This menu includes a little trip and a holiday! Whew! I'm going to keep meals simple. Should be a fun week!
Friday - We are heading to a family reunion so dinner will be there.
Saturday - Family Reunion :-)
Sunday - Family Reunion :-)
Monday - My brother, Ken, and his family are in town - we are all eating dinner at my house. Pulled Pork tenderloin, Baked Beans, Corn and Tomato Salad and Chips and Dip.
Tuesday - Tonight we are all eating at my mom's house
Wednesday - Tonight I think we will keep it simple and do homemade chicken nuggets and oven fries.
Thursday - Happy 4th of July ! We are having a cookout at my mom's!
Now if only my brothers Kel, and Jeff and their families could be here too! :-)
Friday, June 28, 2019
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Summer Fun Week 4
How are we four weeks into summer? I'm not quite sure. It's been a beautiful summer - rainy - but beautiful. Shoot, we hadn't even put the AC units in as of this past weekend and that was the latest that has ever happened! Looking ahead, though, with upper 80 temps this coming week, I started putting them in on Monday. It's hard to want to do anything if the house is hot and we are all sweating! Anyway, here's what was planned and what we did this past week!
Thursday - The Library program and Theater Class. Both of these things happened just as planned :-)
Friday - Swimming and then Nate wants to go see some classmates test for their black belts. We did both of these things.
Saturday - Just a quiet day - swimming if the weather is nice otherwise just hanging at home. We enjoyed swimming - the pool was super busy but it was a perfect day to swim!
Sunday - my mom and I are going to meet long time friends for lunch and VBS starts tonight This was an amazing thing - visiting with long time friends was just amazing and the boys enjoyed VBS.
Monday - Nate has TKD testing tonight while Josh is going to VBS. This went just as planned.
Tuesday - If the weather is nice, we are going to swim and then VBS in the evening. We actually met friends at the State campground beach and the kids played together there. Then we went to VBS at night.
Wednesday - Today is going to be "quiet" maybe swimming or maybe not. VBS in the evening. We did go swimming - it was a perfect day for it! And, we brought one of the boys friends with us too. Then, of course, VBS>
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Thursday - The Library program and Theater Class. Both of these things happened just as planned :-)
Friday - Swimming and then Nate wants to go see some classmates test for their black belts. We did both of these things.
Saturday - Just a quiet day - swimming if the weather is nice otherwise just hanging at home. We enjoyed swimming - the pool was super busy but it was a perfect day to swim!
Sunday - my mom and I are going to meet long time friends for lunch and VBS starts tonight This was an amazing thing - visiting with long time friends was just amazing and the boys enjoyed VBS.
Monday - Nate has TKD testing tonight while Josh is going to VBS. This went just as planned.
Tuesday - If the weather is nice, we are going to swim and then VBS in the evening. We actually met friends at the State campground beach and the kids played together there. Then we went to VBS at night.
Wednesday - Today is going to be "quiet" maybe swimming or maybe not. VBS in the evening. We did go swimming - it was a perfect day for it! And, we brought one of the boys friends with us too. Then, of course, VBS>
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Summer Goal Progress
Here's a quick look at what was accomplished in June! I feel like it looks like I didn't do much but yet I feel like I did - we've been busy with a variety of things . . .just not all of these things!
1. Scrapbooking
--- Figure out how many page protectors I need to completely finish albums. I did this and have it noted so I can order when I can.
--- Spend about 4 hours a month specifically scrapbooking. I want to carve out schedule time to scrapbook. I'm hoping for at least one 4 hour block each month. The month isn't done but . . I have a busy few days so this won't happen this month.
2. Desks - Work with the boys to completely clean out their school desks so they are ready for the fall; also do a complete clean out of my desk so it's nice an organized once again.
