Homemaking: Menu Plan and Intentional Living 10/31/11

Live an intentional life by planning your days...

FYI - My homemaking goals are listed below my Menu Plan.

Menu Plan

Almond Banana Pancakes - oh my goodness this was a total and complete flop. I made these once before and thought they were okay, but this time BLECH!!! Not sure what I did wrong. Gumbo - made this last week and I am sure if I would have followed the recipe it would have been better. I am seeing a theme here, everything is starting to taste the same to me because I haven't been following recipes.

Be sure to check out last weeks' grocery shopping trip: WeeklyGroceryShopping.com

Breakfast Menu Plan
Lunch - leftovers or whatever for me (kids eat school lunch and they typically provide lunch for my husband at work)

Dinners (we eat a primalish/paleoish diet with very limited grains):

1. I am making Flank Steak on Monday...again I didn't really follow the recipe. It's been marinating for several days so I'm hoping it's good.
2. Beef Stew 
3. Pizza for the kids, hubs is gone, not sure what I'll have yet
4. Taco potatoes (taco meat over baked potatoes)
5.  french toast recipe
6. LynnsKitchenAdventures.com Panera's Creamy Potato Soup (didn't make last week)
7. Hubby cooks - I always try to have meat on hand and he's great at whipping stuff up. Last week it was chili

For sides this week we have on hand green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, spaghetti squash, and carrots.

Other recipes I want to try:
pork chops, Qdoba's steak - SimplyRecipes , ThePioneerWoman steak bites


Note: KISS night (keep it simple silly - same thing every week) was on Wednesday. Burgers, green beans, baked sweet potatoes (for hubs and me) and smoothies. I'm not sure what I'm going to do instead....maybe a taco night. 3 out of 4 people were tired of burgers. I will be doing a KISS night next week, but not sure what it will be yet.

** Be sure to check back on Friday to see how primalish eating on a budget worked out for us!

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Homemaking Plan

Goal Setting posts:

• Homemaking Page 
• goal setting does NOT work for me 
• priorities 
• Goals vs. Priorities with an Action Plan

My one word this week (two words LOL):

slow down

There is definitely a pattern going on here. Pause, aware, and being present are goals that I've had in previous weeks. Now that I have a teen and a tween I think a lot about the time I have left with them. When do I enjoy them the most? When I allow myself to stop running around. I love being busy, but that's not always a good thing. When they want to just "hang out" it goes against my nature. A couple of weeks ago my daughter and I talked for two and 1/2 hours. We did NOTHING - it was fabulous!

We had so much fun playing around on Saturday night. We played foos ball and games on the wii. This time with our children is so precious and so short. How do you want your children to remember you when they are grown up? 

I want them to know that I had TIME for them. Obviously we can't sit around and do nothing all day long, nor can we play all day long either. I'm searching for a balance here. Any words of wisdom from people who have "been there done that"? Would love to hear it!

Check out other menu plans at:

Orgjunkie
11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven always has a lot of homemaking posts to read as well!

Do You Resent Homemaking?

I find it ironic that I, a person who has decided "homemaking" is my profession, can despise homemaking on occasion.

I was making dinner the other night and I wasn't enjoying it at all. I was in a hurry, trying to help my son with his homework and get him fed before he had to leave for youth group.

You know when I resent homemaking? When I don't have "margin" in my life. When I decide that other good things are more important than homemaking. My family deserves better than that! As a matter of fact, so do I.

I don't want to "just get through" another day. I want to enjoy it! Whether I'm making dinner, vacuuming or cleaning toilets. 

When I'm not "too busy" I enjoy all those things...yes I can even enjoy cleaning toilets (because I do it Flylady's way). So how do we create margin? 

Be very intentional.     

Choose GREAT things, not good things.   

Do you have any other tips for keeping margin in your life? I haven't read this post yet, but I'm about to..."Do You Need White Space" over at SimpleMom.

Weekly Grocery Shopping 10/28/11 Trip and Tip

My grocery shopping trip has been posted over at WeeklyGroceryShopping.Com.

Homemaking: Menu Plan and Intentional Living 10/24/11

Live an intentional life by planning your days...

FYI - My Homemaking goals are listed below my Menu Plan.

