Getting Through the Day

For some reason we cannot wake up in the mornig at our house. London has to be at school by 8:15 and Syd at 8:30 and Brandon usually has his first patient around 8:15. Well lately we have been waking up at 7:30. Now you tell me how you get five people ready by 8:00 to be out the door. All I can say is that it is a good thing we live in a small town and it only takes two minutes to get anywhere. But it throws off my whole day and attitude. I was determined to wake up this morning make eggs and bacon for breakfast the whole bit not yell at me kids etc. Instead I rolled out of bed washed my makeup off from the night before poored three bowls of cereal for the girls rushed them to eat yelled at them to get dressed, brush thier teeth, shoes and socks and manage to brush through the ratty hair to get a pony tail sign off homework pile in the car and make our daily drop offs. So after everyone was where they should be a took a deep breath went home and set up a circuit work out (situps and push up using yoga ball, pullups using pull up bar, sqats and lunges with free wieghts, tricep dips on bench and jump rope, repeated three times) for twenty minutes. Jumped in the shower and tried to figure out how to get throught the rest of my crazy day so that it was not so crazy. I decided on a crock pot dinner since I will be in the office until about 6 tonight. Ck Cacciatore is for dinner tonight. After going to the grocerey store yesturday ( I only spent $88 for the week) I cut up all the veggies I bought so that we have pre made snack handy and ready to go ( no more wondering what we have for snack or eating crap out of a box)

the good thing about it is that my kids love to eat thier fruits and veggies so why not have them ready for them to just grab instead of not having time to peel and cut everytime they want something. Another challenge today well this weekend is to potty train Cairo. She totally understands just refuses to actually do it, so I am refusing her the opportunity to wear diapers. So far she has had two accidents today one while I am posting this and she hates being wet so hopefully today is the start of no diapers for our house.

Right now is my calm before the storm. I have about 1 more hour before I have to get London from school, take the car in to get a safety inspection on it, drop girls off at play date, go to work for a couple of hours pick girls up and head back to the office until we are done tonight, return home to my yummy crockpot dinner, bathe kids, do homework and then hand the kids over to B because I am going back to the office tonight to get a massage!!! Yeah!!

Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

I always thought that was funny growing up and thought obviously you wouldn't right. Well when the kids go outside to play in the snow I have to remind them of this becuase our dog! In fact it is snowing today and what does the dog do first thing, she pees on my back porch becuase she is to cold and to woosy of a dog to go where she is suposed to.

Today the little ones and I are headed to the grocery store. I do not want to becuase it is snowing, I do not have all my coupons ready and I have to go to our local market instead of going up North. The good thing about it I guess is that I will save on gas and time. So here is our menu for the week:

Wed: Left over Pizza
Mexican Casserole

Thurs: Eggs/Bacon
Soup & Sandwiches
Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore

Fri: French Toast
Ck Nuggets/PB&J
Chicken Puffs

Sat: Breakfast Burritos
Leftovers
Slow Cooker Meatballs

Sun: Pancakes
Mac-n-cheese
Roast Beast and all the fixns

Mon: Cereal
Turkey Wraps
Slow Cooker Stew with leftover Roast Meet

Tues: Eggs/Bacon
Ck salad sandwiches
Fajitas

Wed: Homemade Mcmuffins
Leftovers
Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup

If you are intersted in any recipes just email me I get most of them from Kraft foods the link is up in my Favorites. What are you having for Dinner I would love to know?

Finally

Finally I feel like I have accomplished something. A big Thank you to Carly for the helpful insight as to my new blog template. I have been having trouble lately being organized and for those who know me well know that I do not usually suffer from such unorganization issues. I am hoping with this new blog layout that maybe I will be better at using it. I use to do so good posting daily and keeping my family informed about the girls. This year I want to use it more for personal reasons. I am hoping it will keep me sane, inspire me to be better and challenge myself to do new things. I have been inspired lately by all those bloggers out there who give themselves a daily, weekly goal for example check out here and here. My goal this year is to finish all my unfinished projects. Quilts, rooms in my house, photography and design projects, work projects you name it I have a list for it. So here is to checking things off the list. Speaking of checking things off the list, my girlfriend from high school emailed and asked if I would do her sons 1st birhtday invites. He is havinf a sock monkey themed party and asked if I could make something to go along with the theme. Here is what I came up with. I had never made a character from scratch so I was glad for the challenge. I unfortunately cannot take credit for these pics. They are from a great photographer out in California.