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HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY, MENU & RECIPES week 16 of 2025 ~ BLOG 365.111

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LAST WEEK RECAPPED

My week was busy, but fortunately calmed down on Saturday and I took it REALLY easy on Easter so I’m beginning to feel recharged and ready to hit the ground running this week. I was able to get caught up on many things FINALLY!

I hope everyone had a great holiday whether you celebrated Passover or Easter. Ours was really quiet. We had brunch with a few friends and laughed A LOT! We were supposed to have a fairly large dinner, but my step dad became sick and I didn’t want to expose any of mom’s elderly friends that I had invited to his illness. So I cut the ham in half and only made half the batches of everything else. I served my mom and step dad separately as I can’t be exposed either due to my own immuno-compromised system.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

Looks like spring is here to stay FINALLY!
MONDAY ~ 66/40
TUESDAY ~ 65/38
WEDNESDAY ~73/40
THURSDAY ~ 68/46
FRIDAY ~ 55/42 – RAIN
SATURDAY ~ 58/43 – RAIN
SUNDAY ~ 64/45

TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS

I’m going to do a bit of shopping for a few groceries today, doing the Eagle’s shopping on Wednesday, having lunch with a girlfriend on Thursday and going to the annual Quilt Show on Friday.
We’re planning the trip for the family reunion and another trip in June to go see our son and his wife in their new town in the MidWest.
We’ll be leaving on Mother’s Day for our family reunion trip so I’m NOT too concerned with meal planning or menus until we get back.
Call my hairdresser for another appointment and figure out why my hair won’t hold color? That beautiful color from last week is gone already despite using the specific shampoo she gave me 🙁

DVR/TV TIME

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV

We watched a few movies over the weekend on NETFLIX: LUCY, HOSTAGE and KRAVEN the HUNTER and I watched a few episodes of the latest season of SWEET MAGNOLIAS and LUCIFER.
We’re finishing cleaning up the DVR and just have a cooking shows to clean up.

READING TIME

My girlfriend and I were talking about book club and the direction it has taken. Neither of us are happy with the direction it has taken 🙁

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

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

	4/21 MONDAY	4/22 TUESDAY	4/23 WEDNESDAY	4/24 THURSDAY	4/25 FRIDAY	4/26 SATURDAY	4/27 SUNDAY
DINNER	CHILI BURGERS and COLESLAW	MEATLOAF, MASHED POTATOES with ROAST CARROTS	CORN/YOYO CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT or YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN	HALIBUT ENCHILADAS over CREAMY BUTTER PINTO BEANS	CORN/YOYO CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT or YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN	PARMESAN CHICKEN and SALAD	BAKED CHICKEN & FRIED CORN
DESSERT

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

Spring blooms are finally making an appearance around here. I LOVE these old antique German Bearded Iris bulbs I brought back from our old house in Michigan.

INSPIRATIONS

LIFE TIP

HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP

RECIPES COMING UP THIS WEEK

HAWAIIAN BANANA BREAD
BETTER THAN GRAMS TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE

RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK

TETRZZINI
SALSA VERDE PASTEL AZTECA

WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS

HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY, MENU & RECIPES week 15 of 2025 ~ BLOG 365.104

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LAST WEEK RECAPPED

I can’t believe we’re already half way through April!! I worked several events at the Eagle’s last week on top of my normal duties. It seems like every minute was spoken for. I did get the tomato seedlings planted and the wrought iron porch furniture painted with fresh Rustoleum™ to cover the winter rust that settled in.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

I’m afraid to trust the weather prediction! Supposedly it will NOT rain this week, just be cloudy and is supposed to be in the 60’s and low 70’s. We’ll see – yesterday it said it was going to be sunny all week and in the upper 70’s and 80’s – it changed that quickly!

It’s still supposed to be in the high 30’s at night so each day will take a while to warm up and the breeze has been down right cold. Even working up a sweat yesterday while taking care of very manual labor, the minute I quit working and stood still for five minutes I had to put my sweatshirt back on.

TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS

LAUNDRY & CLEANING I’m still working on de-cluttering and spring cleaning.
GROCERIES & ERRANDS I have early morning doctor appointments on BOTH Tuesday and Wednesday so will pick up what I need for Easter dinner and the errands at that time. I also have an Eagle’s meeting tonight.
RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING I have nothing planned past this week so really need to get that handled tonight.

DVR/TV TIME

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV

STREAMING We’re still working on GILMORE GIRLS at night. We’re thinking about getting a new streaming service and seeing some shows we’ve been wanting to watch.
CABLE The DVR is all but empty and most shows will be going on spring hiatus this week or next.

READING TIME

I need to start the book for book club, but right now I’m reading The Wyvern Protection Unit by C.D. Corri

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

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

	4/14 MONDAY	4/15 TUESDAY	4/16 WEDNESDAY	4/17 THURSDAY	4/18 FRIDAY	4/19 SATURDAY	4/20 SUNDAY
DINNER	MEATBALLS SANDWICHES	BLACKBERRY BAKED CHICKEN and FRIED CORN	YUMMY BALLS aka OLD FASHIONED PORCUPINE BALLS	CHICKEN PARMESAN	working at the EAGLES CHILI BURGERS	MEXICAN STUFFED PEPPERS	~EASTER~ PINEAPPLE GLAZED HAM, MASHED POTATOES, GLAZED CARROTS
DESSERT							APPLE WALNUT CARROT CAKE with CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

Worked at the cemetery yesterday to help my girlfriend and her hubby clean up the winter debris. We had an extremely stormy, windy and wet winter that took down a few of the BIG trees and tons of limbs that had to be cleaned up. I should have taken a picture of the burn pile that we’ll do later with hot dogs and marshmallows. 🙂 The burn pile is about 8 feet tall, 40 feet long and 20 feet wide! That doesn’t include the big tree pieces that she’s trying to give away for firewood.

Her family has “owned” the cemetery since 1926 and someone from her immediate family has been the caretaker ever since. Al and Mary Pepiot were her parents and she maintains the family plots. They sell affordable plots with deeds and each plot is maintained by that family, but she does the overall mowing and general clean-up of the overall cemetery.

I especially love her aunt’s headstone. One side looks so traditional and then the backside lists all the men she was married to over the years. The oldest headstone I could find was mid 1800’s. Unfortunately a few years back some teenagers went out and broke several of the older headstones 🙁

So I did the drastic change. It’s supposed to be a silver/gray sable combo. Unfortunately, my hair doesn’t take dye well and I’ll probably be back to my god given beach blonde within the month. Oh well.