Monday Meanderings: November 12th Edition

It's 12:20 a.m. and technically not Monday any longer, but this is the first chance I've had to plan the rest of my week!

Monday Meanderings is a wonderful meme hosted weekly by Tiany. Please stop by and read what other homeschool moms have planned for this week as well!

My Bible reading for this week will center on the book of I Peter. I have seven more books of the Bible to read before the end of the year, with Revelation being the only long one. This is my first entire read through of the Bible - so I will be working more on specific studies next year.

My "Must Do's" of the week include finishing up my Term 2 Schedule for our school. On Ambleside the entire month of December is a vacation with the start of Term 2 the first week of January. We are going to start on December 3rd and go through the first two weeks of December before we start our vacation so we finish up in mid-June with my other two who are in public schools.

Other Must Do's include:

• Send out Netflix and update queue

• Bring blank cd's over to my sister so she can burn us a copy of Handel's Messiah and Josh Grobin's Christmas album (LOVE HIM! -- can you tell how old I am? I just said "album" *sigh*)
• Mail out bills
• Go to parent/teacher conferences for my older two on Thursday
• Finish reading "The Other Boleyn Girl" and start another book for the Fall Reading Challenge
• Send out order forms for bedroom quilt (so pretty) and scheduling book
  

Zone:

I haven't looked at the zone of the week and I am not sure what the FlyLady zone actually is. I think it is the bedroom -- but I am going to stray from my usual plan and go with the bathroom -- which needs a good scrubbing and some extra special attention!

Train Them Up:

I've been working on manners and 1st time obedience but NOT being consistent enough. That has always been my problem. I am going to single out 1st time obedience this week and really follow through!

Menu Plan:



Welcome to the week-before-Thanksgiving Menu Plan Monday! Thanks to Laura for hosting!

Our week is going to start out with a Mexican fiesta! I'll be making our favorite rice and beans and nachos with all the fixin's! This meal makes everyone in my family very happy!

I'll also be making Chicken Alfredo for my dh while the kids and I have dinner at my Mom's house. He'll have peas on the side.

I thought I would try this recipe that has been sitting in my Recipezaar cookbook for awhile now: Sesame Chicken Bites. I'll serve this over penne that has been mixed with a mushroom, garlic, and green onion saute in olive oil and soy sauce. Served with a green salad.

And since I found a great price on steak, I've decided to make the pepper steak that I posted about in Slow Cooking Thursday! We'll serve it over rice and have steamed broccoli on the side.

I have pork chops left over from last week so I am going to make this pork chops and rice casserole. It looks simple and very tasty!

I've also been meaning to try this hamburger soup. I listed it a couple of weeks back but didn't get around to making it. I'll have garlic toast and salad with this.

Finally, I'll be making my husband's favorite on another night we are at my mom's: sausage and fried potatoes w/ onion. Too greasy for my taste, but he LOVES it!

Lunches for the week will consist of grilled ham and cheese, black bean soup, ramen noodles w/ shrimp and lots of veggies, chicken noodle soup, and mac n cheese. Everything is served with a side of fruit and veggies and hopefully milk! (I try)

Breakfasts will be cereal w/ skim milk, toad-in-the-hole, bagels w/ ff cream cheese & apples, breakfast burritos, and my version of crunchy vanilla-almond french toast w/ sausage links.

This is a full menu for a very busy week, but I hope to be able to get around to cooking all of it! (Or at the very least, most of it!)

I pray your week is blessed!

Sherry