I’m hoping this is the week life sort-of gets back to normal and I can spend more time blogging and reading. We survived the Herb Festival and spent yesterday afternoon getting the Kitchen, Dining, and Living Rooms halfway put back together. Cleaning as been on the back burner lately and it’s showing. My dining room table is cleared off and we will actually be able to eat on it again. (Picture of what if had been looking like is here.) My hope is that by the end of the week we can have the house completely cleaned.

The Herb Festival was a fun day. A couple friends hung out all day and helped set up and tear down which made the entire process easier and more enjoyable. If you are going to have to be someplace for 10 hours, I highly recommend doing it with a friend. Being able to talk and browse other vendors together made the day go by much faster than it would have otherwise.

After not going grocery shopping for over 3 weeks, it finally happened today! I’m so glad to be restocked and have plenty of vegetables in the house again. I didn’t have supplies for me to have salad for my lunches last week and I missed it. Looking forward to enjoying them again this week.

Suppers:

• Pizza (and cherry pie brought by our friends)
• Popcorn
• Sweet Potato Chicken Curry
• Scrambled eggs and chicken sausage (found the meat on clearance)
• Bean Tostadas
• Cashew Chicken
• Leftovers

Lunches:

• Leftovers
• Burgers
• Salads (Shaun and me)
• Rice Noodle Mac and Cheese (the kids)

Breakfasts (however many of these we need):

• Yogurt and fruit
• Smoothies
• Gluten Free Muffins of some kind
• Buckwheat pancakes

Goals:

• Get the house clean!!!
• Read Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters and Praying or Boys: Asking God for the Things They Need Most by Brooke McGlothlin. I also want to start Lisa Jo Baker’s book. Maybe I’ll actually have time this week.
• Add a store page to my website.
• Blog!
• Get in a new exercise routine now that the pilates series is over. (I might go through it again and try to add in some running)

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Last week was filled with getting ready for a mini trip away with my husband’s family and preparing for the Herb Fest. 5 days until show time! The good news is that all the lip balms, room sprays, earrings, and mason jars are made! My brother-in-law designed some really cool labels that I need to print and stick on the lip balms tubes and room spray bottles and then we need to test out some display ideas, get a bunch of change and I think we are as ready as we’ll ever be! Next Monday I can hopefully give an update of how it went. One huge variable is that the festival is outside, so if it’s yucky out the turnout always suffers. It will be a learning experience no matter what though. I’m getting excited.

This is what my dining room table currently looks like and this doesn’t even show the room sprays that are stacked in the entryway.

I think they enjoyed our little trip away!

Suppers:

• Grilled Chicken Alfredo with carrots and pineapple
• Chipotle Style Burritos
• Vacation Dinner Out x 2
• Pizza

Lunches:

• Salads
• Vacation lunch out x 2
• Picnic Lunch

Breakfasts:

• Baked Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies
• Granola Bars
• Cereal
• Fruit

Goals:

• Finalize Herb Festival Preparations (I’m sure this will take up way more time than I think)
• Unpack car/get caught up on laundry
• (affiliate links) Start Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters and read from Praying for Boys: Asking God for the Things They Need Most by Brooke McGlothlin (Maybe. . . not counting much or any happening though)
• Continue the free 3 week Pilates Summer Challenge (maybe jog once)
• Research another point and shoot camera to replace our broken one and a convertible car seat for the 1 year old

(Yes, there’s a lot of carry over from last week. Why do I think I lot of them will be reappearing on next year’s list too. 🙂 )

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3 day weekends are the best! This ones couldn’t have come at a better time. We were able to make good progress on Herb Fest crafts. Hopefully everything will be done by Friday and then next week I can work on table display ideas. Less than 2 weeks to go!

Here you can see a little of what has been happening:

I’m not what I’d consider a creative crafty person, so I was a little surprised to find myself actually enjoy sitting down and putting together earrings and planning for this. It’s been a fun experience so far and I’m sure the actual craft show will be an adventure too.

Our little guy that turned one last week has cut two of his molars and is working on the others and is walking more and more everyday. He already quickly makes a mess of things and I have a feeling that will only be getting worse.

My yummy pizza from the grill! Feta cheese makes anything better.

Suppers:

• Graduation Party
• Chicken Burgers, Sweet Potato and Russet Potato Oven Fries, Fruit
• Popcorn and fruit snacky supper
• Leftover Slow Cooker Chicken Curry
• Leftover Tostadas
• Cheese Pizza on the Grill

Lunches:

• Bean Tostadas
• Slow Cooker Chicken Curry (new recipe)
• Lunch Out
• Salads (me and Shaun) and sandwiches (our daughter)

Breakfasts:

• Smoothies from the freezer
• Pancakes from the freezer
• Oatmeal

Goals:

• (affiliat links) Start Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters and read from Praying for Boys: Asking God for the Things They Need Most
  by Brooke McGlothlin
• Price earrings, finish room sprays (ran out of some supplies and had to order more) and mason jars by Friday, start labeling room sprays and lip balms.
• Have friends over for dessert
• Continue the free 3 week Pilates Summer Challenge (maybe jog once)
• Research another point and shoot camera to replace our broken one and a convertible car seat for the 1 year old

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The countdown to the Herb Festival and my first craft booth ever continues. Less than 3 weeks to go! I got all the earrings finished, earring cards in, started the room sprays and mason jars. This week the plan is to finish the jars and room sprays and tackle the lip balms.  If I have time, I need to come up with display ideas for my table. It’s will be here before I know it and we will be gone 4 of those days. Aack.

These days have been relatively uneventful as far as the calendar is concerned. It’s a good thing though because we have enough projects around the house and getting ready for the craft sale to keep us busy enough. In fact, it’s kept us so busy we had leftovers for dinner 5 nights last week. Getting through the next 3 weeks and then hopefully we’ll find a new kind-of normal. For a few weeks anyway.

Our little guy is turning one tomorrow! I can’t believe that it’s been a year already since he was born. We keep celebrations pretty simple around here, especially when he’s little enough he won’t know the difference and things are so crazy! He’s getting super close to walking. He’ll take a few steps here and there but his record is only 4 steps. One of these days he’ll take off.

Suppers:

• Cookout at a friend’s home from church
• Sweet Potato Chicken Curry
• Cheese Pizza on the Grill
• Leftovers
• Graduation Party

Lunches:

• Asian Chicken Salad
• Graduation Party
• Salads
• Sandwiches

Breakfasts:

• Yogurt
• Oatmeal Pancakes
• Fruit

Goals:

• Start Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters. I finally finished Quitter and loved so am looking forward to diving into this one.
• Herb Fest Crafts: Finish rooms sprays, lip balms, and mason jars by Memorial Day
• Deposit Record and Board Meeting for the Concert Series
• Continue the free 3 week Pilates Summer Challenge
• Vacation Lists

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