Menu Plan Monday

Happy Columbus Day! Nate's off work and we are just relaxing. It's a good day! I didn't have to worry about our menu today. Nate wanted hot dogs. Um ok. So my plan for the week beyond Monday...

Breakfast are easy and always about the same.

Eggs and toast
boiled eggs and fruit
oatmeal
muffins
I would like to try homemade pop tarts.

Lunch... again easy.

Peanut butter and honey sandwiches
ham and crackers and fruit
corn dog muffins
leftovers

Now for the part I actually try to plan. :)
Supper!

Tuesday- potato soup and corn muffins
Wednesday- spaghetti and broccoli
Thursday-crock pot stew
Friday-navy bean and ham soup (from the freezer), salad and bread
Saturday- Steak and veggies

baking list includes banana bread, muffins and rolls
I think the kids and I will make some peanut butter cookies too. :)

Thankful

My friend Jennifer at The Path Less Taken has decided that she will blog on Sunday's about what she is thankful for from the week. A marvelous idea! She said we should join in so I am going to, right now. :)

Here are my top 5 thing I am thankful for this week.

#1 Cooler weather. I am so happy that fall has finally decided to grace us with it's presence. I lloooove fall! I love the weather and the holidays. I like that the kids have wanting to be outside playing more. I like that we haven't felt like melting getting into the car and we shouldn't have to worry about AC in the car messing up until next year. :)


#2 I am thankful for perfectly precious headbands. Love this one from Linny Jane Vintage. Her stuff is sooo pretty and she is such a sweet lady too. Of course the cute kid modeling it really helps. ;)

#3 I am thankful that it was a slow week. We had time to just hang out and play. I had time to decorate some cookies just for fun and make lists.

#4 My wonderful friends, who are so nice when I have to change plans. Sorry Em!

#5 My kids who are just so fun and getting so big. I love hearing the stuff they come up with. I really need to write that stuff down.

Here they are creating camp fires with candy at Girl Scouts this week.

Well this one is just eating the supplies.

He was great and very into it. I thought he'd just want to eat it too. He wanted it perfect.

The actual girl scout!

I am linking up at The Path Less Taken. Check it out!

Muffin Tin Monday and a Quick Update

This week went by so fast. I had a pretty cool cake to work on which I will share soon. We started a unit study on the book Mr Poppers Penguins. Such a cute book and the kids are really enjoying learning about penguins. We are reading the book and watched a couple movies about penguins, including March of the Penguins. A penguins life is really kind of hard isn't it? Anyways, so that was the theme of the week and we will be working on the same theme this week. This is a longer unit study.

This week will be kind of busy too. Tomorrow we have our first event for the new homeschool group I am starting. We will be going to Skateland for a couple hours. The guy at Skateland is so nice. He is a believer in Jesus and was super nice to meet with. He is not requiring a minimum of people for our events, knowing it could take some time to build up. Our first event is tomorrow, we will have another in October with a Halloween theme and then we have one planned for Valentines Day. I think there will be some in between October and February too but these are the dates so far.

AND I want to show our muffin tin breakfast. My kids eat so well with a muffin tin meal, its craziness. So I made one up for breakfast. They don't eat a lot at breakfast time so I kept it simple.

Here we have some boiled eggs, cut in half (both my young ones will not eat the yolk). Some banana bread cubed and some apple slices.


I am joining in Muffin Tin Mondays, check it out to see more cool muffin tin meals!

Giveaway Winner

The winner of the Big G Cereal giveaway is Julie! Congrats Julie, I will send you an email.
Thanks for playing!

Blogs to Share

I have a couple blog articles I want to share. Just a quick post from me. :) It's a busy week but I will update soon. Please visit the blogs though.


Children Keeping You Out Of Ministry?

Do Homeschoolers Spend Enough Time With Their Children?

Big G Cereal Giveaway!~

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Win a Kitchenaid!

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