A menu plan for our first week of school

Poppy turned 9 on Friday, and we spent eight hours at a water park. I got my feet tangled in my purse and fell out of the car onto the sidewalk, and I got my first legitimate hug from my 11-month-old nephew. Take the good, take the bad, take it all and there you have an overall pretty great weekend. (Water park fun + baby hugs > dinged-up knees.)

Monday: Breakfast for dinner
It’s been too long since I’ve microwaved veggie sausages.

Tuesday: Sweet and sour chicken
I forgot to thaw the chicken for last week’s stir fry. Hopefully I’ll remember this week.

Wednesday: Hanburgers
It’s Pete’s Choice this week. He usually asks for cheeseburgers, but this week he requested the “Star Wars” version. Complete with Jabba Jiggle Jell-O.

Thursday: Poppyseed Chicken
We enjoyed this so much the last time I made it that I set it to repeat on my calendar. I’m looking forward to Thursday.

Friday: ???
We’ve been trying to get to my in-laws’ house for the last several Fridays for dinner, but the fates have not been in our favor. Maybe this week no one will be ill or otherwise indisposed.

Today was our first day of school. Poppy started fourth grade, and Pete started first. Our co-op, which hasn’t started yet, meets on Mondays, so Monday is our lightest day of at-home assignments. Which means the kids were finished with their first day of school by 10:15 this morning. Now they’re playing video games, and we’re going to the playground after I hit the “publish” button here. Not a bad way to start the year.

What’re you up to this week?

I’m linking this up with OrgJunkie.com’s weekly Menu Plan Monday thing.

I’m slightly sleep-deprived, and that’s no state in which to write a sensical post title

Poppy wanted a slumber party this year for her birthday, so we had eight little girls in our house on Saturday night. It went swimmingly, they had a great time, and I am still tired. One week from today, we’ll be starting the school year. So we’re taking it super, super easy this week. My calendar looks, for the most part, like a field of freshly fallen snow.

Monday: Tacos
Rockford wanted Crunchwraps. We compromised.

Tuesday: Cheeseburgers
We never had Pete’s cheeseburgers last week, so we’re having them tomorrow instead.

Wednesday: Fish sticks
And this week it’s Poppy’s Choice, so we’re having fish sticks.

Thursday: Kung pao chicken
This was the rest of the Crunchwrap Compromise

Friday: Poppy’s birthday!
I’m not sure what we’re having yet.

I’m linking this up with OrgJunkie.com’s weekly Menu Plan Monday thing.

Return to the Planet of the Homebody

We drove more than 5,000 over a nine-week period between May and July. We visited family, played at Disney World, celebrated a life well-lived and spent time with friends we hadn’t seen in a decade. It’s been an exhausting and wonderful summer. I’m so grateful and glad that we were able to do so much, and I’m equally grateful and glad to be back home and sleeping in my own bed and making my own meals.

Monday: BLAs
That’s a bacon, lettuce and avocado sandwich. Nothing blah about that.

Tuesday: Chicken sausages and mac & cheese
Easy, and it makes everyone in the house happy.

Wednesday: Cheeseburgers
Because it’s Pete’s Choice night.

Thursday: Undetermined

Friday: Pizza
Did you know that Trader Joe’s sells bags of pizza dough for $1.19. They do, and they’re great.

I’m linking this up with OrgJunkie.com’s weekly Menu Plan Monday thing.