HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY with MENU PLANS week 15 of 2022

Doing Happy Homemaker Monday so extensively helps keep me on track as it summarizes the past week and lays out a fairly concise plan for this week. Be sure to join us for Happy Homemaker Monday and link up with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

Hello there. I hope you all had a good week and spring has taken hold in your neck of the woods 😀 unlike here. I’m in spring cleaning mode myself trying to wait out mother nature 🙂

I found this funny on Facebook, but it fits so well! It has been a REALLY strange week – record heat (it was 88 last Thursday), wind, rain, hail, snow! And it looks like it isn’t over yet. That “S” word is still in the mix though it won’t be anything that sticks, but it’s still freezing almost every night. This time last year I had the garden planted and it was doing well. This year the starters are outgrowing the aero garden and yearning to go outside to play 🙂 I just hope the flower seeds I did plant when it got warm do make it.

Theraflu and cherry yogurt

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
  • LAUNDRY & CLEANING Just a couple loads of laundry, a bit of ironing and general cleaning this week.
  • GROCERIES & ERRANDS I need a few last minute things for Easter dinner and will make a run to town later this week after I get all my scraps of paper into a single list 😀
  • PAPERWORK, PHONE CALLS & PROJECTS Roofers will be here Monday FINALLY to finish repairs that began months ago! Dishwahser repairman will be here Tuesday – what a hassle using a warranty is when you’re not in a big city!
  • RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING Looking for some lighter spring recipes, but not getting too crazy until after we get back from the family reunion in May.

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
  • NETFLIX Captain Nova
  • DISNEY+ Hawkeye
  • CABLE Cooking shows: Tournament of Champions, Spring Easter Baking, Masterchef Jr., Beet Bobby Flay and Grocery Games Crime Dramas: Chicago series (Med, Fire & P.D.), NCIS (Original, L.A. & Hawaii), Bull, Law & Order (Original Remake and SVU), Magnum PI, Blue Bloods and FBI’s (Original, Most Wanted & International) Comedies: Young Sheldon & Ghosts and we’re trying the new How We Roll Hallmark/Movies: A Royal Runway Romance and When Calls the Heart Documentaries: Mysteries of the Abandoned

I finished Jana Deleon’s Flame & Fortune, book #22 of the Miss Fortune series – just a fun read. Hubby even enjoys the audibles when we travel. And I have begun In Name Only by Jennifer Peel – book #2 in her series and have The Girl From Channel Islands, a WWII historical novel by Jenny LeCoat waiting in the wings that I can’t wait to get to.

I had a painting class last week for a spring picture. I still want to do some tweaks and layers, but I’m pretty happy with it.

I also started a Ukranian Art in a Box painting and am doing many, many layers to finish it. I have just begun the yellow layers. The studio is donating the proceeds to a family living out of a bomb shelter.

And then the next night hubby and I took a Ricotta Cheese making class at a local winery and had a delicious Italian meal of Crispy Pinwheel Hot Jelly Ricotta appetizers, Garlic Bread, Salad, Lasagna and Raspberry Almond Ricotta Cake made with it.

And what do you do on a cold and rainy afternoon? Play Mexican train of course 😀

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
DINNER
CALABRIAN CHILE CHICKEN PASTA
HOT HONEY GLAZED PORK CHOPS
SEARED STEAKS WITH SOY GLAZE
C.O.R.N. CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT
CHICKEN SPAGHETTI & HOT HOUSE SALAD
CHEESY ARTICHOKE CHICKEN & 5 CHEESE PASTA
GLAZED HAM STEAKS, SCALLOPED POTATOES, GLAZED CARROTS
DESSERT
APPLE CRUMBLE for a friend’s birthday
LIMONCELLO CAKE
 

  • SWEET & SOUR BRISKET
  • CALABRIAN CHILE CHICKEN PASTA
Carrie@northwoods scrapbook

Hi my Lovely!
Sorry I’m late this week -it’s been a crazy one!
I love all the sunflower paintings, so beautiful and for a great cause. But the bike one is my favorite!
The menu from the ricotta class sounds AMAZING! Has my mouth watering.
And the mother nature funny is so dang TRUE!! Snowing here right now and I’m so over it!
Blessings on the weekend ahead and a Happy Easter xoxo

Jean

Love the sunflower paintings! Oh, now I want to go start some sunflower seeds 🙂 Our weather is up and down a bit still but luckily, I don’t see any of that awful s stuff in our forecasts. We’ve started playing Mexican train with my husband and his friends when we have our monthly get togethers, it’s fun! Hope you have a great rest of your week (and that spring finds it way to you for good and soon)

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