Menu Plan Monday – Dinners for the next 3 days

I don’t have a weekly menu for this week.  It’s just going to be a bit spontaneous.  Tonight, we’re having homemade chicken tenders with Mac and Cheese (not homemade).  Tomorrow, my fantastic husband has offered to make Hamburger Helper with biscuits.  Wednesday, I’ve got Church dinner, so we don’t need to plan dinner again until [...]

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Update on 30 Days of Nothing

At the beginning of September, I set out to do Owl Haven’s 30 Days of Nothing.  I made a goal to eat more at home and spend less.  I made a monthly menu, purchased food for the month, and began.
It all went well the first half of the month.  Breakfast, lunch, and dinner came from [...]

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Garden Success – Before and After

After planting veggies, annuals, and perennials, I decided to attack an overgrown bed of bushes and vines.  It took a few days, but I finally cleared it out.  I kept having to buy more compost and topsoil, because the soil was so packed down.  Then, I planted ranunculus, daffodil, and freesia bulbs.  I also put [...]

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Still Gardening

I’ve decided to expand my gardening project.  I’m now working on a fourth garden bed.  This one had seriously overgrown bushes and vines.  I’ve already worked to trim the lower branches of the bushes and to clear away the vines.  I’ve also put down a thick layer of compost and fertilized top soil.  
Next, I [...]

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Garden Pics

I enjoyed spending most of the day outside gardening.  Here are some pictures.

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Gardening

I’m embarking on a gardening project today.  I’ve already mowed what lawn we have (drought) and picked up a few things from the plant nursery.  I have a raised bed for veggies (3 x 3), a bed by the door for annual flowers (3 x 3) and two beds on the side of the house, [...]

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Ice Cream Giggles

Only ate half a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.  Now experiencing extreme sugar high.  At giggling stage.  Off to ride stationary bike in effort to get rid of energy and somehow sleep tonight.
Will I try Phish Food again?  Hmm…

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Swimming in the Cool September Air

I avoided the pool most of the summer.  The water was too cold.  Even on hot days, even when I waited until the hottest parts of the day, the pool was too cold.  Yes, in 100 degree weather, the pool was too cold.  I’m such a wimp.  In my lovely town, we have natural springs [...]

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The Simple Woman’s Daybook – September 8

FOR TODAY… September8
Outside My Window… I see joggers going both directions in pairs and singles down my street.
I am thinking… that I need to get outside and enjoy the beautiful morning.
I am thankful for… this chance to sit back and relax today.
From the kitchen… I plan to make a cumin-rubbed pork roast.
I am wearing… a [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – September 8

I still have leftovers from last week.  We’ll be eating those for lunch until they’re gone.  I’d say that last week’s menu went relatively well.  I was quite determined to stick to it, coming home and cooking when I would normally grab something from a fast food place.  There was even one night that I [...]

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Saturday, September 6

It’s interesting how eating a simple fast food meal with your husband in a crowded food food court at a mall on a Saturday morning can be so RELAXING.
This morning, my husband and I went to the mall.  We walked around, I got a fantastic chair massage, we looked around some shops, we purchased some [...]

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Mountains of Paperwork and Grading – Yikes!

I know that it’s only the second week of school, but my goodness, I’ve got a lot of paperwork piling up in my classroom!  
Here’s why:
1.  We have a new math adoption, so I’ve got boxes of teacher materials and bags upon bags of manipulatives that need to be put away or passed out.
2.  I’ve [...]

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