Menu Plan

Last week we tried the Ground Beef Curry from The Local Cook. Everyone really liked it - not a family favorite that they want me to make over and over, but we all enjoyed it (I probably liked it more than anyone because I LOVE strange combinations of food).

I tried LifeAsMom's Jalapeno Popper Potatoes. Well, I kinda / sorta tried them. I think if you made them like her recipe they would be OUTSTANDING! I'll have to tell you how I did it because it seemed easier, but I think bacon is probably key in this recipe and I didn't make any due to pure laziness.

Last weeks' grocery shopping trip: WeeklyGroceryShopping.com

Breakfast Menu Plan
Lunch - leftovers or whatever for me (kids eat school lunch and they typically provide lunch for my husband at work)

Dinners:

1. Gumbo - I'm going to try some variation of this...sounds like you need to add chicken broth from the comments (didn't try this last week)
2. Beef Stew - (didn't try this last week)
3. See one of the many recipes below....kind of depends on what kind of meat I can pick up at the butcher shop.
4. Tacos, refried beans (from the freezer) and rice.
5. KISS (keep it simple silly - same thing every week) Wednesday: Burgers, green beans, baked sweet potatoes (for hubs and me) and smoothies (I might need to change this...my family gets tired of hamburgers, but they never get tired of tacos). 
6. LynnsKitchenAdventures.com Panera's Creamy Potato Soup
7. Hubby cooks - I always try to have meat on hand and he's great at whipping stuff up. Last week it was chicken wings....I still want chili (I've said this for three weeks now)!

Other recipes I want to try:
MoreThanMundane posted this magic sauce recipe.
Flank Steak,  french toast recipe, pork chops, Qdoba's steak - SimplyRecipes 


** Be sure to check back on Friday to see how primalish eating on a budget worked out for us!

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Homemaking Plan

Goal Setting posts:

• Homemaking Page 
• goal setting does NOT work for me 
• priorities 
• Goals vs. Priorities with an Action Plan

My one word this week:

PAUSE

Pause to enjoy life - enjoy the process of everything I do from writing an ebook to creating calendars for Christmas. Pause before I speak to my husband....pause before I judge others. PAUSE. ENJOY LIFE.

ENJOY THE JOURNEY

During our family outing last week we saw peacocks - wish I would have had my camera! My daughter fell down while acting like a peacock, apparently she was fine because then started acting like the turkeys we saw. We heard the lion roar - kind of creepy! It's ironic that my husband ALWAYS wants to go on a hike. The three of us reluctantly go, but once we are out in the forest we LOVE it!!!

My kids talk to each other about school and school events instead of fighting. It gives us time to talk to our kids about a lot of different things - seems like they talk to us more because it's a safe environment?!?

My daughter is almost done with volleyball.
 We're both very sad - LOVE IT!!!

This is the decorating my son did last week - excuse the horrible picture taking skills....

Not my idea of a cute decoration!!!

Not sure where my son got his artistic talent....definitely not from me!
Caesar (the newest boxer) has to be in ALL pictures.

Check out other menu plans at:

Orgjunkie
11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven always has a lot of homemaking posts to read as well!

Guest Posting at Grocery Cart Challenge

FYI - I had the opportunity to guest post over at GroceryCartChallenge. Gayle's blog was one of the first blogs that I read that showed me how to reduce my grocery budget even further. Hop on over to GroceryCartChallenge and check it out!

New over at WeeklyGroceryShopping:

• this week's grocery trip WeeklyGroceryShopping.com
• Grocery Shopping: Steps to Success

Writing an ebook sure takes a lot more time than I thought it would. As I am working on that, I'm adding some of the worksheets to my blog.

We Live Paycheck to Paycheck

When I was trying to figure out when my husband would get another paycheck, I realized that most people think that living paycheck to paycheck is a bad idea.

It works well for us and here is why:

Any "extra money" gets transferred out of our checking account immediately and is put into our "mudflap" account. When I see $1.50 in the checkbook I tend to think that I probably shouldn't spend any money ☻.

For example, we were able to buy dog food on sale last week and saved $2.00. This $2.00 was transferred into savings. If you can find $2.00 every week that's $104 a year, if it doesn't "get lost".


Mudflap = random word my husband came up with when he couldn't remember the term Gazelle (from Dave Ramsey)


Posts you might be interested in regarding our journey following Dave Ramsey:

• Money Monday
• Kinda/Sort Plan
• Another "$100" Vacation

Check out more Frugal Friday tips at LifeAsMom.

