Meal plan Monday

So I am starting to enjoy meal plans, but they are still used as general suggestions. I often look up at my board and think that does not sound good or that is going to take more time then I am willing to put in and quickly change it up. I always carry over my unused suggestions to the next week. My favorite meal from last week was Cornish Pasties. I think I will put up the basic recipe in another post. The pastie can be filled with your favorite ingredients and I am looking forward to filling them with all kinds of goodness. Before I begin the menu a picture of the Cornish pastie, I only wish I had taken a picture of the prettiest one before I ate it.

Monday

Baked Chicken with Okra

Tuesday

Beef Tacos



Wednesday

Chili

Thursday

Open Faced Ratatouille sandwiches

Friday

Pizza

Saturday

Chicken and rice casserole

Sunday

Lamb Meatballs in a Rich tomato sauce

17 July Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned Take a picture of the prettiest Cornish pastie before you serve them. You never know how good it is until there is only one misshaped pastie left. For the record it was still yummy.



Cornish pasties are just as good at home as they are in a far off country. My boys even declared that they were better then peanut butter and bananas.

Now for the biggest lesson I learned this week. God will sometimes answer prayers directly through your child. Everyday I ask God to show me the path and to help me to lead my children to him. This week Damian wanted to say the Rosary and I knew that my prayers were answered. I will continue to pray for guidance. Now that I know God is listening I will be more thankful.

I hope your coming week is filled with Love and Laughter. Remember that God is Good.


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The Lord is with you

Yesterday Damian asked if he could say the Rosary. So he got his rosary out and my little cheat sheet that tells you how to say the rosary. He sat on the couch and said the rosary loudly pronouncing each prayer, his voice echoed through the quiet house. James sat playing quietly and I was filled with love. Sometimes I doubt my parenting abilities, these small moments come out and I know that we are doing okay. I think that the greatest gift that we are giving to our children is the gift of God. Both Rob and I were raised without a firm religious foundation so it is nice to see that our children's foundation is being build on solid ground. It is a really nice feeling to know we are doing at least one thing right. So before the pictures I want to share my prayer of gratitude.

Thank God for chosing me to be the mother of both of my children. Through them I am able to see your great love and know that we are all your children. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen. 

Secrets revealed

I had a secret that I kept to myself in hopes no one would find out. So why do I tell you about it? Easy my husband found out. I noticed a silver hair growing from my temple (I wish it was the first one) and as I was pulling it my husband walked in. Men, at least my man can be very insensitive. He wears glasses and and he saw the grey and said loudly, "Is that a Grey Hair?" I turned and just stared at him my secret was out all I could do was say, "I guess so." Then I saw another one, unthinkable two in one day. I was not the only one who saw it either. Damn. I really love my hair. I don't use heat to blow dry or curl, or a lot of products in my hair in order to keep it healthy. In fact I discovered the No 'poo (shampoo) movement and decided to give it a try to see if it was really all it was cracked up to be. I will do another post all about that later. So now I wash my hair with an all natural soap made with goats milk once a week. This is not part of the No 'Poo movement but there was a lovely family selling their homemade soaps at the flea market. Let me tell you I love to support  home school families so I bought 3 body soaps that smell divine, and one shampoo bar. The shampoo bar is going to last for awhile I think.



I love the smell of Balsam, it reminds me of home.

Now I find myself thinking how long before the greys take over? Will I have to die it to cover the silver? It really is a silly thing to worry about considering I have a whole plate of real worries, so maybe this grey hair is keeping my mind off the bigger things I have no control over.

I hope your Monday is filled with Love and Laughter!

Meal plan monday

It is here again meal plan Monday. Last week I started on a Wednesday. I ended up changing a couple meals at the last minute because of poor planning but we did not eat out. So a couple of last weeks meals will be moved to this week. Before we move to this weeks menu a picture of Pizza Friday. Homemade crust topped with homemade sauce, eggplant, spinach and two wonderful kinds of cheese. It was a hit and as it turns out no body complains about their veggies if the vegetables are found on a pizza. Yum

Monday

Cowboy pastries using kabob meat and home grown lemon squash (Jamie Oliver)

Tuesday

Pork Tacos and refried beans and a random vegetable

Wednesday

Wacky Mac (vegetable pasta) with homemade spaghetti sauce and homemade bread sticks

Thursday

Pulled Pork Sandwiches with sweet potato fries

Friday

Pizza

Saturday

Baked chicken with Okra (From Greek Cooking)

Sunday

 Lamb meatballs in Rich tomato sauce and a nice leafy salad (From Greek Cooking)

I hope you have a great week filled with love and laughter! Peace be with you always.

July 10-Lessons Learned

So on another blog that I read http://celebratelifewithus.blogspot.com/ (and love!) Karen decided to start a new theme for Sundays Lessons Learned during the week. I love this idea and the theme so I have decided to join in on the fun. I hope you will too. First a picture of my very own Indiana Jones

• Our Neighborhood pool is quiet in the morning so we can play/ swim laps (me) without worrying about disturbing our neighbors fun.
• Menu planning makes the question "What's for Dinner" easy to answer.
• Making dinner at a regular time is easy when you know what is for dinner at lunchtime.
• Let GOD worry for you. Somethings in life can not be changed even if you spend all your time worrying over an outcome. Give your worries to God and let him comfort you.
• Saying the rosary before bed makes for a restful night.
• There are never enough friends in the bed.

 God is Good. Remember to count your blessings and be thankful for both seen and unseen.

Menu plans

Alright so I love the idea behind menu plan Monday. If you must know we did not follow it at all. We got paid and ate out more than we should of. Rob and I sat down and decided on not eating out for the rest of summer. We have been costing by check to check and it is no longer working. We get paid and we eat out buy what ever is needed or wanted and soon there is nothing left until the next check. So we did a budget and made some hard decisions. The top being to make eating out a special occasion not a lazy outing because I don't feel like cooking. The second is beer, not that we drink a lot but we have been drinking more then we should so that is no longer in the budget. The truth is Damian is turning 7 next month and then Christmas quickly follows. We need to get ready for the holidays. So now for the meals. To make eating in and cooking every night easier on the chef (me) We have decided on Taco Tuesdays, Pizza Fridays, and Wednesdays are pasta or chili dishes. This leaves four days of elaborate cooking, my favorite kind of cooking. Before I was planning to many difficult meals and getting a little burned out cooking up to 4 hours a day. I know it is Wednesday a couple of days late on Monday Menu planning, still I am going to try this again on a abbreviated version.

Wednesday

Chili with cornbread

Thursday

Sweet potato Shepherd's pie

Friday

Pizza

Saturday

Pulled Pork and zucchini casserole

Sunday

Grilled kabobs

Wish me luck!

Prayer of the day.

O Lord, my God,

grant us your peace; already, indeed, you have made us rich in all things!

Give us that peace of being at rest,

that sabbath peace,

the peace which knows no end.



- St. Augustine


God is Good.