Menu Plan for the week of Aug 15th, 2010

By the time you read this it will be Daniel's birthday...happy birthday love! The little one and I are home while she heals up the last round of chicken pox. In addition to the shopping trips I will post after this, the food in the picture below was gifted to us from someone who is gluten intolerant. The second time this has happened! We were thinking it would be ironic if one of us found out we were gluten intolerant someday! Not fun or funny, but ironic.


Here's what we'll be eating this week

Breakfasts: scrambled eggs, oatmeal, toast, french toast, yogurt

Lunches/snacks: leftovers, cereal, crackers & cheese, fruit

Dinners:

Sunday: Fried noodle Rice (a really yummy creation!)
with salad
Monday: Invited to someone's house

Tuesday: Chicken Noodle Soup with homemade broth, salad, biscuits

Wednesday: Invited to someone's house

Thursday: Polish Cabbage Noodles, BBQ chicken in the crockpot

Friday: Homemade Easy Pizza w/veggie sticks

Saturday: Baked Spaghetti in the crockpot(with zucchini layered in)

What's on your menu this week?

Sister Love

Of Chicken Pox, P90X and Super Doubles

Pictures of my sweet babies reading together, one of which is covered in red bumps these days.


My lack of blogging has lots of excuses and here are the top three:

1) My 14 month old has chicken pox.

2) Daniel is a mean mean boy and is still making me get up at 5am to workout to P90X with him every morning (okay I skipped the streching video yesterday..but that's it)

3) Super Doubles at Harris Teeter. I went for the first time yesterday. Had to...we rented a car for the express purpose of taking Liv to get diagnosed (with the pox) and there was a Harris Teeter nearby! Check out my deals below:)

Total about $10...notice the yummy turkey bacon and huge pack of chicken, chocolate, 2 packs of John Morrel lunch meat, seventh generation dish soap...good deals!

Other than that, we are alternating going to ICC classes (daniel's day to go is today) while the other stays with kiddo. And we're reading through Genesis as a family. That's all I got for now:)

Menu Plan for our first full week back at JAARS!

Here we are in NC again...whooo boy its muggy here!

Our grocery shopping was spendy this week--we were starting out with a couple boxes of nonperishable foodstuffs but that was it. So in addition to what's below I also bought about $8 in more milk, dishsoap, laundry soap and tortillas. I spent $64 at Harris teeter (received $10 cat back for next time)

Its difficult to see but there are two packages of Pampers, 7 packages of Morningstar veggie patties/crumbles, 6 lbs of ground beef, lots of produce 3 1/2 dozen eggs, 6 packages of cheese, 2 lbs coffee, 8 poptarts (better than free...otherwise these are not on my list!), 4 nutrigrains( better than free plus I got the coffee free by buying these!), and one fruit loops(also better than free with the Kelloggs catalina!). So...we are fairly well set up for the amount of money.
I also spent $7.50 at the flea market we had to go to for a cultural assignment. The produce prices were pretty good! I wish I'd have bought more, actually:).

Daniel's new obsession is jalapenos...he eats them raw for breakfast on eggs. Yes, he's crazy:) Must be all the exercise he's been doing (P90X!).

Here's what we'll be eating this week

Breakfasts: scrambled eggs, oatmeal, toast

Lunches/snacks: leftovers, cereal, crackers & cheese, fruit
Dinners:

Sunday: Spicy Tacos w/lots of guacamole, peppers

Monday: Beef & Cabbage stir fry over egg noodles, cheesy biscuits

Tuesday: Meatless meat crumbles in a creamy sauce over brown rice, zucchini

Wednesday: Spagetti with marinara, leftover cheesy biscuits

Thursday: Hamburgers, egg noodles, coleslaw

Friday: Homemade Easy Pizza w/veggie sticks

Saturday: Grilled Cheese and leftovers ...shopping today!

What's on your menu this week?

Goat

A recent roadside encounter between M and a goat.


Glad I wasn't there...goats creep me out:)

Camping and the Mouse House

A few pictures from our actual camping trip to Pacific City on the OR coast and then some from the pretend camp/hide-out in my parents' backyard.
The Mouse House:


Daddy and his girls reading together under their tent or hide-out

On the OR coast:

Heading back to JAARS!

(our trip to the Oregon coast last month)
We are embarking on another round of training (inter-cultural communication this time) at JAARS this month. We are heading to Seattle today and then flying to JAARS first thing tomorrow! I will be a bit spoaradic in posting until we get settled in. See you soon!