Happy Mother's Day!

I hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day. Thought I would share a picture of me with the two boys that make me a mother. I love them both more than words can say!

Menu Plan Monday....

We are watching our cholesterol intake around here, so I've been on the search for some tasty food for us. I've not been doing so great on menu planning and I'm trying to get back on track. It isn't just menu planning, but household schedules in general. At one point, I was so great about having a cleaning schedule and menu planning and I long to get that back. My household really did run so much smoother then. It isn't that my house is a pig pen because I haven't been great about a schedule, though. The thing was that I had things that I did each day and now I just do it all at once. Breaking it into smaller sections was so much easier, though.

Anyhow, on with the plan for this week! :-)

Monday-- pasta with "alfredo" sauce, salad

Tuesday--veggie burgers and fries

Wednesday--veggie stir fry with Chinese noodles

Thursday--artichoke tomato pasta, veggie meatballs, green beans

Friday--baked tilapia, coconut lime rice, steamed veggies with basting oil

My recent visitors!!

We live in a very diverse neighborhood. It's true....just check out who has been visiting the last few days! :-)

A construction worker....

Spider man...Amazing!!

And a cowboy! What cracks me up is he is wearing a bandana (with skulls and crossbones that is intended to be worn on the head as a pirate) around his neck to be a cowboy! :-)

Menu Plan Monday...

It's been a long, long time, but I'm trying to get back into menu planning. My bank account will thank me for it. :-)

Monday-- Not sure yet....I need to grocery shop tomorrow, so may just grab something easy
Tuesday--Chicken pasta, steamed veggies
Wednesday--Philly cheesesteak and fries
Thursday--chicken fried rice, stir fry veggies
Friday--baked tilapia, coconut lime rice, steamed veggies with basting oil

Also going to make some pasta salad to have on hand for lunches and some granola bars for snacks. I'm also going to make these granola bars. I'm searching for a good recipe to do homemade ones because Lucas loves them so much.

Five!!

Five years ago, I worked all day to finish up the little details to have a clean house and a stocked pantry. I picked my dad up from the airport and we went to Costco. That night, my back was super sore and I realized....I was in labor!!! I was supposed to be induced the next morning, but my sweet Lucas wanted to come early. I'm so glad to have him in my life!! :-)

As a side note, our home was robbed and my camera and laptop are gone, so I currently don't have any pictures to post of my sweet boy. This has made me treasure this blog even more.....I have so many pictures and memories here and they can't steal that!

This is fun.....

I can't believe it, but my baby will turn 5 at the end of February! It simply does NOT seem possible!

And since he will be 5, I figured it was probably time that I take down the baby gate in the hall (it was up to keep him out of the kitchen, bathroom, and from the stairs going up to the bedrooms)! :-) I mean, he CAN open it now and all! So, today while cleaning house, I took the gate down and did a little bit of re-arranging of things.

Lucas loves routine and structure, so he wasn't so sure about the changes. I moved the bookshelf from the living room into the hallway and moved the entry table back into the living room from the hallway! Funny how just those few things can make such a difference. As my husband said "taking that gate down made the hall look a lot less claustrophobic". I must say that I agree. :-)

And just for fun, here is a video of the boys playing. Just another normal day in our household.....

Snow!!

Lucas LOVES watching the snow....oh, and "Icspicable Me"! :-)

Date night!!

Tonight, Logan and my husband went to see Harry Potter and Lucas and I stayed home. We had lots of fun! We watched Beauty and the Beast. Lucas started the movie in one of his favorite spots to sit (the coffee table)....
and ended the movie in his other favorite seat (my lap!). :-)Lucas tried on all of his Christmas hats. The boy loves hats and his momma loves a good deal. I found them on clearance for 25 cents!! He is wearing two Christmas tree hats and one Santa stuck in the chimney hat!And, we listened to a song (and watched the video on Youtube) that I've been singing to Lucas and he loves, but he had never heard the whole song before:

Money talks!

My husband was upstairs trying to get Lucas to come up so he could get him ready for bed. I was ushering Lucas that way and he spotted his train puzzle all apart on the floor. We had just finished putting it together and Lucas was looking for something else to delay him when his daddy said, "Lucas, I've got some change to put in your piggy bank." Lucas has never gone up the stairs so fast...LOL! :-)

New Year, New Funnies!

So, I've kind of fallen off of the blogging wagon. Sorry about that. There have been a few funny things said/done that I want to make sure to get down so I don't forget!

You need a bit of background for this to be funny. A friend gave me a holder for my scissors similar to this one. For Christmas, Lucas got a Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Santa. The other day Logan brought Woody to me and said, "Look, Momma. Woody has a scissor holder on his belt." Oh how I laughed!

We were at a friend's house on New Year's Eve. She recently got new furniture and Logan was admiring it. "Look! It even has butt holders!"

My husband is great about helping me clean house. Typically I keep things pretty straightened up during the week and on cleaning day, I dust and vacuum and wipe down the kitchen and he cleans the bathrooms and keeps the boys occupied. Well, Logan has been making a mess in the bathroom and we decided that he needed to start cleaning it up. I try really hard not to try to make my husband clean the way I do. I try to just let him do it and if I see something I want done, I'll just do it once he is finished. The way I have tried to start looking at it (took me a few years to get to this point) is that him cleaning it and me wanting to do a little more is still better than me doing all of it! Well, the other day my husband was showing Logan how to clean the bathroom and was telling him that when he makes a mess, now he'll have to clean the bathroom in the same manner that he was being shown. Logan was all excited about it and as his daddy was cleaning up, Logan kept pointing out more things to clean. Yep, Logan takes after his Momma in that department! :-) I also find it funny that at 8, cleaning the bathroom is fun. Of course, this morning he was cleaning the other bathroom and complaining about having to touch the toilet where the pee was. My husband told him that is why he will be cleaning the toilet. It is his pee and we don't want to touch it either! YUCK!