Menu Planning

Last night our family planned a month's worth of dinner menus.  I had everyone write down seven or more ideas on small papers and we put them in a bucket and drew out random ones.  Here is some of what we got (with original spelling):

TV Diners, and milk

Hard-boiled eggs, broccoli, strawberries

Pasta w/ Bolognese sauce (or simple marinara), Green salad w/ oil/vinegar dressing, Garlic Bread or Cheese bread or Bruschetta

Pancakes, surap, and milk

Kulslaw, slopy Joes, and milk

Grandma's Ultimate Spagetti with Garlic Bread

Grandma's great spegitti with salad

Chips and salsa with corn

Spaghetti with tomato soace, milk, corn

Make your one salid niete

Woffles, surap, and milk

Beef Stroganoff w/ thin-sliced beeeef!, corn, beans, a roll

Fruit salad

french toast, surap, milk, and powderd surger

neyncoyyo (?)

eggs on toast, clementines

craB cakes with tarter sas

macroned (macaroni and cheese)

fish sticks with ketchup, milk, and corn

chicken

toast with Mom's jam

botie pasta with garlick bread :)

ATK Tacos w: tomatoes, lettuce, guac, sour cream, black beans, mashed, arroz!(brown)

Tomato soup with grilled cheese and grilled tuna sandwiches

I see several trends here.  We want breakfast for dinner, corn for our vegetable, and we want lots of pasta.  And someone wants milk with every one of her dinners.  Interesting.

Peeping Hens

I heard some tapping at the back door, so I went to see what it was.  This is what I saw:

Left to right: Matilda, Daisy, Tulip and Pansy.

All that gross stuff on the window?  From the chickens.

Legos

This is what happens when the big boys play with Legos.  I'm thinking it may be worse than when the littlies get into them!

Nativity

Books

I love books.  I love to read them, hold them, smell them, use them in decorating, look at them.  I especially love old books and ones that have been owned by someone else before me.  I have found a great many books at thrift stores and library book sales.  It's a bit of a weakness, really.

These books are on my nightstand.  The one titled Mental Deficiency makes me chuckle when I see it.

Here are some other books around the house.

Here are some of our children's books.

Many of these have come from thrift stores and library sales.  I've been trying to find a lot of the ones I remember reading when I was younger.

It's especially fun to find an inscription or date and name of who owned the book.

This is in a book about mineralogy.

This was my grandmother's book.  It's nice to have her handwriting.

I love the names in this inscription.

So, there you go.  I love books!

Stuff around the house

Here are some of the things I've been working on around here lately:

Decorating for the holidays.

   

   

This was my first project using Mod Podge.





This was an idea I had for a while.  The flowers, stems and dirt are crocheted and the background is burlap.  I love the different textures.  It turned out really well!

I put the wood the music sheet wreath is on together out of a pallet I found under our stairs.

This room is what used to be the little girls' room downstairs.  It is now my "mom cave."

I crocheted this rug out of some French fabric from a neighbor.

Here's a sneak peek at some Christmas gifts for nieces and nephews in progress.  The wood owl holding envelopes is actually a napkin holder.  So cute!

The little girls are now in the old computer room.  I got the purple paint for free and the girls picked out the shelf and items on it at D.I.  I still have some things to do in here, so I won't show the rest of the room.

This is my nightstand.  I got it for $5 at D.I. and just love it!

If we have to have a gun safe in our bedroom, I might as well make it cute!

This is a wreath made out of jute and crocheted flowers.

This concludes the tour of our house.  As you can see, I love making things and using what I have and getting thrifted things for cheap!

I've taken a bunch of pictures of things around our house, i.e. Christmas decorations, newly-painted rooms, etc., for those who haven't seen them. It's time I start a blog, said Mary, so here goes.