18, 2013
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Meal Plan Monday 3/18 and what happened to six months?

Six months ago I was in the hospital crying and swearing and about ready to punch a nurse in the face.

I was giving birth to this bundle of joy.

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It was a labor intensive labor. yep I went there.

They say the second one is supposed to be a breeze but Baby Sid decided to make it difficult. However he has been a piece of cake ever since. Such an easy baby, always happy or sleeping.

I do have to start him on solid food soon, which means I will be starting to share my baby food recipes with you as well.

I have been putting it off because nursing him is so much easier! I know, what a lazy mom!

Menu Plan 3/18-3/14

Mon: Garlic Parmesan Chicken & Noodles (so easy!)

Tue: Country-Style Pork Loin with Arkansas Green Beans*

Wed: Wine Glazed Steak with couscous

Thr: Slow Cooker Chicken Alfredo Lasagna

Fri: Ian’s Birthday so we will be going out for dinner, but I will be making Cake Batter Pancakes for breakfast!

Sat: Ian’s birthday party, so no cooking dinner

Sun: Tacos with Mexican Green Rice

*Last Wed we ended up going out to eat, since I still had the pork roast I used the same recipe this week. I cut the amount of beans in this recipe, way too many for us.

Happy Cooking

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March 15, 2013
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Walk a mile in my shoes….

…and you will have walked a mile. And you will be wearing my shoes.

I wrote this post a while ago about how I am going to start taking the stairs.

On that day I took 4,471 steps, which was 1.81 miles.

Since then I have kept track of 14 other days. (I really only do it while at work and there was a few days in there that I was sick and didn’t take the stairs.)

Not including the first day, I have walked a total of 36,682 steps. Which calculates to 14.92 miles, which is about a mile a day. (calculation from steps to miles was from my iPod, so it is really an estimate)

It is still not easy to walk up six flights of stairs but it is getting easier.

Happy walking

March 4, 2013
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Menu Plan Monday March 4th

So this is a casserole week.

Since I started back to work, I am working four days a week. I decided Wednesdays should be my day off. Last week we were sitting at home and while the sun wasn’t shining, it wasn’t raining. I was contemplating where to take the boys to let Ian run off some energy when I noticed he had a fever.

He wouldn’t eat breakfast, and then asked for some yogurt, which I happily gave him. Come nap time we had some issues and he asked me to lie with him, so I did. He was crying and I was trying to comfort him when started throwing up.

On his pillow. On his blankets. On me. All over his bed. He just kept throwing up, and crying.

I was trying to comfort him but also let him get it all out. It was HORRIBLE!

I had to give him a shower and strip his bed, and when he was all clean he fell asleep on the couch.

He didn’t have any other episodes but held on to the fever till the next morning. In the mean time, I came down with a cold. Yep, head congestion, runny nose, cough, sore throat, but nothing in my tummy. Whew!

While my son was getting better, I was getting worse. Which means I did not cook the rest of the week! So you might notice that this coming Sunday I have planned the same thing as I did last Sunday because I still have the fish in the freezer. I decided to cook all casseroles this work week because I am still not really better and they are easy to plan. No thinking involved!

This weekend we spent a lot of time building our Lego City, because let’s face it, I wasn’t getting off the couch, or the floor.

Menu Plan 3/4-3/10

Mon: Buffalo Chicken Bake

Tue: Taco Bake

Wed: Easy Beer Mac & Cheese with Chicken casserole

Thr: Sausage Spinach Alfredo Lasagna

Fri: I will just admit it now, that I probably won’t cook on Fri

Sat: Kitchen is CLOSED

Sun: Roast Cod with Garlic butter & Creamy Garlic Pasta

Happy Cooking

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

Find more recipes at I’m an Organizing Junkie

February 18, 2013
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Party Planning and Menu Plan Monday 2/18

My big boy is turning three next month! Where the hell did the time go?

We discussed what type of birthday party he wanted and he decided on a Superhero theme.

The other day I came home and he was chattering on and said “Star Wars birffday party.”

To which I replied “Star Wars? I thought you wanted a Superhero birthday!” Ian said “Oh yeah. Superhero birfday party. BEST PARTY EVA!”

Whew!

I have been pinning ideas on my Pinterest board for the party and have been thinking about things, but I hadn’t really started to do anything yet. Then last week I got an evite from my cousin for her daughter’s birthday (Ian and her daughter were born only a week apart) and I realized ‘HOLY CRAP! I have to send out invitations soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

I had an idea for the invitations and wanted to take some pictures of him, he of course didn’t want to cooperate. Since he wouldn’t do as I wished, I would have to use some pictures I already had to make his invitations. This weekend I worked on them and I am pretty pleased with the results.