We are in the middle of so many projects. I just feel like I'm twitching - everywhere I look around I see piles of stuff. We are working on re-doing the front deck so there is a pile of boards on the deck and in the garage, we are turning Steve's room (we still call it Steve's room from before we got married when Doug's friend Steve was renting a room), anyway we are turning Steve's room from the treadmill/guest bed/Doug's closet, storage place, into Jeanie's room so we are trying to figure out what to do with all the stuff that was in there. We need to find 'home' for everything that was on a huge bookcase, a closet full of stuff to give her a space, and piles of crap that's been in there for years. So I am stressed. Doug keeps saying 'we're not going to buy a new house just to have a place for our treadmill!!', but more and more I just feel like our house is too small! Anyway, we are making due, but in the midst of it, it feels messy and cluttered.
Some random goings on:
We see the same little boys at the park almost every time we go, that's fun.
We have a hole in the yard where bees are flying out. Any ideas?? This worked for a bit, but they're still there. Poor Doug got stung on the back of his leg and it was red, swollen, and painful for several days.
Mowing boys!
Jeanie had her 4 month appointment and the doctor said she has a little reflux, so we are trying probiotics and she'll go back to the chiropractor
We went to the hot air balloon festival with some friends, it'd be fun to go up in one someday!
Jeanie hanging out on the deck while mama and daddy were working on it.
I just love these 2 little faces in my rearview mirror. We went to TJ Maxx today. I pretty much held her the whole time while August sat in the cart singing Baby Baluga at the top of his lungs. Haha, full hands, full heart!
In other news, meal planning is back! I'm tired of it getting to be dinner-time and me scrambling to make something. We also somehow spend nearly $450 a month on food (and that doesn't include going out), how is this possible for 2 adults and a toddler?!?! So a couple weeks now on Sunday I'll sit and look at the calendar and see what's going on and then what to make. And then we go grocery shopping together. I'm hoping to use up all the extras in the pantry and freezer first, and then eventually we'll pretty much just stock the necessities for breakfast and lunches and then whatever I'll make for the dinner meal. And hopefully we will save money too.
This week looks like this:
Monday-
Honey garlic chicken stir fry
Tuesday - tacos
Wednesday - (mom babysits/ Anne work) vegan meatball (from Aldi) hoagie sandwiches with mozzarella and roasted cauliflower
Thursday -
Pesto chicken stuffed shells
Friday - (Lake day at a friends) bring: Lentil and Wild Rice salad and rice krispy treats
Saturday - (Anne work) Chipotle
Sunday - (Anne work) freezer pizza and salad
Monday - (Anne work) Chinese freezer kit and rice
Poor Doug will have the kids for three 13+ hour days in a row while I work the weekend and the holiday, so definitely want to go easy on him with freezer meals.
I can't tell if it's cheaper yet, but it has taken down the dinner-stress level a lot already!
Trying to teach August how to ride his balance bike, he was not interested. But yesterday we went to my cousins and he was zooming around on his second-cousins' balance bike, so maybe he'll be into his now??
Video won't work, but he loves to help me sort the silverware. Starting the chores already! :)
Baby girl growing so fast.
Before church exercise with mom.
Sometimes at church there is a little photo shoot area set up, who knows why, but I helped myself and got these great shots of my handsome little man!
Then we headed over to my cousin's house to play and have supper. She is blessed to have 6 children. All home-schooled and love God and just such a wholesome, musically talented, happy family. The kids played for hours outside, I love it since I'm mostly boring stay-inside mom (besides going for walks). I loved August getting all the fresh air.
Why yes I can eat a cookie with one hand and mow with the other.
Who knew scooping handfuls of sand into a little digger could be so fun.
These little piggies are going to market soon, waaaaah. Not everything on the farm is happy! But at least they know where their meat comes from and had happy lives, so that is good.
We had nice talks and the kids played, we ate delicious chili and fresh baked bread and got send home with leftovers, a jar of honey (they are beekeepers too!), and a jar of sourdough starter to start my own baking :)
It was a good weekend. This morning it was off to the post office and then getting a couple things at TJ Maxx with my babies. It is so hard to get out of the house with two. I woke up before 7 and still couldn't make it out the door before 10:30 between breakfasts for everyone, nursing, pumping, waiting for naps to finish, multiple diaper changes, etc, it just is so frustrating! Love my sweet babes though, they do make life more fun.
