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

LAST WEEK RECAPPED

GOOD MORNING We’ve been away at the family reunion and are headed home today, probably as you’re reading this 🙂 so it will be quick. We always do a shared photo album for all family members which currently has over 200 pictures in it and is still growing! I will pick just a couple for today and do a bigger post recapping our journeys later in the week.

Tomorrow is my birthday and what will I be doing? Traveling. Hubby and I try to plan trips over our birthdays, but for some reason mine always gets waylaid or messed up somehow like with this year’s family reunion that I now need a vacation from ~ it’s been a LONNNNNNNNG couple weeks. Oh well, we’re planning another trip to celebrate both our anniversary and my birthday next month.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

We are starting the day in the mid 90°’s, but it will be around 70° when we get home. We are really ready to get rid of the excessive heat we’ve been dealing with on this trip. It was 107° the day we got to the family reunion AND REALLY humid!!! We were not very happy campers, but it did cool down to the high 80°’s eventually and the humidity decreased a bit so it was tolerable for the rest of the trip. We actually had to grab jackets on Friday and Saturday evenings once the sun went down.

TO DO, APPOINTMENTS, DVR/TV & PROJECTS

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS, TRAVEL,  APPOINTMENTS, MENUS & DVR/TV

LAUNDRY & CLEANING I’ll have 2 weeks of road trip laundry to do on Wednesday and Thursday. GROCERIES & ERRANDS At some point I’ll have to head to town for a few groceries and will check the calendar for any appointments when we get home. PROJECTS & TRAVELS no projects this week and the travels will be over for a few weeks. 🙂 THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY Seeing the smiling faces of my littles nieces and nephews… family time… BIG hugs from loved ones I haven’t seen in a while…

READING TIME

I tried to read during the trip, but kept falling asleep as my head hit the pillow. I’ll work on reading THE BAKING GAMES by Rachel Hannah this week. We did listen to and AUDIBLE book on the way down 2 weeks ago and will start another one on the way home.

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀

	9/14 MONDAY	9/15 TUESDAY	9/16 WEDNESDAY	9/17 THURSDAY	9/18 FRIDAY	9/19 SATURDAY	9/20 SUNDAY
DINNER	on the road	FISH TACO BOWL @ BLACK-BLEU for birthday dinner	DONKEY BOWLS	CORN/YOYO I’m going to dinner and a play with my girlfriend whose birthday is next week so we celebrate together between our special days 🙂	BRAISED BEEF STEW & HERB BISCUITS	CORNED BEEF SANDWICHES with SMASHED PEA & BARLEY SOUP	SUNDAY SAUCE & MEATBALLS
DESSERT					HOW TO CATCH A HUSBAND CAKE

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

There are SOOOOOOOOOOOO many to edit yet, but here is a picture of me and some nieces. They are older than I am, but still call me auntie! Sometimes, it really freaks people out in public places 🙂 My one niece Toni is always great about doing something special for all our littles. This year she became the pied piper of spun sugar! She made regular and root beer flavored, both of which were HUGE hits!

INSPIRATIONS

LIFE TIP

HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP

COOKING THURSDAY RECIPES COMING UP THIS WEEK

• HAWAIIAN CHICKEN BOWLS
• HONEY LIME CHICKEN with PINEAPPLE MANGO SALSA

COOKING THURSDAY RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK

• NO BAKE LEMON STRAWBERRY DELIGHT
• MEXICAN STREET CORN CHICKEN PASTA SALAD
• PINEAPPLE SALSA CHICKEN VERDE ENCHILADAS
• TERIYAKI PINEAPPLE RICE STUFFED PEPPERS