Menu Plan Monday – November 7

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

Keith has lots of events this week so it will be just Brooke and me for dinner most nights. I considered using that as license to not do any planning but decided that probably isn’t a great idea. Then I thought I would plan mostly small, easy meals but realized then there might not be anything for Keith to eat when he finally got home. If I make the same meals I would normally, best case scenario is that he can warm it up when he gets home and worst case scenario will be that will have leftovers for lunch or another night.

Another reason I had no excuse to skimp on a plan this week, we didn’t get to all our planned meals last week. So I’m carrying over a couple of those to this week!

Cowboy Spaghetti
Goulash
Chicken Broccoli Rice Casserole
Mac n’ Cheese
Pumpkin Pancakes
Quesadillas or Grilled Cheese

How you do handle dinner time when its only you and the kiddo(s)?

Painfully Good Memory

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

We all have moments we wish we could forget when it comes to losing our cool with our kids (that’s not just me, right?).

We like to think that one incident will be easily forgotten in the grand scheme of your little one’s childhood.

And then your little darling gives you a play by play of your entire embarrassing outburst from the day before.

Guess some of those bad moments will stick and now that Brooke is older, it’s all the more reason to strive to have many more positive moments and keep those less than dignified ones few and far between.

Working Mommy Wednesday – Fall Colors

Posted on by Sarah Marshall


This week’s Working Mommy Wednesday prompt:
Show photos of autumn in your area.

I grew up in Michigan, where fall colors were prominent. Then for 6 years we lived in Texas where our seasons were scorching hot and hot. Not a lot of color change in the trees there. So I’ve absolutely embraced the transition from green to rich oranges, yellows and reds in the trees around us.

This photo is taken from my garage across the street of the pasture were we see cows grazing every day. This was a couple weeks ago and I wish I’d had time to take another one today because there are so many more colors now!
From my driveway