Menu Plan Monday
With gas prices here at nearly $4 a gallon, it seems that I picked a good time for us to start trying to eat at home more. We’ve not eliminated eating out - I can’t see us ever doing that! - but we’re doing better at eating at home more often.
Here’s what we’re looking at this week…
Sunday - Spaghetti (We seem to be having this all the time, but the kids are eating it up & it’s got all of those Ninja vibes, so I keep making it.)
Monday - Smoked lemon pepper chicken, grilled zucchini, cucumber salad
Tuesday - Chicken and yellow rice (love that Crock-Pot!)
Wednesday - leftover Chicken and rice
Thursday - Mike, Griff and I are going to see the new Indiana Jones movie while Eliza stays with a sitter. I’ll have Mike pick up something for the girls, and the three of us will have movie food.
Friday - Hawaiian burgers (from Cat Cora’s recipe in yesterday’s Parade magazine … but with ground turkey instead of ground pork)
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A Quick Thanks
To everyone who left sweet comments and who sent emails about my Fear and Loathing post. I appreciate it. I went in with a positive attitude this morning, and that helped. We had lots of technical problems today that none of us could control, and it set us all behind. And yet, I didn’t get discouraged, and I never made a single derogatory comment about myself.
I’ve had this feeling before at various times in my past. I know that I need to do a few important things…
** I need to be reading my Bible and praying, even if I don’t feel a complete connection yet. I’ve been reading my Bible this week and working on Kay Arthur’s “Lord, I Want to Know You” book.
** I need to exercise more. Even if it doesn’t result in me losing any weight at all, it always makes me feel stronger and healthier. And I’m working on that, too.
** Now, this last one is WAY shallow, but I’ve got some shallow aspects. Live with it. I need to put more effort into how I look. My current job requires ‘business casual.’ It’s so much more casual than business. I now wear things to work that would have previously been in my weekend wardrobe. And I’m dressed just fine. I work in a call center environment, so I’m not at liberty to do much walking around. I fidget. I move around in my chair. I put my legs up under me and wrap them around the chair and anything to keep moving a bit. And it’s not easy to do that in either heels or a dress. So I’m pretty much flats and capris. Which is fine. But I know that - for me to feel pretty - I need to add a bit more jewelry and (talking all the time wears off my lipstick like you wouldn’t believe, so I’ve switched to just using the best lip balm ever during the day at work) whatnot.
I’ll keep you posted with my progress in all of this. I know this is a woman’s struggle that isn’t particular to me. I feel better knowing that. I also feel better knowing that I’ve had problems feeling bad about me in the past & have overcome them.
And now… this is quite enough posting for me for one night. We’re deep into Indiana Jones excitement here in our house, and we’ve agreed to let Griff watch the first three movies this weekend. We’re finishing the first one now & are about to start the second. And I’ve got jewelry to make.
Again, thank you. I’m grateful.
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