Meal Plans Week of 1-2-11

Back to normal life this week.  Our activities resume.  Justin goes back to work.  Time to get motivated and get a few things done.

It was nice last week to have Justin around and get some odds and ends taken care of.  We did a fair amount of shopping and got a new vacuum, a space heater for Rebecca's room, a toaster oven, one baby item, got a tune up for the mini van, returned/exchanged a couple Christmas gifts and closed on our house (refinanced).  I narrowed down my new cell phone options to 2.  I think I know which one I want (it's just a free upgrade).  I have to order it still.  We took down the tree and all of the Christmas decorations.  And have started reorganizing the house.  I squeezed in a little baking.  Rebecca was very excited to use her new dishes from Uncle Jason and Aunt Julie to bake!  We made graham crackers and chocolate cookies (for Kindermusik this week).

Now it's back to the usual routine.  Although with one major change...Rebecca will be sleeping in a regular (toddler) bed for the first time tonight!  I'm hoping it goes smoothly and she still sleeps well.  Aside from that, today is church.  Monday is gymnastics, and I want to make a stop at Harvest Health (very handy that HH and gymnasitcs are about 60 seconds apart:).  Tuesday is groceries and milk pick up.  Wednesday we have our end of semester Kindermusik family party in the evening.  So we'll have to have dinner pretty early that night.  Friday is MOPS.  Saturday we are going to a Calvin basketball game with my family and having them over for dinner.

I'm not 100% sure on my extras for this week yet.  I definitely want to bake and freeze the rest of our squash.  I need to keep working on my house cleaning/organizing.  Although I feel like I'm somewhat stalled until we figure out the furniture situation for Rebecca's room.  Then I can figure out what will stay in the living room and what will go in her bedroom...and get appropriate organzing bins for everything.  Maybe I'll have to work on the basement until then.  I am giving a fellow MOPS mom some sd starter this week, so I need to be sure to feed that and write up some directions/recipes for her.  I'd also like to get back into sewing this week.  I never got around to measuring Rebecca last week.  So I have to do that first.  Then I can try making her pj pants.  That's about all I have planned.  We'll see how the week goes.

In pregnancy news, this little one is really starting to make his/her presence known.  Some strong kicks these days.  You can even see my belly move sometimes.  Maybe another little soccer player :)  Rebecca has been able to feel the baby kick several times.  She thinks it's so funny.  I have now passed the 21 week mark.  And our tentative c-section date is May 9.  Still waiting on confirmation.  So only 18 weeks to go!  Kind of scary.  We have a lot to do yet to prepare.  Hopefully we'll make some good progress this month.

That's what's planned for the week.  Here's what's on the menu:
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S (prep lunch, cook beans, clean in basement, church, change crib to toddler bed, review EFT, co-op order, make hot fudge, measure Rebecca)
  B - yogurt, crispy nuts, peas, corn, beans (me), breakfast cookie, fruit (Justin)
  L - cp rice and beans w/ corn, peppers and peas added, w/ avocado, cheese and salsa for toppings, pearsauce
  D - sausage links, hashbrowns, beans

M (bake/freeze squash, sd recipes, order bball tickets, order makeup, HH, gymnastics, put away laundry)
  B - sausage links, avocado, beans, hashbrowns, oranges
  D - ham, cheese and squash egg puffs, broccoli, pearsauce, cinnamon raisin bread

T (sewing, Meijer, milk (Justin took care of this...I have the flu), soak beans)
  B - leftover egg puffs, avocado, toast
  D - pork chops and apples over rice, peas, squash

W (prep dinner, Meijer, KM (evening))
  B - maple pecan scones, leftover egg puff, avocado
  D - (early/light) - crockpot ham and bean soup, rolls; leftover rice and beans, squash; treats at KM

Th (prep smoothies, feed sd, sewing, soak beans)
  B - strawberry, pineapple, peach, avocado kefir smoothies
  D - baked catfish, baked potato wedges, broccoli tomato soup (from freezer) and grilled cheese

F (cook beans, clean, make kefir, MOPS, make taco seasoning)
  B - scrambled eggs, avocado, toast
  D - white bean sausage soup and veggie chili (from freezer...we'll see who gets which:), crackers w/ cheese

S (prep dinner, laundry, basketball game, family over)
  B - yogurt, granola
  D - taco/nacho/salad bar - I'll provide taco meat, tortilla chips, tortillas, sour cream, avocado dip, salsa and beans.  My SIL is bringing shredded raw cheese, lettuce and homemade french and ranch dressing.