Monday, April 11, 2011

Menu Plan 4/10

Here is the menu plan for this week.  Its one of those busy weeks with to many activites at mealtime for the kids - so I must be creative.

  • Friday - delivery pizza
  • Saturday - Lunch: leftover pizza
  • Saturday Supper - Steak Sandwiches ( leftover steak), buns, tatertots, spinach salad
  • Sunday Lunch - out
  • Sunday Supper - DH cooked ;)  Paella  - we have enough leftover for lunches this week, and supper to, lol
  • Monday - ground beef - maybe slopy joes
  • Tuesday - Turkey, salad, sweet potatoes
  • Wednesday - Church night but I don't think we will make it to the Soup Supper in time, so I'm not sure - PB&J picnic, maybe
  • Thursday - ?? Concert night and grandparents are here, hope I have inspiration by then.
What's on your plan this week?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

No TV Day #6

On Friday morning I turned on the television, well attempted, I should say. I knew something was up when it was taking awhile to "warm up"...a few seconds later I heard a POP!  The bulb in the TV blew.  We had this issue with our older version of the same television. So no TV in the living room, not to big of a deal....we can watch the other one right?  Nope, it broke when we were attempting to add the adapter box to allow our ancient (10 years old) analog television to be connected to cable's digital only signal.  So that means we have gone six days with no functioning television in the house.  I really have not missed it.  However, I know others in the house have and will be glad to have the television fixed.

What have I learned in the meantime?
  • It did not take the kids long to adjust to no TV.  It just is, and they accept it, and I get to see a more creative side of them - Legos, Trio Blocks and Trains have had a workout.
  • Its amazing how quiet the house is after the kids go to bed without the television on.
  • Thank goodness for laptops and smartphones.
  • Garth Brooks still gets a lot of play on the country station - and they are songs I know from 10-15 years ago when I listened to a lot of country
  • Books - they do the brain good!
  • Eaglets hatching can be as entertaining as Curious George or Handy Manny!
We have also been enjoying the warmer, dare I say springlike weather of the last few days.  I just placed my first order with Johnny's Selected Seeds and now I really can not wait to get in the garden.  Now the debate begins - where to put things in the garden and will I get the garden in before the little one arrives? I should go dig up the garden and plant some spinach and salad greens, yum!

Monday, April 4, 2011

April 1 Meal Plan

Here is the basic menu plan for the next week or so...
  • Friday - pizza, out (was going to be delivery but Out worked too!)
  • Saturday Lunch - Out
  • Saturday Supper - Chicken Stir Fry with rice - quick and easy and lots of veggies, and leftovers for lunch on Monday
  • Sunday Lunch - Cheddarwurst, buns, chips, mand. oranges, and pickles, lol
  • Sunday Supper - Lasagna and spinach salad - garlic bread (or cheese bread) was not served but requested.
  • Monday - chicken that was thawed out will become somthing yummy!
  • Tuesday - Lasanga with salad and garlic bread (any left will be frozen)
  • Wednesday - Flank Steak
  • Thursday - Cheese Steak sandwiches, quesadillas or something with leftover steak.
  • Friday - Pizza :)
Original meal plan had chicken patties on thin buns (we call them flat bread, I can't think of the name right know.) but they will keep in the freezer until next week when we need a quick, no-brainer meal before an evening activity.  Still need to figure out what to do with mushrooms as I have 1.5 packages in the fridge that I forgot to throw into the lasagna.

Friday, April 1, 2011

No Fooling

So today is April Fools Day...I sat down and decided to turn on the TV early this morning...something was not quite right and as I was waiting for the TV to "warm up"  - not normal for this TV - I started thinking, "I wonder what's wrong."  Well I found out about 30 seconds later...the bulb blew on the TV.

Our old TV is also out of order thanks to Mediacom's upgrade to all digital TV.  When we were tryting to remove the coax cable to install the little converter box on our analog television something broke, so it can not recieve any input - antena, cable or dvd player.  UHG!

So today is going to be about spring cleaning, playing games and spending the day with NO working TV's in the house. 

PS. For the Record I don't like April Fools Spoofs or whatever thy are calling them this year...