HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY and MENU PLANS week 26 of 2022

 Be sure to join us for Happy Homemaker Monday and link up with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

I had a busy and productive weekend despite the heatwave that descended on us this past week. Yesterday I volunteered at the Eagles cooking and serving brunch for new members and brainstorming with a friend on some new recipe ideas. I also got some indoor chores accomplished.

I hate to be the bearer of this news, but we are officially at the midway mark for 2022 and Christmas is only 181 days from Christmas. Which also means we’re only 187 days from the new year, 2023.

We began a heatwave over the weekend and while it isn’t as horrible as so many others are experiencing everywhere else in the country and the world or as bad as the southern California desert when I was a kid, it did happen literally overnight for us! Last weekend I needed a jacket when we went to dinner with our niece and her boyfriend. We went from early spring type temperatures to summer temperatures hitting triple digits yesterday in literally just days. We’re slated for the low to mid 90’s with lots of sunshine yet today and then it will incrementally drop back into the 70’s by next weekend. At least there’s no humidity to speak of. 😀

Mt heart hurts. 🙁 I don’t normally get political in these posts. I’m all about personal space and people doing what is right for themselves.

Personally, I DO NOT believe in abortion, BUT it is NOT my place to decide what is right for anyone else and in what instance! You can be both PRO LIFE and PRO CHOICE. So I don’t think the government (federal or state) having the control to make that decision for them is a good thing either. It’s a personal choice between a woman, her family and her doctor – there are too many gray areas…. We do not live in other people’s lives or bodies. I have enough trouble making the right decisions for myself… As a woman I can see the potential for so many other issues that women have been fighting against for so many years…

But! No matter your religious, moral or ethical beliefs… This isn’t ONLY about abortion…

Government control over personal rights and how you act/react on YOUR PERSONAL religious, moral or ethical beliefs… The biggest point to be had in the events from this week is that this is only the beginning of an agenda and that it opens MANY, MANY doors… doors that COULD send us spiraling backwards in society on soooooooooo many levels.

Between the political upheaval, COVID, earthquakes, floods, massive heat waves, spiraling economy and inflation… I PRAY we see relief from all of these things, but more importantly that people wake up and realize that we are NOT in control here and need to act accordingly… As I said, my heart just hurts 🙁

You guessed it 😀 … Hot water and peach yogurt.

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
  • LAUNDRY & CLEANING Finished the laundry over the ungodly hot weekend while staying indoors.
  • GROCERIES & ERRANDS I have a small list for this week, but will work it in with a doctor appointment this afternoon. I also have a painting class Saturday afternoon and have convinced hubby to tag along and do a date night.
  • PAPERWORK, PHONE CALLS & PROJECTS I need to update the quarterly follow-up for the yearly list I’m doing along with Jean to post on Friday. I’m finishing up a few pieces of correspondence that need followed up on also.
  • RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING Menus are done through July, but would like to find some fresh salads and new dressings/vinaigrettes for August.

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
  • NETFLIX Maze Runner – The Cure
  • DISNEY+ Doctor Strange Multiverse, FREE GUY with Ryan Reynolds
  • CABLE NASCAR races, Cooking Shows, The Haunting and a REALLY old black and white called Down Three Dark Streets with Broderick Crawford and HIGH SIERRA with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino

I finished the River’s End series and am reading Last Known Contact by the same author. I’m really enjoying her.

There are many photos I could post here, but today is and always will be a tough day for me as it is the anniversary of my dad’s death. He was gone WAY TOO young and has been for WAY TOO long now 🙁 so instead I’m posting this old favorite of mine that was taking many years before I was even born.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
DINNER
ENCHILADAS SUIZA
BBQ CHICKEN & CORN SALSA SLAW
C.O.R.N. CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT
CHILI & CORNBREAD
CHICKEN COBB SALAD & TWISTY ROLLS
C.O.R.N. CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT

 

BUFFALO CHICKEN MEATBALLS & HOT SLAW
DESSERT
 
BROWNIES?

  • OVEN BAKED CHICKEN & RICE with GRAVY
  • CILANTRO LIME CHICKEN THIGHS
  • BBQ MEATBALLS & BACON CHEDDAR BAKED POTATOES

  • TEX MEX BACON CHEESEBURGER BAKE
  • GARLIC BUTTER CHICKEN
  • SHEET PAN SWEET & SPICY BBQ CHICKEN
  • WINE MARINATED FROZEN GRAPES
  • TOMATO CUCUMBER SALAD
Lucie

Yay Christmas! need to get serious about homemade gifts.
Awful what this law will lead too…
QuiltLady – agree with you!

Hope you have a great week

Carrie@northwoods scrapbook

Hello my Love!
Thank you for saying out loud EXACTLY how I feel about Roe v Wade being overturned. I align with you 1000% I don’t think most people seek to have an abortion because it’s something they can’t wait to go do. It’s for the extreme situations when it’s really needed for health and safety (& sometimes economic) and it’s for a woman and her doctor. I actually feel personally offended as a woman because it feels like an attack saying that a woman doesn’t have the ability to make the right decision for herself. If this related to men you know there wouldn’t even be a law or an issue! And that makes me really angry if I’m honest. And I agree – it’s a slippery slope and all the other rights that could be taken away. We are not 2nd class citizens and the government shouldn’t treat us that way!
Thanks for letting me rant. And I hate getting political too. But I’m actually astounded it happened. I always love sharing this time and space with you. I LOVED the marinades and stole that. I hope you have a blessed week ahead Dear Tamy. xo

QuiltLady

Thank you so much for the rant! I really struggled with whether or not to share this or not. So much this. If someone has not been in this situation themselves, they CANNOT begin to understand the weight of the choices to be made, the heartbreak, the judgement of others… The fact that so many of the levels of this decision are really different things… until they’re not!

As someone whose miscarriage was incomplete and was causing hemorrhaging that was life altering though not yet threatening, the only answer the doctor prescribed was a DNC which by insurance is tagged also as an abortion. The grey areas are vast and insurance and such can be re-written at any time forcing doctors and medical facilities to change anything OR everything in how they treat patients now and/or in the future. Based on the changes abound I could have died waiting for someone to word it “correctly” if that were happening today. Fortunately, for me it was the late 80’s in California and the doctor was the one to say it was only a matter of time because there was barely a heartbeat and I was getting worse by the day…The doctor was able to help me make an informed decision… I CANNOT even imagine going through this now in Texas for example…

Thank you sweetie for letting me rant back.

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