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Menu Plan Monday April 21st

Did everyone have a happy Easter?

I know my kids did.  Easter really snuck  up on me this year.  We didn’t even go see the Easter Bunny and get pictures!  I couldn’t believe it.

But the Easter Bunny was still kind enough to stop by our house with a few gifts and candy filled plastic eggs.

For lunch we went to my sister’s house and my nieces hid eggs for my boys and my cousin’s girls.  And by hid, I mean they tossed them around the yard for the little kids to pick up.

Ian would run around grab a couple then put them in his basket.  He was also really good about sharing and making sure his cousins and brother got some.  After all the eggs were found, he picked up his basket and said ‘Whew. Dats a lot of eggs. I’m a natural.’

For dinner we went to one of my aunt’s house where these was a lot of family and good food.

Sid even got some ice cream for dessert.

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I think these kids had more sugar yesterday than they did on Halloween!

 

 

Menu Plan 4/21-4/27

Mon: Roast Chicken with Creamy Mac & Cheese

Tue: Cheese Burger Wraps (been trying to make these for 2 weeks now…they keep getting overlooked)

Wed: Italian Cheese Stuffed Pork Chops with Risotto

Thr: Tomato Basil Parmesan Tortellini 

Fri: Leftovers

Sat: Kitchen is Closed!

Sun: Birthday party to attend 

 

Happy Cooking

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Menu Plan Monday April 7th

 

 

Last week we went to my sister’s one night to celebrate my BIL’s birthday.  Which meant I didn’t have to cook that night!  WHOO HOO!

We had ice cream for desert and Sid would take a bite and make this really funny face and then laugh.  So Ian also wanted to make a funny face for me to take a picture.

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These boys kill me sometimes!

 

Menu Plan 4/7-4/13

Mon: Cheesy Bacon Chicken Casserole 

Tue: Slow Cooker Pork Tenderloin with Garlic Rosemary Potatoes

Wed: General Tso’s Chicken with rice

Thr: Cheese Burger Wraps

Fri: Leftovers

Sat: Kitchen is Closed!

Sun: Beef Stew in the crock pot

 

Happy Cooking

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Menu Plan Monday March 31st

I am seriously about ready to break up with electronics!

I don’t get it, why are they out to ruin me?

First: my portable external hard drive jumps of my computer and refuses to be seen by said computer.

I finally get the computer to acknowledge it and the computer wants to reformat it.  To which I said ‘no way!’  So I do a ‘scandisk’ check and leave it over night.  Only to come back and find that it went from a NTFS drive to a RAW drive!  What??

Second: I go to turn my computer on and it tells me my system file is corrupt and I need to re-install the OS.  But as it turns out the hard drive won’t even spin, so it is kaput.

Third: (and this was today) my other external hard drive (not portable) is not getting power.  After trying a different power cord I hear a clicking sound and no disk spinning.

 

Yes, yes.  Everyone tells me that I needed to sign up for a cloud service, but right now I can’t afford the size that I need.

I guess I should be happy this happened after Ian’s party and I was able to make all his decorations, but now I can’t access the pictures (don’t worry they are still on my camera’s memory stick).

But this is really getting ridiculous.

I JUST WANT SOMETHING TO WORK!

 

OK. rant over, here is what I am hopefully going to be making for dinner this week.

 

Menu Plan 3/31-4/6

Mon: Tacos

Tue: Three Cheese Ziti with Chicken Casserole 

Wed: Meatloaf with red potatoes (never made this last week)

Thr: Slow Cooker Parmesan Honey Pork Roast Recipe with mashed potatoes

Fri: Leftovers

Sat: Kitchen is Closed!

Sun: Race Day!

 

Happy Cooking

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Menu Plan Monday March 24th

Happy Meal Plan Monday!

The sun is shining here in my part of the world.  It was a beautiful weekend and I am making huge progress on the decorations for Ian’s party.

His party is this coming Saturday, I can’t believe I have a four year-old!  I still have lots and lots to do before then, so I am hoping to make some easy, simple dinners this week.

We make Birthday Cake Pancakes for the kids on their birthday.  Because…welllll…it’s their birthday.  And if you have tried them you would understand.

 

 

Menu Plan 3/24-3/30

Mon: Lasagna 

Tue: Meatloaf with red potatoes

Wed: Slow Cooker Zesty Italian Chicken

Thr: Tacos with Spanish rice

Fri: Party Prep

Sat: Party Day!

Sun: Something in the crock pot, need to unwind after Party Day 🙂

 

Happy Cooking

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