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Melting pot menu plan

07/14/2008 Nichole

I jotted down this week’s menu at my sister-in-law’s house yesterday, and naturally I left it there. I called this morning to have someone read it to me, and that someone said, “Wow, it’s international week at your house!”

I looked over the menu and realized that she was right — and that “international week” happens pretty regularly here. I’m more inclined to actually make what’s on the menu if it’s something that I’d order if we went out, and my favorite eating-out destinations are Mexican or Chinese restaurants.

Monday: Sweet & Sour Tofu. This one never came to fruition last week, so we’re going to have it tonight.

Tuesday: Mu Shu Chicken with fried rice. I think I’m going to try to cook the chicken in the CrockPot.

Wednesday: Garden Veggie Quesadillas. I had a vegetable quesadilla made with squash and carrots at a Mexican restaurant a few weeks ago, and it was great. We’re going to try to re-create it.

Thursday: Oven-Baked Chicken. At least some of these will be in nugget format for Poppy.

Friday: Pizza. Probably. I haven’t quite decided.

On the Road

Staying sane on the road

07/09/2008 Nichole

It takes about 11 hours to drive to my dad’s house. That’s if you don’t have small people who need to stop frequently. We do have such small people, which meant we spent quite a bit more time on the road. In all that time, though, we only had a handful of whiney moments and not a single full-blown meltdown. I can’t take too much credit for that; we’ve been blessed with two extremely good little travelers. I did, however, do a few things to try to make the trip easier on them.
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Music

Summer soundtrack

07/07/2008 Nichole

Mandy tagged me for this music meme, but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to follow the rules. You’re supposed to:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good — but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

We have music playing all day, but I keep the iPod on shuffle most of the time. There are more than 2,000 songs on there. That doesn’t quite mean that we rarely listen to the same song twice, but it does mean that there hasn’t really been a steady soundtrack to our days. That being said, there are songs that are getting a lot of “airtime” here lately.
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