Week 2: Menu

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Well, we’ve had more than a week down. (When did I actually start this challenge?) This is what we have left on our Menu board:

  • Chili dogs and/or Fries – (Had these Saturday for lunch) Maybe not the healthiest meal, but we stocked up on Alexia potato products when Harps had them 2/$5 and they had $1 printables, making them $1.50 each. We also had a can of chili in the cabinet and plenty of cheese left over from last month’s Sam’s trip! (We use a lot of cheese.) And we happened to have some hot dogs left from last month too.
  • Tacos – (Had these Sunday for dinner) Yet another left over thing: taco shells. This includes the ground beef from Sam’s, beans left from last month, lettuce from the church garden, cheese from last month’s Sam’s trip and maybe even some tomatoes (if there are any left from Aldi).

The Garden: Planted?

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Finally got my garden box planted!! I had a free hour Sunday afternoon and tackled it pretty easily.

In the front right hand corner is some oregano that my sweet mom-in-law bought me this past weekend. (Look! I planted it Sunday, just like I said I would!) In the middle in the front, I planted some basil seeds. (I have basil growing in a pot, but it’s not growing very well, so maybe a do over is in order… or maybe I’ll just have twice as much!) And to the left in the front, I planted chives seeds. The middle is currently bare (why I planted the outsides first, I don’t really know), but as soon as I can get to Walmart, I plan to buy some spinach and lettuce.  And last, but not least, along the back I planted my tomato plants!!

It’s alive! It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!

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It has been a wonderful, glorious, rough past 3 (almost 4 months) making the transition into parenthood. Yes, that sweet baby is worth every minute of lost sleep, every ear piercing cry, every exploding diaper, but I would be lying if I didn’t say that it’s also been hard. Nothing anyone can say can possibly prepare you for the joys or the woes of being a first time parent. They’ll tell you you won’t sleep for a month, but until you’ve experienced it, you can’t really know the toll that no sleep can have on you. They’ll tell you that you’ll love that child more than life itself, but you won’t know the heart wrenching depth of that until they sleep for 5 hours the first time and you fear they have stopped breathing! (Can I get an Amen?)

Growin’ that Garden

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Monday during Avie’s naptime I finally made some progress on our garden box. Andrew and Arielle brought us a bunch of dirt from excavating their backyard and it needed to go into the box.

And this was after I had moved quite a bit. Oh, and yeah, that’s Seifer, just eating a rock he found in the pile…

Week 1(?): Menu

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Last week I did quite a bit of shopping to prepare for 2 weeks worth of meals. If you missed what I bought you can find it here. Here are some of the meals I have already come up with:

  • Red Sauce Pasta – Pretty basic idea we had this last Thursday night. Ansen made the penne from Target, used one can of red sauce & added some left over mushrooms and frozen spinach and ground beef.
  • Bruschetta – Inspired from Rachel Ray Every Day magazine I got a free subscription to a while back, though I did my own spin. This is where 1 can of tomatoes, part of a bell pepper and the french loaf bread come in. We actually had this Saturday and Sunday for lunch!