Goals vs. Priorities With an Action Plan

Photo Credit

I've been mulling over the term "goals" again. When I received this comment yesterday from pieceLove I had to write more about the subject:

I read this book called The Way They Learn and it taught me so much. I am a concrete random thinker, and I think goal setting works against me - I'll leave all that to the sequential thinkers and just keep trying to outrun my own boredom. 

I haven't read the book yet, but it's rated extremely high on Amazon.

I have been trying to figure out why the steps in Amy's book "Tell Your Time" work for me. It's essentially writing down goals, however I think the key difference is that it's not random. You create your goals after determining your priorities and how much time you have available in a day. When I decided to set weekly goals I was doomed because I created a to do list (goals) that sounded good to me at that time without thinking about my "envelopes of time" (discussed in the ebook).

Apparently I thought I had 82 hours in a day and thought I should be working every single one of those 82 hours. For those of you with kiddos still at home, your priority during the day is your children.  I don't have kiddos at home during the day so my priority is to spend as much time with them during the afternoon/evening as I can.

When I focus on my to do list instead of my priorities, 

my day is messed up!

I will definitely have to read that book. I think it would help me learn a lot about myself and my family. Here is my review of Tell Your Time.

** this post contains some affiliate links **

Interesting Reading Around the Net

A bit of random reading around the web:

• Starches - The Great Debate in the Primal/Paleo World:
• Faithless by SarahMarkley
• The cutest apron!!!
• Review your purchases - a spreadsheet I created over at WeeklyGroceryShopping
• Love this post from Mary at CheckMateSystem. If you are new to eating at home this is a must read.

Homemaking: Menu Plan and Intentional Living 10/17/11

Live an intentional life by planning your days...

Menu Plan

Breakfast Menu Plan
Lunch - leftovers or whatever for me (kids eat school lunch and they typically provide lunch for my husband at work)

Dinners:

1. Gumbo - I'm going to try some variation of this...sounds like you need to add chicken broth from the comments.
2. Pizza Soup - we have a ton of leftover meat from a scrambled egg dish my husband made on Sunday so I'm going to use in this soup recipe.
3. volleyball game - ??? might be going out or eating something simple???
4. KISS (keep it simple silly - same thing every week) Wednesday: Burgers, green beans, baked sweet potatoes (for hubs and me) and smoothies. 
5. Ground Beef Curry from The Local Cook (my cilantro was half frozen and half slimy last week so I want to try this again - maybe I'll use dried) with roasted broccoli and carrots
6. Some variation of LifeAsMom Jalapeno Popper Potatoes. I think with ground beef and cream cheese.
7. Hubby cooks - I always try to have meat on hand and he's great at whipping stuff up. Last week it was a scrambled egg skillet....I still want chili!

Other recipes I want to try:
MoreThanMundane posted this magic sauce recipe.
Flank Steak,  french toast recipe, pork chops,


I want make steak like Qdoba's - any suggestions for a marinade and the meat? I saw this post from SimplyRecipes that looks good. This is a busy week for us so I might have to try it next week.

Grocery shopping looked a little strange last week, but be sure to check back on Friday to see how primalish eating on a budget worked out for us!

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Homemaking Plan

I've updated my Homemaking Page on my website with some of my goals. If you are interested, I wrote a post on why goal setting does NOT work for me however setting priorities does.

My one word this week:

AWARE

Aware of the words I speak, the tone I use, aware of other people who are hurting, aware of how I am spending my time.....AWARE....

My daughter is teaching my son how to make whipped cream.
We had popcorn, peaches and whipped cream along with our movie for our family night.

What is it with kids and not being able to get their own water? They ALWAYS drink my water! So this week my daughter was taking a drink of my water and I told her "PUT THAT BACK." Much to my surprise she did.

Yep, she spit it back into the glass! So NOT like her at all...totally cracked me up!

I crawled in bed with my son the other night to say goodnight. I thought he might be sleeping so I was surprised to see his hand going towards my head. I thought - oh how sweet he's going to pat my head...nope, he FLICKED MY HEAD! And here I was afraid of the tween and teen years....they are SO MUCH FUN! I love it!

