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I love long weekends.

I hate long weekends.

Having an extra day off is both wonderful and horrible. I love having it, but it makes it that much harder to return to work.

You try to cram all these plans into one extra day!

This weekend my brother and his family came to town and now I am exhausted. The kids are exhausted. But I am sure we are not as exhausted as my brother is, since they had to travel.

Plus I get my days all confused, thus the reason I am posting this on a Tuesday.

My hubby is working late all week, so I have to pick up the kids and rush home to make dinner then feed them. And I mean literally put food in their mouths. Since I won’t have any help during this time, I am making simple food. Well, I have Wed. off so I can spend some time cooking during the day.

The best part about this weekend was having all the kids together. They were super adorable!

Menu Plan 5/27-6/2

Mon: we had leftovers

Tue: Chicken & Rice

Wed: Beer Marinated Pork Chops with Cheese Topping and Creamy Garlic Pasta

Thr: Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos & Spanish Rice

Fri: Chili

Sat:

Sun: Cajun Chicken Stuffed with Pepper Jack Cheese & Spinach, Green Beans and Duchess Potatoes

Happy Cooking

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It is finally getting warm here in the Pacific NW.

I say that like it is summer time and we haven’t had any nice days.

Today I wanted my husband to blow up Ian’s little pool because it was getting really hot. He wanted to mow the lawn first. So Ian and I headed over to Bamma’s house.

Her pool is not up and running yet, since May just started. Although she did work on it this weekend. Which means the weather will probably go to crap now that we have a way to cool off.

Since we couldn’t cool off in either of the pools we improvised.