Meal Plan for October's Every Day Life

 

We had a lovely vacation.  We ate some of what I thought we might (on last week's menu plan) and came home with no more than we left home with.  That's always a challenge to me, not to bring home more than I left with.  

I try to take down just enough food to carry us through three meals (supper, breakfast and lunch) and then we shop for the remaining meals once we arrive.  We go into the store not with a list of ideas, but with a number of meals in mind.  I knew we'd be eating out one meal, and so we planned to have 8 meals.  Those meals were based on ease of preparation and clean-up, what we felt we wanted to eat, and how shocking the price of some items were so that we retrenched and thought things over again.

To Do List: September Out, October In

 

It's a straddle week.  September closes out and October eases in.   Towards the end of the week, it rained and cooled off a bit.  I'm grateful for that.

I know I shared my Journal for the week a bit late this past week, but now you know why.  But play time is over and we're getting right back into routine work.   

Journal of My Days: To Be Continued...

Saturday:  We went to small group last night.  All the way over to Warner Robins, John and I were busy killing ants that had gotten in the car.  I'll bet we killed 200 between us.   They were everywhere, including on the ceiling.  They kept crawling onto or dropping down on us.  

I dropped John off at the church and went around the corner to get some ant spray.  I drove back to the church, let the windows down and sprayed that car down.  We've been fighting ants for two months now.  It happens when it rains that they move into the car.  There's not a food source there.  It's just high ground, but once they move in, getting them to move on is impossible.

Grocery Haul for the Third Week of September

 

I know I said I wasn't going to shop for the third week in September but...

There were a few sales too good to pass up and some outages and I decided to make a run today (September 17).  I meant to take a photo of it all, as it was rather impressive for what I spent.  Not a huge haul but it was not a small amount of food that I carried out in a single bag, which has happened at times with a greater amount of money spent!

Meal Plan for the Fourth Week of September: From Scratch

 

My goal coming into this week was to have little to no leftovers, no gathered fragments.  Just to see if I could be better at planning quantities/portions for us.  Well, I do have a bit of leftovers to deal with this week despite my best efforts.

To Do List: September is Moving Fast

I like to come to the end of a week with a feeling of accomplishment.  I just do.  This past week was a not a great week for accomplishments.  This weekend was a busy one.  The weekend before this was a busy one. I was tired coming into the week behind us and I'm tired coming into this new week.    I said I'd give myself grace if I didn't accomplish all I'd planned.  Now I have to live up to that, don't I?  

Journal of My Week: Scrambling Hard, Still Tired

 

Friday afternoon:  Josh and I had a lovely time at lunch today with lots of conversation.  And y'all...this boy, just 10 years old, is such a lovely gentleman. He held my car door for me, he insisted on opening doors for me.  I was amused, and pleased and flattered all at once.  

He talked pretty much non-stop, and I was able to converse intelligently enough that at one point he stopped and said "Wait, Gramma!  You're talking science to me!"  lol.  We did talk of science and games and at one point we talked about the responsibility and the problems of being the oldest child with younger siblings.  "You were an oldest child, weren't you Gramma?"  "Yep."  "Then you really do understand."  Indeed, I do.