Lesson learned: Do NOT dread the teenage years - embrace them!

Check out other menu plans at:

Orgjunkie
11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven always has a lot of homemaking posts to read as well!

HELP!!!

I need HELP!

All of my friends in real life are thinking "are you just now figuring this out woman?"

...thank you all so very much for responding. I am still looking for more people so if you haven't responded and want to please email me! Thanks!


I'm looking for the following people:

a)    A person who used to spend a great deal of money at the grocery store, but over time has been able to decrease their spending.

b) A person who is currently struggling with a high or really high grocery budget and you want to decrease your spending.

If you are one of these two people would you please please please send me an email? Let me know which person you are -     A or B

jaebroeder at yahoo dot com

I appreciate it very much!!!

Weekly Grocery Shopping

Check out my latest weekly grocery shopping tip and trip over at weeklygroceryshopping.com.

I'm having technical difficulty with my pictures so bear with me! You should read that as I deleted my pictures and shouldn't have LOL!

Homemaking: Zones

The Zone - another Flylady concept.

Here's how it looked one day last week when I worked in my zone the entry way.

5 minutes:

• shake out two rugs
• swept that area
• scrubbed the area where the dogs' food and water dish are

5 more minutes:

• cleaned the back door
• cleaned area where kids' shoes go
• wipe down two light switches

5 more minutes:

• 2 more light switches
• mop boards in entry way and hall
• wipe down banister
• wipe down front door

You can get a lot done in 5 minutes, but you have to be hyperfocused (that's another good time when an obsessive personality comes in handy.)

Does Flylady work for you?

This post has been linked to Works for Me Wednesday at We are THAT Family.

Homemaking: Menu Plan and Intentional Living 10/10/11

Live an intentional life by planning your days...

Menu Plan

Basic Egg Casserole was wonderful! It was a huge hit with everyone. Using fresh basil was mentioned in the comments - bet that would be yummy! Too bad I picked the basil from my garden and forgot it on the ground.

I forgot how much I love kale chips. My family....eh not so much....not bad, not great.

Breakfast Menu Plan
Lunch - leftovers or whatever for me (kids eat school lunch and they typically provide lunch for my husband at work)

Steps in planning....

1. Print out a menu planner and fill in all activities for the week that could cause interference with cooking (ie. sporting events, appointments, working late, etc.). 
2. Plan meals around these events. 
3. Make more food the nights you will be home so you can re-heat food the nights you are busy.
• For example, we will be at a cross country meet one night this week so when I make burgers for dinner I'll also fry 1 pound of burger for Carbonara.

Dinners:

1. Homemade Chicken Soup
2. Chicken Salad Sandwiches (no bread...maybe lettuce wraps? not sure we're at a volleyball game)
3. KISS (keep it simple silly - same thing every week) Wednesday: Burgers, green beans, baked sweet potatoes (for hubs and me) and smoothies. 
4. Carbonara roasted broccoli and carrots
5. Ground Beef Curry from The Local Cook
6. Lynn's Potato Soup (my comments) I'm bringing this to a party. I ate at Qdoba's, my husband and son went out to celebrate the end of cross country season and I'm not sure if my daughter ate as she was home alone! We didn't end up going to a party.
7. Hubby cooks - I always try to have meat on hand and he's great at whipping stuff up. I'm requesting chili!

Other recipes I want to try:
MoreThanMundane posted this magic sauce recipe.
Flank Steak,  french toast recipe, pork chops

Check back on Friday to see how primalish eating on a budget worked out for us!

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Homemaking Plan

I've updated my Homemaking Page on my website with some of my goals. If you are interested, I wrote a post on why goal setting does NOT work for me.

I'm in the middle of working through the steps in Amy's book "Tell Your Time" again and realized why it doesn't work for me. I don't know why that book has struck something in me, but every time I pull it out I learn something new. I suppose it's just the way it seems like she can relate to me personally.

My one word to work on this week (okay, two words):

Being Present

You know how your kids can be talking or your spouse can be showing something to you, but you are multitasking in your head: planning your menu, trying to remember something you forgot, balancing your checkbook, etc. They KNOW when you are doing this! This week, I just want to  be present when they talk to me...really listen to them and engage in conversation.

On a different note...I love going to all sporting events, but I think cross country is my favorite. I learned quickly that you should always wear running shoes to cross country events if you want to see your kid more than just one time at the finish line.

