Menu Plan Monday

Yay! Menu plan Monday! I've missed being able to tell someone what I'm making this week, whether you've missed me or not :-) 

Just as a recap, I'm cooking for 7 people including 4 adults (me, hubs, Nana, and Papa) and the three little people who eat like adults in quantity but not palate. 

Last week I had the opportunity to clean out my recipe binder, you know, the place where I store all those awesome print outs of recipes that I find (and the little scraps of paper that I write ideas down on too). It was a complete mess, not to mention the dozens of recipes that we no longer make. The benefit was that I found some recipes in there that I am really excited to make this week!

So, here's what we'll be eating. I try to balance out types of food, but given our variable schedule, I no longer try to plan for a certain type of food on certain nights of the week.

Monday - Loaded Potato Casserole and Baked Chicken

Tuesday - Ranch Cheddar Burgers with salad and potato chips

Wednesday - Polish Pierogies

Thursday - White Chicken Enchiladas with Green Chile Sour Cream Sauce

Friday - Lasagna Muffins

Saturday - YOYO (You're On Your Own) By this time in the week, I'm all done cooking, not to mention the fridge is usually stuffed full of bits of leftovers :-)

Sunday - Crispy Chicken Tortilla Rollups with Spicy Avocado Crema

I've been making about 4 out of the 6 meals I plan in a week, so we'll see which ones get ditched as the week goes. The pierogies are delicious but very time consuming. The lasagna muffins are one that I like but the rest of the fam not so much. 

So, what are you making this week? Anything I should "steal" from you?? Go check out some more great ideas at I'm An Organizing Junkie!

~Sela

Weekend Wrap-Up 1/3/16

It took me a good 5 seconds to type the date...2016, wow!

Anyhoo...Besides some pictures, I also wanted to tell you a few things I'll be starting for myself this week/month/year. The weekend posts are when I get to blog about anything I want or nothing at all :-)

I just started a 14-day online course called "Make Over Your Mornings" by Crystal Paine over at Money Saving Mom and I'm so excited to get started! I don't know about you, but mornings around here can be pretty crazy which lead to a cranky mommy, cranky kids, and an unproductive or at least chaotic day. Not to mention that I cannot remember the last time I had a good time in the Word without sacrificing a meal to get that. If that sounds like you, then go check it out! I'll try to post a few updates as to how it's going, but no promises.


I also printed out a Grateful Journal from Marcy over at Ben and Me. Again, nothing revolutionary, just something that I want to start up again.

I have a few books that I want to read this year, but they're not coming to mind right now, so that list will have to wait for another bloggy day.

I'll leave you with a few pictures from the kids' Christmas program at bible study. Nate was clear on the other side from me, so he's hard to see. Shane, being one of the little kids, got to be in the front :-)

And Nate at his piano recital. He's so cute handsome!

~Sela

Christmas 2015 Pictures

My stepdad graciously takes family pictures of us for free every year, it's just up to me to pick the location and the day. I had a great outdoor location selected, and it snowed that day. A lot. So the backup plan was inside a local hotel, complete with a life-size real gingerbread house.

This year we went with black and red. My husband said "I like these colors, nice and simple. Why can't you pick good colors like this every year?" HA! I think he secretly just likes getting new dress shirts and when I pick something with white, he doesn't get anything new ;-)

Anyway, here's a few of my favorites...

More recent pictures tomorrow!

~Sela

Happy 2016!! And a new plan for this here blog...

I have no idea if anyone will actually read this since it's been a full 2 years since I've blogged ANYTHING but here goes!

I *hate* the words "New Year's Resolutions", they just rub me the wrong way. So this is NOT a post about New Year's Resolutions. Rather, it's something that I've been thinking about and dreaming about for many months, and just haven't put into play yet.

I miss blogging. I enjoy being able to share what I'm doing in a longer format than just a Facebook post. I like being able to blog about all the areas of my crazy life. I want the accountability to myself of posting something about school, family, homemaking, and my business every week.

So, here's the plan. It's not going to be perfect. I'm sure that I will miss days, even if I have the best intentions not to. And there is grace for that. But here is what I would like to do, at least for now, and we'll just have to see how it goes.

• Menu Plan Monday (Food/recipes)
• Talk about Tuesday (Review/product recommendation)
• What are we learning Wednesday (Homeschooling)
• Thankful Thursday (My journey to 1000 gifts)
• Fashion Friday (Jewelry usually, sometimes other fashion tidbits)
• Pictures on the weekend

These are the major areas of my life right now, so this is what I want to tell the world about. :-)

And at some point, I'll get the look of the blog updated to include new pictures of the little people...they're a lot bigger now!

~Sela

Menu Plan Monday–January 4

I didn’t fall off the planet, I swear. I’ve been a little crazy busy for the last, oh, three months. And it doesn’t appear to be slowing down at all. But, you know, I’m still planning meals, it’s what keeps that part of my life sane. I’m now cooking for 7 people including one very picky child, one not-so-little baby toddler, and four adults. That changes things a bit. Like how many left overs we have. And our grocery bill. And how much time I have to blog. Not to mention Christmas and a birthday party for my now 7 year old!

Anyway, this is what we had on the menu last week…

Monday – BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

Tuesday – Spaghetti & Sauce

Wednesday – Ribs from Montgomery Inn (thanks UJ!) and mashed potatoes

Thursday – Pizza from Papa Murphy’s. Spent all day making K’s cake, and really really didn’t want to make anything

Friday – Rainbow Colored Spaghetti for Kahlen’s Birthday

Saturday – Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Sunday – Polish Pierogis

I’m still recovering from Kahlen’s party, so we’ll see if I get to the Pierogis tomorrow :-)

I’m also planning on doing a big batch of freezer-to-crockpot meals this week, hopefully that will save us from eating spaghetti and sauce every. single. week.

So…what have you been cooking? I think I need to find some new recipes, ones that are better suited for our family of 7!

Pictures of Kahlen’s birthday party are coming, promise

~S

Wordless Wednesday–Moving

Remember when I posted about our Summer Fun Kids Activities? Well, we got about 45 of the 60 done, amazing! Especially considering that we have decided to put our house on the market.

So, now that we’re moving, I needed a new list:

The master plan is that we are moving in with my in-laws while we sell our current house and find a new house that is perfect for us without being rushed into buying something that we don’t love.

So, pardon my absence, and pray that I survive the moving while schooling and everything else!

Here’s a few pictures of the current chaos that is my house:

~S

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Wordless Wednesday–FLOOD

Truly wordless. I have no words for what is going on around me in my beautiful state of Colorado. Friends stranded. Massive damage to my hometown and the town I now live in. The recovery time for this is going to be long. Ugh.

These pictures were taken by my husband, who went on a bike ride to some of the areas affected downtown. And as a side note, he took them with just his phone.

This is the bridge that goes under Lincoln just north of Jefferson St.

Looking south at the same location.

The bike path at Lee Martinez Park

There’s more of the bike path buried under there somewhere.

Behind North Aztlan Community Center.

Also behind the community center.

Just happened to be there while there was a train going across.

 

*sigh* Praying everyone stays safe and we can get this mess cleaned up quickly!

~S

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