3. Clean the garage and organize it completely.
4. Clean out the playroom and organize everything
5. Clean out the boys rooms and help them organize all of their stuff.
6. Continue work in the basement - a lot of progress has been made but still more to do!
-- In June we cleaned the laundry room and got a new washer/dryer; got the dehumidifers going!; and cleaned up the "playroom" (really it's toy storage - no one wants to play there HA)
7. Clean out my flower bed and plant the sunflower seeds Done
8. Read 6 books throughout the summer. Setting the bar low!
9. Take year end photos of the boys Done
10. Take School photos of the boys (End of August)
11. Learn a piano song for July (have to play the piano for church)
12. Learn my special for July (Have to sing at church)
13. Make the elusive dentist appointment HA!
14. Order Halloween Costumes (yes, I do this in the summer before prices start to climb!)
15. Plan two birthdays and Christmas (I like to plan by the end of August to make it easier to accomplish everything)
16. Bake and Cook something new. Specifically I'd like to try making Macarons. Those delicious little French pastries. I also have a few great cookbooks I'd like to try a few things from as well.
1. Scrapbooking
--- Figure out how many page protectors I need to completely finish albums. I did this and have it noted so I can order when I can.
--- Spend about 4 hours a month specifically scrapbooking. I want to carve out schedule time to scrapbook. I'm hoping for at least one 4 hour block each month. The month isn't done but . . I have a busy few days so this won't happen this month.
2. Desks - Work with the boys to completely clean out their school desks so they are ready for the fall; also do a complete clean out of my desk so it's nice an organized once again.
3. Clean the garage and organize it completely.
4. Clean out the playroom and organize everything
5. Clean out the boys rooms and help them organize all of their stuff.
6. Continue work in the basement - a lot of progress has been made but still more to do!
-- In June we cleaned the laundry room and got a new washer/dryer; got the dehumidifers going!; and cleaned up the "playroom" (really it's toy storage - no one wants to play there HA)
7. Clean out my flower bed and plant the sunflower seeds Done
8. Read 6 books throughout the summer. Setting the bar low!
9. Take year end photos of the boys Done
10. Take School photos of the boys (End of August)
11. Learn a piano song for July (have to play the piano for church)
12. Learn my special for July (Have to sing at church)
13. Make the elusive dentist appointment HA!
14. Order Halloween Costumes (yes, I do this in the summer before prices start to climb!)
15. Plan two birthdays and Christmas (I like to plan by the end of August to make it easier to accomplish everything)
16. Bake and Cook something new. Specifically I'd like to try making Macarons. Those delicious little French pastries. I also have a few great cookbooks I'd like to try a few things from as well.
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Sunday Worship - Dream Small
We live in a society where everyone always says "Dream Big"! or "You Can do Anything you Want!" . . ..well, sometimes it is ok to dream small too.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Our Week in Photos #24
I'll be honest, I thought I took more photos this week but apparently I did not!
This past weekend was Father's Day - we hung around home, enjoyed dinner at my mom's on Saturday, and Burgers on the grill on Sunday.
Monday, Josh got his hair cut and then we hung out at my mom's for lunch and a bit after that.
Tuesday the boys went to the Orthodontist.
Wednesday was a quiet, rainy day
Finally, Thursday!!!
On Thursday we went to the library summer program - Stormy the Magician. He always makes me laugh.
The boys also went to theater class but there are no photos of that.
On Friday we went swimming first.
Then, Nate wanted to go see two of his class mates test for their black belts so he and I went to that. Wow. I thought I would be bored but it was the opposite - it is so impressive to see all these two young men had to know and do. I told Nate that I was stressed out and it wasn't even HIM testing HA!
So it was a fun week - just lacking in photos!
Friday, June 21, 2019
Weekly Menu
Welcome to another week of eating! This is a pretty quiet week coming up. Summer seems to be running a little slow this year which is actually kind of nice. I have a feeling though that July is going to come and surprise us all!
Friday - Crock-pot Ziti and Garlic Bread
Saturday - I think we might grill . .. maybe :-)
Sunday - So, VBS starts tonight at church so we need to leave home by 5:25. That means that meals have to kid friendly and easy. Tacos it is!