The last race my son had he fell down, had an asthma attack and got stuck in the crowd of kids. He said it was a great race. Seriously? Yep!

Recently my husband and I have decided to try and do something together as a family every weekend - we naturally all go our different ways. My daughter got to choose a game to play and then we had ice cream afterwards. She's 15 and she choose Candyland. We laughed at how much different the conversations are now that they are older.

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Check out other menu plans at:

Orgjunkie
11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven always has a lot of homemaking posts to read as well!

Weekly Grocery Shopping 10/7/11 Trip and Tip

My fabulous friend gave me 3 dozen eggs. Aren't they just beautiful? I admit at one point in my life I would have been freaked out because they weren't perfectly white eggs.

If you aren't interested in the details of my trip - be sure to skip to the bottom to read my frugal tip.

Black Hills Milk

• 4 lbs burger $16.00
• 1 quart raw milk $1.59
• Cheese $1.71 (I paid $2.00 of my own money - definitely a splurge but oh so good!)
• Total with tax $20ish

Lueders

• 2 lbs carrots $3.29
• 2 grapefruit $1.68 (yikes! $.84 each)
• 2 cans chicken broth $2.60
• 3 peaches $1.04
• sweet potatoes $3.51
• 3 lbs onions $2.29
• garlic $.55
• cocoa (for my concoction) $3.29
• ham $2.29
• Total w/ tax $22.63

Safeway

• Coffee $5.00
• Butter $5.00
• Bananas $1.30
• Avocados $5.00
• Total w/ tax $17.00

Walmart

• cream $3.58
• kale $1.18
• BBQ sauce $2.76
• 3 lbs apples $3.50
• Total w/ tax $11.50

Pantry

• Because we buy bacon and breakfast sausage from a place 40 miles away, I put money away to buy these items and then "pay back" my pantry money when I take items out of my freezer. Trying to figure out a new way to do this...but for now it works....that's where the rest of my money went.

Menu Plan and changes I made to it...there are always a lot it seems.

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SIMPLE FRUGAL TIP

To save money we eat what is on sale, not what we necessarily want. This looks a little different now that we buy most of our meat from local butcher shops, but the principle is the same. I don't buy steaks from the butcher shop I buy hamburger and roasts. We eat pork sausage or ground pork more often than German Sausage because it's cheaper.

Are you trading what you want 

most for what you want at the moment?

A couple more tips for you:

 instant gratification 

instant gratification again....apparently it was in my mind

Check out Life as Mom for more frugal tips! This post has been linked to Grocery Cart Challenge.

Recipe: Basic Egg Casserole

Recipe Review:

I got this recipe from Savannah's Savory Bites. She has the MOST beautiful pictures of food over at her site...makes me hungry! I've listed her original recipe and the changes we made.

Egg Casserole:

1/2 pound bacon, cut into small pieces (I used 2 slices bacon and 1/2 pound pork sausage)

1 onion, diced

12 eggs

1/2 cup milk (didn't have any so I added a little cream)

2 teaspoons basil (I have made many many egg casseroles, but this made a huge difference!)

1 cup sharp cheddar cheese

1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

salt and pepper to taste

Click over to her site for all of the directions....I baked mine at 350 for 45 minutes . My son who does not care for eggs ate this for dinner and asked for it at breakfast the next morning. I put homemade salsa over it.


I also think it would be good with some potatoes in it even though I can't eat potatoes in the morning or I am starving all day long.


I'm sharing this review at Grocery Cart Challenge.

Goal Setting Does NOT Work For Me

Path up at Roughlock Falls about 30 minute drive from our house.

Do you ever do something simply because you admire someone else and think if they do it then you should do it too? Goal setting is all over the Internet. I thought what  a fabulous idea! I will get so much more accomplished if I do this.

Did it work?

Ummmmm....not so much. After writing my menu plan and intentional living plan for the past two weeks I feel totally exhausted. In fact, when I read what OTHER people are doing I get exhausted.

You see I have this obsessive personality...don't know that I would so far as to say that I have OCD, but something like that.  Anyway, some things come sooooo easy for me. Take this diet change (AKA primalish diet)...I went from being a bread/pasta eatin' sugar lovin' gal to eating meat and fat lovin' gal.

