Mom's Weekly Meal Plan

I found a great site ...Amy @ Living Locurto. She has free downloads, menu plans, recipes, fun party ideas and crafts. One of my favorites is her...

FREE Weekly Menus!!!!!

She takes all the guesswork out of trying to come up with something for dinner. And she has 16 weeks of menus with recipes for each dish plus a printable grocery list!!!!! I'm in cook's heaven right now. Love it (in my sing-song voice, lol)!!!

I have been looking throughout her site for quite a while now. There are a lot of goodies there! Stop by and check it out!

Moments of pure dispair

Did you ever have a moment where you just wanted to die?!?! You say, "Lord, just take me now!!!" I had one of those moments this afternoon. I put the kiddos to down for a nap and when Chris came home, I went to check on them. Our 4 yr old was gone!

At first, I was calm figuring she was in the bathroom. Nope... not there. Our room...no. Sam's room...again, no. So now we are yelling for her...5 min later the house is torn apart, every closet empty, table turned over...nothing. She was no where to be found.

Now, the other two are up and crying, Chris is screaming, I'm reaching for the phone to call 911, praying frantically.

Finally, music to my ears! Chris yells, "I FOUND HER!!!" I about fainted. I flew up the stairs to our room and grabbed her up. He found her in the back corner under our bed and curled up in a ball, sound asleep.

I have never been so hysterical in my life! All I could think about was those precious babies where someone comes into the home and takes them while they're sleeping. I swear I aged 20 years in 15 mins.

When all is calm, my wonderful hubby looks over to me and says laughingly (him, not me), " and this was on your watch." Now comes the moments where I want to kill HIM, lol!

Wednesday's Journal

What’s happening in my home?….

In my kitchen…Mother Hubbard's cupboards are bare, lol. Finances were slim the last two week thanks to me. I did not stop completely at a stop sign but "rolled" through according to a cop. I don't agree but it cost me $120.00 :( So my food budget was slashed. No extra for us, but we did have some good dinners thanks to Aldi's! Lasagna, Chicken Parm, Meatloaf, Shrimp Scampi Pasta, Tuna Noodle Casserole. I do miss going the luxury to go out to eat :) My favorite restaurant Quaker Steak and Lube, AppleBee's, Marino's (local Italian place). Thank goodness payday is Friday and believe me I AM NOT "rolling" through stop signs any time soon.

With our marriage… So grateful that Chris is understanding and that it was funny that I got my first ticket and it wasn't for speeding.

With the children… do you want to babysit for me???? I have three, you can watch for a couple hours. That's the kind of week it's been.

Around the homestead… I am getting a dining room set!!! I found a Queen Anne style on Craigslist.com for $300.00. Table w/ leaf, 4 chairs, 2 captain chairs and china cupboard!!! We pick it up tomorrow!

In my “Inner Man”…. still reading the One Year Bible but I have to admit, I'm reading 2-3 days a time :( My "outer" man seems like she is being torn in 20 different directions.

One Year Bible- Week 2

I am soooo behind...... in posting this, lol. You thought I was going to say in my weekly reading, didn't you?!?! Well, I am, by three days now. Life never seems to slow down around here. It seems like it is on one speed... accelerated!!!!

The Word is manna to our spirit man. We can't live without it. If we do, then we are malnourished in our daily walk. I have been guilty this passed week of saying, "I'll make up for it tomorrow".

I want to encourage you, and me, to keep striving this week to keep our time in the word. We'll thank ourselves for it later!

Bloggy Awards

I feel like I should put on a red carpet gown....Just Kiddin!!!! I was blessed with a nice award from Jen @ Simple Pleasures.

The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity & creativity

inspires others in the blogworld!

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I'm sharing this Sunshine Award with:

1. Jen- Simple Pleasures

2. Mimi- He&Me+3

3. Sue- Life is the Lemonade You Make

4. Glenys- Morning Cuppas With Glenys

5. MamaBear- Bears in Exile/Return Home

One Year Bible- Week 1

So how is everyone doing? Were you able to get all the readings in this week? I'm a day behind. I was three days behind because I started three days later than everyone else. Everyone got their Bible's Sunday, I got mine Wednesday. I know I'll catch up, but to me, it's not a race. It's a daily journey.

For Sunday night service and bible studies, our pastor is going to preach on something that we read. Tonight, he preached on Psalm 9:1-2

¹ I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;

I will tell of all your wonders.

² I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

He pulled out the key word... WILL. This is an action on our part.

The four points... I will PRAISE, I will TELL, I will BE GLAD/REJOICE, I will SING.

Keep up the good work you are doing in meditating on the Word. If you haven't, that's okay, tomorrow is a fresh new day.

News that I rather have NOT have gotten

Hubby took our youngest to the doctor today for her checkup. She's fifteen months now.

Em is growing perfectly in height, weight, head. Everything seem normal to Chris until the doctor kept listening to her chest. The doctor detected a heart murmur. He told Chris that he wanted a pediatric cardiologist to check her out.

When Chris told me, I kinda flipped. Why? Because working in the medical field, there are questions I would have asked and all Chris could tell me was "I don't know, he didn't say." Talk about peeved. I was upset at Chris, upset at the doctor, upset at work. This is the time I wish I didn't have to work. I should have been there! All the nurse would tell me when I called was, "we're referring her to Dr so and so".

So that's been my great day. Please keep her in you prayers!