Monday - We have VBS for Josh and TKD for Nate. Pizza and Mac and Cheese makes everyone happy
Tuesday - VBS! Chicken Nuggets and Fries
Wednesday - VBS! Spaghetti :-)
Thursday - VBS! Pizza and Mac and Cheese (again) because it's the boys favorites :-)
Now, looking at this menu, it is possible that Darryl and I might treat ourselves out one night (Like $5.00 box meals from Taco Bell HA!) since the kids will have to eat at 5:00 every night.
Friday - Crock-pot Ziti and Garlic Bread
Saturday - I think we might grill . .. maybe :-)
Sunday - So, VBS starts tonight at church so we need to leave home by 5:25. That means that meals have to kid friendly and easy. Tacos it is!
Monday - We have VBS for Josh and TKD for Nate. Pizza and Mac and Cheese makes everyone happy
Tuesday - VBS! Chicken Nuggets and Fries
Wednesday - VBS! Spaghetti :-)
Thursday - VBS! Pizza and Mac and Cheese (again) because it's the boys favorites :-)
Now, looking at this menu, it is possible that Darryl and I might treat ourselves out one night (Like $5.00 box meals from Taco Bell HA!) since the kids will have to eat at 5:00 every night.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Summer Fun Week 3
Wow, third week of summer! I really enjoy summer (not 100 degree days though!) and I find that with homeschool that fills our days during the school year, it makes summer more special because we are tied to books and desks. I will say that I think last week was probably the busiest week of our summer and things will slow down as the weeks progress!! Here's the plan for the coming week
Thursday - Today is the last day of Running Club (my kids are so tired!). I also have book club in the evening so the boys are going to have dinner with my mom. This day went just as planned. The boys WERE tired by the end of Thursday.
Friday - Today the boys are going to a one day Vacation Bible School that they are super excited about! This day also went as planned :-)
Saturday - I "think" Darryl is taking this day off so we will celebrate Father's Day with him. We hung out at home and then had dinner at my mom's
Sunday - We tend to keep Sundays kind of quiet. If the weather is nice we will go swimming; if not we will just crash at home! We crashed at home after church and lunch.
Monday - Josh is getting his hair cut; Nate has Tae Kwon Do. We added a few things - we had lunch at my moms followed by running some errands. So we had a busy day.
Tuesday - The boys have orthodontist appointments to get their expanders. Neither one is looking forward to this day so we will probably just come home. Dentist appointments went well and then we ended the day with swimming at the pool since it was a perfect day!
Wednesday - Swimming if the weather will cooperate! The weather did not cooperate so we just hung out at home. The power went out just before time to make dinner so we ended up having to grab something out (no, I wasn't heartbroken HA!) It was a pretty quiet day.
Thursday - Today is the last day of Running Club (my kids are so tired!). I also have book club in the evening so the boys are going to have dinner with my mom. This day went just as planned. The boys WERE tired by the end of Thursday.
Friday - Today the boys are going to a one day Vacation Bible School that they are super excited about! This day also went as planned :-)
Saturday - I "think" Darryl is taking this day off so we will celebrate Father's Day with him. We hung out at home and then had dinner at my mom's
Sunday - We tend to keep Sundays kind of quiet. If the weather is nice we will go swimming; if not we will just crash at home! We crashed at home after church and lunch.
Monday - Josh is getting his hair cut; Nate has Tae Kwon Do. We added a few things - we had lunch at my moms followed by running some errands. So we had a busy day.
Tuesday - The boys have orthodontist appointments to get their expanders. Neither one is looking forward to this day so we will probably just come home. Dentist appointments went well and then we ended the day with swimming at the pool since it was a perfect day!
Wednesday - Swimming if the weather will cooperate! The weather did not cooperate so we just hung out at home. The power went out just before time to make dinner so we ended up having to grab something out (no, I wasn't heartbroken HA!) It was a pretty quiet day.
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