That's the good part about being obsessive - the bad part is when you focus on something too much, you do not enjoy other things. I'm all about baby steps though....the whole one word concept works for me because it doesn't overwhelm me. I still want to be more intentional in how I spend my time, but I don't need to obsess about it.

My new one word:

INTENTIONAL

Is it just me? Does goal setting work for you or against you?

Homemaking: Menu Plan and Intentional Living 10/3/11

Live an intentional life by planning your days...

Menu Plan

Lynn's Creamy Potato Soup was a HUGE hit in my home. I didn't have enough chicken stock so I added some milk. Next time I'll try adding 1/2 block cream cheese instead of the whole block. My family absolutely loved it. I also served BBQ'd burgers - using 1 pound of hamburger, I made 5 patties. Side dishes were green peppers and tomatoes from my friends' garden. Everything was gone by the time we were done eating. Apparently people were starving!

Breakfast Menu Plan
Lunch - leftovers or whatever for me (kids eat school lunch and they typically provide lunch for my husband at work)
Dinners:

1. Peppercorn Steak using a roast (why is it peppercorn in the title if there aren't any peppercorns in the recipe?) I found over at The TestosteronePalace, carrots and peas. I can't say that I followed the recipe a whole lot, but I was able to use up a lot of the produce that my friends gave me! It was wonderful.
2. Basic Egg Casserole w/ homemade salsa and apples fried in butter w/ cinnamon maybe add a bit of cream cheese?, will add various veggies to the casserole. Delicious! Absolutely delicious!
3. Burgers, green beans, baked sweet potatoes (for hubs and me) and smoothies. This might be my KISS dinner for Wednesday nights. Both kids go to youth group at different times and we rarely eat together this night. I love it when I don't have to think!
4. Zuppa Toscana Soup (be sure to read their comments...I rarely follow the same recipe twice) w/ kale, roasted broccoli and carrots...forgot to make the roasted broccoli....this was fine but we really liked Lynn's potato soup from last week a lot better.
5. Something with a hunk of meat called soup bone, but has a ton of meat on it...any suggestions? I threw it in the crockpot with some water and let it cook on high for 4 hours. Added some arrowroot powder to thicken it added veggies, salt, pepper and garlic powder. It was good. Not great, but I don't usually like beef flavored soups and it was really pretty tasty!
6. Hmmmmmm.....Mockballs sound good and so do pork chops (with chicken I have in the freezer). I baked chicken. I still want to make those pork chops, but didn't have the items on hand.
7. Hubby cooks - I always try to have meat on hand and he's great at whipping stuff up. He's making steaks from the 1/4 cow we bought.

MoreThanMundane posted this magic sauce recipe - looks good!!! Flank Steak this will have to be on the menu in the future as I picked up that awesome looking soup bone with tons of meat on it.

Other recipes I want to try:
kale,  french toast recipe

I updated my plan from last week so you can see how we did. I must say that putting it on my blog has helped tremendously!

Check back on Friday to see how primalish eating on a budget worked out for us!

Homemaking Plan

Self (put self first - God created me first....)

exercise AKA move daily
time by the creek 3X per week
10 minutes every AFTERNOON "Still Water Time (Psalm 23:2)"

Spearfish Creek - LOVE LOVE LOVE it here!

Family First before Others

• Say/do something nice for my husband every day (boy this is hard!)
• 1 love language per day.
• "Cuddle time" with kids every day (not literally since they aren't fond of that, but alone time with them)
• LISTEN when they talk
• Make an "outing" plan. My husband is great at this. I told him I want to do something every weekend together and he's been making plans. This week I want to come up with something.

Others
walk with a friend

Card I made last week and sent out to several people.

Homemaking
15 minutes in zone Mon-Friday

Do something with the loads of tomatoes that I got from our friends


The following items will remain on here until they get accomplished, but I decided not to worry about them. 

Figure out plan for my pictures
Fix purple shirt
Clean off shelf

Misc
Stick to blogging schedule!!! This is a fun hobby for me, but I'm spending too much time on it. Maximum

• Mon - 30 minutes
• Tues - 4 hours
• Wed - 3 hours
• Thur - 4 hours
• Fri - 1 hour

Check out other menu plans at:

Orgjunkie
11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven always has a lot of homemaking posts to read as well!