Dance Dance Dance!

Favorite past-time around here: putting on dresses and dancing! And we recently discovered that one of grandma and grandpa's channels plays kids' music.




My, life will be different when there is a boy around here!

Menu plan for Jan 24th, 2011

Here's what we will be eating this week:

I haven't done much grocery shopping yet this week since my main goal is to stock up on oatmeal at Albies and I am awaiting my coupon order from ebay. By the way if you are local I ended up buying 40 coupons, so I have some extras to sell (unfortunately they were not cheap... $0.50/each for $1.00 off coupons! But it was worth it since we go through so much.

Breakfasts: oatmeal, toast, eggs, baked oatmeal, lazy granola

Lunches/snacks: leftovers, sandwiches, soup

Clean out the freezers week...since I am almost out of grocery $$ and we have full freezers!

Dinners:

Monday: Spagetti Carbonara, using ham, green beans or mixed veggies

Tuesday: Taco Soup, Cornbread

Wednesday: Pigs in a blanket (homemade blankets!), salad

Thursday: Quick Chicken Divan (a favorite in this house!) with some tweaks

Friday: Frozen Pizza, veggie sticks

Saturday: Chicken and Bean Quesadillas w/ all the fixins'

Sunday: Clean out the fridge and leftovers!
What's on your menu this week?

Now I know why Liv is starting to enjoy Sunday School....

Yes, those are brownies all over her face.

And Ritz crackers. The girl had three teachers all to herself last week! Goodness... what a rough life.

My Nurse-Maids

Today is my glucose screening test...prayer appreciated! And we are still unsure of who we'll be able to have the baby with...just a tangle of insurance stuff we have to wade through and midwife availability. They still don't make it easy to VBAC...even if you've already had one! But, God is in control!

Either way, I am in good hands...the Lord's and my faithful nurse-maids pictured below:

Menu Plan for 1/17/11

Here's what we will be eating this week:

And...here's the shopping trip for this week.

Breakfasts: oatmeal, toast, eggs, leftover whole wheat buttermilk pancakes , leftover breakfast cake
Lunches/snacks: leftovers, sandwiches, soup

Dinners:

Monday: Sloppy Joe Shepherd's pie (a creation combining leftover sloppy joes, lentils and topped with leftover potato soup), salad

Tuesday: Chimichangas, quacamole, chips, veggie sticks

Wednesday: Pizza , italian cheese bread (my folks are having friends over that are bringing pizza, but its just for their peeps, so we'll make our own)

Thursday: Baked Potato Bar w/ broccoli, chili (free from Rite Aid!), cheese, sour cream, etc.

Friday: Spagetti Carbonara, using ham, green beans or mixed veggies

Saturday: Spinach Quiche

Sunday:Leftovers, Winter Bean Soup, easy homemade rolls

What's on your menu this week?

Grocery Trip 1/15/11 (loves me some grocery bargains)

I finally was under budget! My last couple of weeks have been over (when counting toiletries etc.) so I was happy to even things out a bit this week. Albies' doubles helped ALOT.

Total Spent this week: about $37
Below: Albertson's (3 doubles transactions), Food Pavillion mostly for produce, and Safeway.

Albertson's again (3 transactions of doublers). The Kikkoman cat did not print for me. But, somehow they were still free with coupons and doublers, so a good deal for something we use a lot of.

This week is a good illustration of why couponers can pay very little for groceries and not just eat junk. We have a few treats (juice, whole grain crackers w/cheese filling, a few butterfingers) but mostly real food like produce, yogurt, veggies, nuts, hummus, meat and several reasonably healthy cereal choices.

Around the house

Favorite activity: playing dress-up

Now that we sold the piano, the girls' room has tons more space and light. The hide-a-bed(that we are also trying to sell!) is a favorite reading spot...and the girls have adopted the window ledge as prime reading real-estate.

I am "trying" to read "the problem of pain" by C.S. Lewis. Love Lewis, but sometimes my attention span with two littles is lacking for his depth:)