Happy Mother’s Day! We spent the day at church, washing and waxing the car, running errands, working on earrings, and eating. I just needed to find a way to sneak a nap in there! When you are an adult, holidays are for being productive it seems. I can’t complain though because it’s always nice to get things done.

We actually had a fairly relaxing week and I was able to spend time visiting with some friends. One of them even gave the little guy his first hair cut. He was starting to look pretty shaggy! The kiddie pool also got pulled out of the shed and the kids are wanting to be outside almost every waking moment.

I’m looking forward to another uneventful week (crossing my fingers it stays that way) and hopefully being able to get the earrings, lip balms, and room sprays finished up for my booth at the herb festival. I need to have everything done 2 weeks from Friday and know it’s going to come up fast.

Suppers:

• Chicken Spaghetti (Velveeta and cream soup free) – Recipe coming! x 2
• Chicken Chow Mein x 2
• Bean Tostadas
• Leftover Mexican Chicken Rice Casserole
• Leftovers

Lunches:

• Mexican Chicken Rice Casserole (from one of the Heavenly Homemakers e-books)
• Taco Salad
• Salads
• Sweet Potatoes

Breakfasts:

• Green Smoothies
• Mango Lassi – Recipe Coming
• Pancakes from the freezer

Goals:

• Order earring cards
• Order labels for lip balm and room spray
• Start making lip balm/room spray and make more earrings
• Read from Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job
  
• Do the free 3 week Pilates Summer Challenge

What are you eating this week? Any goals you need to tackle?

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Life is crazy! I always think things are going to slow down and get better but I’m beginning to think that we might just have to find a way to make things work for our family going at this pace, at least for a while. After the craft show is over there won’t be a never ending to do list of things that have to be accomplished by a certain date. When life gets like this, I’m thankful for simplicity.

On a side note, I’ve found making earrings to be quite relaxing and enjoyable. It’s a fun way to spend an hour or so each evening and the perfect time to catch up on watching movies or television shows online. I need to have everything completed 3 weeks from Friday. I will be selling the earrings, lip balm, room spray, and mason jar lidded straw cups with a chalkboard paint rectangle. The lip balms and room sprays should come together pretty easily. I just need a couple hour block of time to work on them.

I’ll try to remember to take pictures of the earrings and other products to share soon!

Oklahoma is crazy! I think we’ve completely skipped spring. The number of perfect temperature days we’ve had are minimal. It went from cold to 100 degrees today. It’s only the first week of May! I’m a little scared for what the rest of the summer is going to be like.

I’m thinking the next month our menu might become even more basic than normal. On top of being busy and lacking time, hot weather also seems to decrease the desire to cook.

Suppers:

• Macaroni and Cheese
• Small Groups – brought a dessert and chips and salsa
• Ladies’ Bible Study for me and pizza bread at home
• Crockpot BBQ Chicken with Sweet Potato Rounds
• Leftovers

Lunches:

• Salads (for me and Shaun)
• Leftover macaroni and cheese
• Pizza Bread

Breakfasts:

• Oatmeal Banana Muffins
• Pancakes from the freezer
• Smoothies

Goals:

• Get the earrings done
• Figure out earring packaging
• Make the lip balm and room sprays
• Figure out labels for lip balm and room spray
• Figure out/make chalkboard rectangle on mason jars
• Read a chapter or two from Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job (really liking it)
• Write 3 blog posts
• Continue the new 30 day challenge I’m doing with a friend

Here’s hoping for the little guy to have a couple good nights of sleep this week. I’m thinking I’m going to need it. 🙂

What’s on your menu? What are you goals for the week? If you have any quick and healthy recipes (not using the oven is a huge plus) to share or advice for my craft show going ons I’d love hear from you too!

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What a week! We’ve had stuff going every evening, Saturday my husband had to work 9 hours, Thursday and Friday concluded the membership drive for our concert series and we also had the final concert of the season. The drive went well but was time intensive. The kids were troopers spending 8 plus hours away from the house both days and having to behave while I took checks and inputted information into the database.

Saturday morning was citywide garage sales and I found a couple of houses with little boy stuff and that doesn’t happen very often. Our daughter was excited to find a pair of tennis shoes she was needing and she’s fully stocked on the next size of clothes except for a couple of shirts. Yay for successful garage sale trips.

Once a year several churches in town spend Sunday morning doing yard work and clean up for the houses in their neighborhoods as a way to serve. The house we worked on had so many leaves and sticks it was unbelievable. My hands are sore from lugging countless trash bags of leaves to the curb. The little guy hung out in his stroller and wrap and sister helped pick up sticks and bag leaves. It was a fun and productive morning and the weather was perfect!

This week things should slow down a little and I hope to really start tackling getting things ready for an herb festival our city has every year. I am going to have a booth at it – my first ever!

Have you ever sold any thing at a craft show before? It will be a complete experiment. I’m sure lots of learning will happen.

Suppers:

• Popcorn, veggies, and mint chocolate banana “ice cream”
• Vegetable Soup x 2
• Bean Tacos x 2
• Coconut Flour Pizza
• Leftover Fried Rice

Lunches:

• Indonesian Fried Rice (This stuff is the best! Regular fried rice is tasteless after eating it)
• Leftovers from last week
• Slow Cooker Chickpea Curry (new recipe from  42 Simple & Healthy Dinners)
• Salad

Breakfasts:

• Healthy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (used oat flour instead of wheat. They were kind-of crumbly. Pretty good, just not a huge fan of the taste of stevia)
• Homemade Yogurt and Granola (using this cooking method)
• Smoothies or a new muffin recipe if we need it

Goals:

• Continue 28 days of Pilates and 30 day plank challenge (today is day 22)
• Publish 2 posts
• Write post for The Best Blog Recipes
• Research for another post
• Work on products for the booth at the herb festival
• Maybe read Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job and  Mansfield Park
• Another deposit record for the late coming memberships

What’s on your menu? What goals are you tackling this week? Have you ever sold anything at a craft show before?

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